Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- PART I PIONEERS AND PROTOFEMINISM
- PART II CREATING A FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM
- PART III POSTSTRUCTURALISM AND BEYOND
- Introduction to Part III
- 12 Feminist criticism and poststructuralism
- 13 Feminist criticism and psychoanalysis
- 14 French feminist criticism and writing the body
- 15 Postcolonial feminist criticism
- 16 Feminist criticism and queer theory
- 17 Feminist criticism and technologies of the body
- Postscript: flaming feminism?
- Index
- References
13 - Feminist criticism and psychoanalysis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- PART I PIONEERS AND PROTOFEMINISM
- PART II CREATING A FEMINIST LITERARY CRITICISM
- PART III POSTSTRUCTURALISM AND BEYOND
- Introduction to Part III
- 12 Feminist criticism and poststructuralism
- 13 Feminist criticism and psychoanalysis
- 14 French feminist criticism and writing the body
- 15 Postcolonial feminist criticism
- 16 Feminist criticism and queer theory
- 17 Feminist criticism and technologies of the body
- Postscript: flaming feminism?
- Index
- References
Summary
Feminism, psychoanalysis and literary interpretation have more in common than their early histories might seem to suggest – or promise. Each of these intellectual and socially engaged activities is based on premises (about text, psyche and culture) that undermine familiar or received wisdom. At times, they seem to ignore one another, but often they have coincided – and collided – in startling and productive ways. What follows is an overview of a challenging set of engagements – beginning with Freud's analyses of female hysterics in the 1890s, continuing into the 1920s with the first wave of feminist encounter with Freud, jumping to the early second-wave critique of Freud's oedipal phallocentrism, then moving to an interrogation of the possibilities of pre-oedipal subversion into something that we might describe as our current decentred, post-Freudian, post-postmodernist era.
STORIES OF ORIGIN
The story of psychoanalysis, insofar as it may be said to begin with Freud's co-authored Studies on Hysteria (1895/1986), may also be said to begin with a woman – referred to as Anna O. in the case history reported by Freud and his mentor Josef Breuer. Anna O., who suffered from partial paralysis and aphasia (an inability to speak in her native German, though she was capable of speaking English, French and Italian), is described by Freud and Breuer as effecting her own cure by freely associating each of her symptoms to their point of origin in her conflicted feelings about nursing her father in his last illness.
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