The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism And Psychoanalysis

Plot

The Daughter's Seduction examines the relation between contemporary feminism and the psychoanalytical theories of Jacques Lacan. Through readings of the major texts that stand at the intersection of French psychoanalysis and feminism, it confronts boldly and directly such topics as sexual difference, desire, reading, writing, power, family, phallocentrism and language. In doing so, Jane Gallop not only illuminates current French psychoanalytic and feminist thinking, but also explores contemporary American and British thought.