Authors: Jacqueline Rose
ISBN-13: 9781844670581, ISBN-10: 1844670589
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Norton Client/Verso
Date Published: January 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)
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.
Jacqueline Rose argues for the importance of sexual difference and fantasy as key concepts through which an interrogation of contemporary theory should be sustained.
Acknowledgements | ||
Introduction: Feminism and the Psychic | 1 | |
Pt. 1 | Femininity and Representation | 25 |
Ch. 1 | Dora - Fragment of an Analysis | 27 |
Ch. 2 | Feminine Sexuality - Jacques Lacan and the ecole freudienne | 49 |
Ch. 3 | Femininity and its Discontents | 83 |
Ch. 4 | George Eliot and the Spectacle of the Woman | 104 |
Ch. 5 | Hamlet - the 'Mona Lisa' of Literature | 123 |
Ch. 6 | Julia Kristeva - Take Two | 141 |
Pt. 2 | The Field of Vision | 165 |
Ch. 7 | The Imaginary | 167 |
Ch. 8 | The Cinematic Apparatus - Problems in Current Theory | 199 |
Ch. 9 | Woman as Symptom | 215 |
Ch. 10 | Sexuality in the Field of Vision | 225 |
Bibliography | 235 |