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Nice feminist critique of Freud, Plato, and others,
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This review is from: Speculum of the Other Woman (Paperback)
The first section is especially wonderful: a complete analysis of Freud's construction of women's sexuality and development. She has a great style with many a qwirk to keep you entertained. The second section includes free-form essays on Aristotle, Kant, Plato, Descartes and other representatives of the Western male philosophical canon. The last section is a complete analysis of Plato's Hystera. This is a good text for those of us who need to read the foundations of feminist thought . . . though some American feminists (such as myself) may find themselves annoyed with her "essentialism". Enjoy!
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Those unfamiliar with Plato, Descartes, Freud and Lacan will find great challenges in understanding this rather poetic book. Irigary examines these figures in light of the "symbolic order" to detail phallocentricism in the development of Western thought in general as well as psychoanalysis, revealing what is, according to the author, the nature of feminine sexuality and gender identity. Reading this text, written by a former student of Lacan's expelled over ideological differences, was transforming and has left a permanent perspective from which to percieve and critique philosophical arguments as well as science, medicine, and psychotherapy.
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How often do we miss these?,
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In the analysis of Freud in the first instance, many of the great western philosophers in the second, and Plato noch einmal in the third, we have the opportunity to note the "place" of women in our traditions with a view to how innane it all was. How often in reading the tradition do we miss the speculum of the man for what it was? How much effort would it be to always be aware of this?
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- Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Norton Library) by Sigmund Freud on page 31, and page 53
- Totem and Taboo (Great Minds Series) by Sigmund Freud on page 125
- The Philosophy Of Nature by Georg Hegel on page 41
- Lenin Collected Works V 2 by Vladimir Ilyi Lenin on page 122
- Philosophical Writings (Everyman Paperback Classics) by Leibniz on page 48
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- Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism by Somer Brodribb on 4 pages
- Arguing With the Phallus: Feminist, Queer and Postcolonial Theory: A Psychoanalytic Contribution by Jan Campbell on page 75, page 107, and page 128
- Robert Frost and a Poetics of Appetite (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Katherine Kearns in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Baudrillard's Challenge: A Feminist Reading by Victoria Grace on page 45, page 49, and Back Matter
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