Sweet Little Deaths of Everyday Life - A Psychoanalytic Study on the Feminine

ISBN-13: 9783639011012 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 116 str.

Vaia Tsolas

Opis

This book explores the potentiality of enjoyment of the feminine (Feminine Jouissance) in the form of sweet little deaths of everyday life- instances of losing ones mind in the intensity of pure excess in being- and the significance of these ruptures, irregularities, breaks in signification, in their potency to create something radically Other. The feminine as a mode of being based on a different logic of expression is irreducible to a specific gender or sex regardless of anatomical or gender differences. Feminine invokes a different logic that bespeaks movement and presents an openly fluid subjectivity by capturing the simultaneity of both centering and perpetual de-centering and divergence from itself. This work has two scopes; the theoretical and the clinical elaboration of Feminine Jouissances current uses in Lacanian and post-Lacanian thought. The theoretical section examines the relationship of the feminine to radical Otherness embodied in any form of border-crossing, border-linking (such as in immigration and being in love). In the clinical, a single clinical case is presented, to exemplify the impossibility of such integration and domestication of the feminine.

O autorze

Tsolas, Vaia Vaia Tsolas, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who lives and practices in NYC. She is a psychoanalyst in training at Columbia University. Dr. Tsolas is the winner of the 2007 Sacerdoti Prize. She was born in Greece and immigrated to the USA in her adult life. Dr. Tsolas has focused her work on issues of Otherness at the level of the body as well as at the societal. She specializes in student populations and feminine issues.