Femininity and Psychoanalysis: Cinema, Culture, Theory

ISBN-13: 9781138500938 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 262 str.

Agnieszka Piotrowska; Ben Tyrer

Opis

This trans-disciplinary collection crosses boundaries between clinical and psychological discourse and arts and humanities fields to approach the topic of femininity from a variety of psychoanalytic perspectives. From object relations to queer theory, the essays here revisit and rethink the debates over what the feminine might be.

Spis treści

List of contributors;  Acknowledgements;  Introduction: Agnieszka Piotrowska and Ben Tyrer;  Chapter 1: Elizabeth Cowie, The certainties of difference and their difficulty: desire and the symptom;  Chapter 2: Davina Quinlivan, Her skin against the rocks, the rocks against the sky: revisiting Weir's Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975) after Morley’s The Falling (2014) and Freud’s fable of female hysteria;  Chapter 3: Caroline Bainbridge, Growing up girl in the ‘hood: vulnerability, violence and the girl-gang state of mind in Bande de Filles/Girlhood; Chapter 4: Vicky Lebeau, Revisiting Joan Riviere;  Chapter 5: Bracha L. Ettinger, Supplementary jouissance and feminine sexual rapport;  Chapter 6: Nava Dushi and Igor Rodin, Self-recreation through the uncanny encounter: reading the feminine close-up in cinema;  Chapter 7:  Allister Mactaggart, River's edge: the ebb and flow of feminine ex-sistence,  Chapter 8: Ben Tyrer, Under Her Skin: on Woman without body and body without Woman;  Chapter 9: Agnieszka Piotrowska and Joseph Jenner, Desire, commitment and the transformative power of touch: the posthuman femme fatale in Under the Skin;  Chapter 10: Wendy Leeks, AnnaMarilyn: queer tales of femininity;  Chapter 11: Sheila L. Cavanagh, Tiresias: Bracha L. Ettinger and the transgression with-in-to the Feminine;  Chapter 12: A. R. Price, A specimen of a commentary on Lacan’s ‘L’étourdit’;  Chapter 13: Agnieszka Piotrowska, A #MeToo moment in communist Poland: a short story;  Chapter 14: Pia Hylén, VuLNeRaBILITies;  Index