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Renaissance Madonnas and the Fantasies of Freud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Mary Bittner Wiseman
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Abstract

Through the work of Julia Kristeva, this paper challenges Freud's laws that everyone is always already gendered, that the mother is feminine and every infant masculine, and that one cannot love the same (gender). The figure of the Madonna, seen through the paintings of Giovanni Bellini, is used to theorize the time in the life of a child before Oedipus and to undo the conceptual knot with which Freud has bound the feminine to the maternal.

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Research Article
Information
Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993 , pp. 115 - 135
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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