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Mourning Freud analyses Freud's experiences and theories of
mourning as the basis for exploring changes in psychoanalytic
theories and practices over the course of the 20th century. The
modernist Freud of the early 20th century has ceded to the
postmodern Freud of the 21st. Madelon Sprengnether examines this
phenomenon from the perspective of Freud's self-analysis in
relation to his generation of theory, the challenges and
transformations wrought by feminism, cultural studies and
postmodernism, and the speculations of contemporary neuroscience
concerning the unreliability of memory. She offers a significant
interpretation of major biographical episodes in Freud's life,
arguing that Freud's inability to mourn the losses of his early
life shaped his theories of mourning, which in turn opened the
field of pre-oedipal studies to his successors, enabling a host of
new psychoanalytic theories such as object relations,
intersubjective and countertransference theories, Lacanian
analysis, and trauma theory. Many of these approaches converge on
the formulation of mourning as critical to the process of ego
development. Through this argument, Sprengnether traces the shift
from modernism to postmodernism-from an emphasis on mastery to
vulnerability, from vertical to horizontal systems of
meaning-making, and from what is representable in words to the
realm of the nonverbal. Mourning Freud, by exploring Freud's own
struggles with mourning, allows us, in turn, to mourn him-releasing
him from frozen idealization while demonstrating the relevance of
his work to the 21st century.
Mourning Freud analyses Freud's experiences and theories of
mourning as the basis for exploring changes in psychoanalytic
theories and practices over the course of the 20th century. The
modernist Freud of the early 20th century has ceded to the
postmodern Freud of the 21st. Madelon Sprengnether examines this
phenomenon from the perspective of Freud's self-analysis in
relation to his generation of theory, the challenges and
transformations wrought by feminism, cultural studies and
postmodernism, and the speculations of contemporary neuroscience
concerning the unreliability of memory. She offers a significant
interpretation of major biographical episodes in Freud's life,
arguing that Freud's inability to mourn the losses of his early
life shaped his theories of mourning, which in turn opened the
field of pre-oedipal studies to his successors, enabling a host of
new psychoanalytic theories such as object relations,
intersubjective and countertransference theories, Lacanian
analysis, and trauma theory. Many of these approaches converge on
the formulation of mourning as critical to the process of ego
development. Through this argument, Sprengnether traces the shift
from modernism to postmodernism-from an emphasis on mastery to
vulnerability, from vertical to horizontal systems of
meaning-making, and from what is representable in words to the
realm of the nonverbal. Mourning Freud, by exploring Freud's own
struggles with mourning, allows us, in turn, to mourn him-releasing
him from frozen idealization while demonstrating the relevance of
his work to the 21st century.
That literature is a form of social action has been an implicit
assumption of feminist literary criticism since its emergence in
academia some twenty-five years ago. This assumption has served not
only to heighten the awareness of gender construction and response
in literature, but also to redefine the process and goals of
literary criticism itself.
Three powerful interviews with writers of different nationalities
(Audre Lorde, Simone de Beauvoir, and Carmen Naranjo) introduce
topics echoed in the essays that follow: the interplay between
women's writing and feminist theory, the politics of writing, and
the roles of race, class, and sexual orientation in artistic
production. These issues are engaged on a theoretical level by
three essays that represent today's most prominent areas of concern
for feminist literary criticism. The theoretical perspectives
advanced in this anthology provide models for reading the
traditional expressions of women worldwide including oratory and
performance as well as literature in the more conventional sense.
Contributors include Jane Flax on "Postmodernism and Gender
Relations in Feminist Theory," Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham on
"African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race,"
Paula Bennett on "Female Sexual Imagery and Feminist Psychoanalytic
Theory," Leslie Rabine on "Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the
Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston," Joyce Zonana on "Feminist
Orientalism and the Structure of Jane Eyre," Jane Desmond on
"Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's 'Radha' of 1906," Terri
Brint Joseph on "Poetry as a Strategy of Power: The Case of Riffian
Berber Women," Chikwenye Ogunyemi on "The Contemporary Black Female
Novelin English," and Sandra Zagarell on "Narrative of Community."
This collection is especially appropriate for scholars and students
of feminist literary criticism, women's studies, English, and
ethnic studies.
Essays were originally published in Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society.
That literature is a form of social action has been an implicit
assumption of feminist literary criticism since its emergence in
academia some twenty-five years ago. This assumption has served not
only to heighten the awareness of gender construction and response
in literature, but also to redefine the process and goals of
literary criticism itself.
Three powerful interviews with writers of different nationalities
(Audre Lorde, Simone de Beauvoir, and Carmen Naranjo) introduce
topics echoed in the essays that follow: the interplay between
women's writing and feminist theory, the politics of writing, and
the roles of race, class, and sexual orientation in artistic
production. These issues are engaged on a theoretical level by
three essays that represent today's most prominent areas of concern
for feminist literary criticism. The theoretical perspectives
advanced in this anthology provide models for reading the
traditional expressions of women worldwide including oratory and
performance as well as literature in the more conventional sense.
Contributors include Jane Flax on "Postmodernism and Gender
Relations in Feminist Theory," Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham on
"African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race,"
Paula Bennett on "Female Sexual Imagery and Feminist Psychoanalytic
Theory," Leslie Rabine on "Social Gender and Symbolic Gender in the
Writings of Maxine Hong Kingston," Joyce Zonana on "Feminist
Orientalism and the Structure of Jane Eyre," Jane Desmond on
"Cultural Imperialism and Ruth St. Denis's 'Radha' of 1906," Terri
Brint Joseph on "Poetry as a Strategy of Power: The Case of Riffian
Berber Women," Chikwenye Ogunyemi on "The Contemporary Black Female
Novelin English," and Sandra Zagarell on "Narrative of Community."
This collection is especially appropriate for scholars and students
of feminist literary criticism, women's studies, English, and
ethnic studies.
Essays were originally published in Signs: Journal of Women in
Culture and Society.
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