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Authors: Jacqueline Rose
ISBN-13: 9781844670581, ISBN-10: 1844670589
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton Client/Verso
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Jacqueline Rose

Jacqueline Rose is a Professor in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research is on modern literature, psychoanalysis, feminism and the political imagination; her books include The Question of Zion and On Not Being Able to Sleep.

Book Synopsis

Jacqueline Rose argues for the importance of sexual difference and fantasy as key concepts through which an interrogation of contemporary theory should be sustained.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Feminism and the Psychic1
Pt. 1Femininity and Representation25
Ch. 1Dora - Fragment of an Analysis27
Ch. 2Feminine Sexuality - Jacques Lacan and the ecole freudienne49
Ch. 3Femininity and its Discontents83
Ch. 4George Eliot and the Spectacle of the Woman104
Ch. 5Hamlet - the 'Mona Lisa' of Literature123
Ch. 6Julia Kristeva - Take Two141
Pt. 2The Field of Vision165
Ch. 7The Imaginary167
Ch. 8The Cinematic Apparatus - Problems in Current Theory199
Ch. 9Woman as Symptom215
Ch. 10Sexuality in the Field of Vision225
Bibliography235

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