The Logic of Sexuation: From Aristotle to Lacan

The Logic of Sexuation: From Aristotle to Lacan

by Ellie Ragland
The Logic of Sexuation: From Aristotle to Lacan

The Logic of Sexuation: From Aristotle to Lacan

by Ellie Ragland

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Overview

2004 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

In The Logic of Sexuation, Ellie Ragland offers a detailed account of Jacques Lacan's theories of gender, sexuality, and sexual difference. Exploring Lacan's rereading (via Aristotle) of Freud's major essays on feminine sexuality, Ragland demonstrates that Lacanian theory challenges essentialist notions of gender more effectively than do current debates in gender studies, which are typically enmeshed in an imaginary impasse of one sex versus or interchanged with the other. Although much American feminist thought on Lacan has portrayed him as anti-Woman, Ragland argues that Lacan was, in fact, pro-Woman, as he felt that no advances in analytic cure, or in thinking itself, could evolve except by embracing the feminine logic of the "not all," with its particular modes of jouissance. Ragland also aims to make sense of the terms phallus, castration, sexuation, the object a, jouissance, and so on, in relation to the question of sexual difference. In doing so, she uncovers Lacan's theory that the learning of sexual difference is what makes it possible to think dialectically at all.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780791485149
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 02/01/2012
Series: SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 228
File size: 947 KB

About the Author

Ellie Ragland is Professor of English and Literary Theory at the University of Missouri. She is the author or editor of several books, including, Critical Essays on Jacques Lacan.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

1. "On the Signification of the Phallus" (1958) According to Lacan

2. Freud's "Female Sexuality" (1931) and "Femininity" (1932): Oedipus Revisited via the Lacanian Pre-Oedipus

3. Feminine Sexuality, or Why the Sexual Difference Makes All the Difference: Lacan's "For a Congress on Feminine Sexuality" (1958)

4. A Rereading of Freud's 1925 Essay: "Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes" through Lacan's Theory of Sexuation

5. The Place of the Mother in Lacanian Analysis: Lacan's Theory of the Object, or Castration Rethought

Conclusion

Notes

Index

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