Jacques Lacan

Women and femininity in psychoanalysis Jacques Lacan Yasaman Rafiei Prof: Nancy Frelick Span 501B Introduction One of the unclear and questionable subjects in psychoanalysis, from Freud to Lacan, is the psychology of women and femininity. Male-centered psychoanalysis, which with no doubt is a reflection of tradition, patriarchy, misogyny and women discrimination as a second gender,; is the most important factor that this theory is static and conservative despite some valuable revelation.

identification in regards to gender identity. Beginning with Chapter Twenty-two Silverman elaborates Lacan’s theory regarding semiotic linguistics and anthropology. In Chapter Twenty-two Silverman examines the delivery of Jacques Lacan’s theories, which mirror those of Freud. Lacan extends the works of Freud, “retaliating the works of Saussure and Levi-Strauss” (Silverman, 1999). Furthermore, Silverman utilizes the “Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis”, to describe Lacan’s seminars and writings

ideological conventions, and the acceptance of the law. Once the subject enters into language and accepts the rules and dictates of society, it is able to deal with others. The acceptance of language’s rules is aligned with the Oedipus complex, according to Lacan. The symbolic is made possible because of your acceptance of the Name-of-the-Father (the fundamental signifier which permits signification to proceed normally), those laws and restrictions that control both your desire and the rules of communication

be published in the influential British film journey screen. (Hein,2008) Her written views have achieved to shift the perception of film theories conventional structure known as psychoanalytic, which were written about by Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. Lacan was to have primarily came up with the theory and was originally identified as the “gaze”. His use was to define the anxious state that derives with the

concept of fragmented self was first introduced by Freud through his model of three part psyche, namely ego, id and super-ego, and later modified by Jacque Lacan, the famous postmodern psychoanalyst. The split of subject is one of the most appealing concepts in the postmodern literature. By assimilating the structure of unconscious to that of language, Lacan bridges between psychoanalysis and linguistics and hence makes a new interdisciplinary field of study. The splitting of self that Freud was considered

In Thomas Hardy’s aesthetic world ‘desire’ is not only an inevitable component, but it appears as a dominant dynamic of his creations. Especially in all the fourteen novels of Hardy, ‘desire’ is seen as a vital energy creating a new and a better realm of existence though its reverse turn is also apparent. In The Return of the Native (1878) desire works as a driving force as the narrative fabric of the novel manifests ‘desire’ with its manifold implications. In this novel ‘desire’ with its varied

3;as cited Chakraborty, n.d.). There are a few schools of literary theory, but this paper will analyze and discuss the psychoanalytic approach of Freud and Lacan as opposed to the liberal humanist idea of analysis. To begin with, the psychoanalytic approach is based on psychoanalysis itself and the main critics were Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan who agreed to a certain degree, that a text is fundamentally related with the psyche. Freud strongly believed that our unconscious is affected by events which

The Virgin Suicides and the Writing Self   Usually our voice for telling a story is our own writing self.  A person that understands the situation at hand and speaks in a manner relevant to the situation.  We don't normally create a separate narrator to make our writing more interesting.  We simply write our thoughts and opinions to convey our ideas.  But Jeffery Eugenides writing the Virgin Suicides brought out a separate part of himself to narrate for him.  An entirely fabricated

the desire to find that which we lack [in order to find] our selves whole again” (Lacan, 1989). In the story, because Leticia’s husband is not there to give her love and pleasure, she finds it elsewhere, thus she makes love with Hank. The absence of Hank then will hold Leticia back from being able to fulfill this need; thus refers to the idea that a woman is not able to be complete without a man. Lacan states that the notion of lack is tied to one’s existence in nature, where one longs for

Question 1: From a Marxist perspective, Herman Melville’s story “Bartleby the Scrivener” can be interpreted as a story proving that capitalism makes it unnecessarily difficult for its subjects to succeed, forcibly enslaves its subjects to its system, rids its subjects of aspirations and purpose due to the impossibility for creativity, and deceives its subjects into believing that money can alleviate emotional issues. Because both Bartleby and the narrator lose their professions during the course