Enjoy their symptom
Of woman, men and other interesting figures in Greek literary texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12247397 |
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| Authors | Angie Voela (King's College London, corresponding author), Maria Tamboukou (0000-0002-6380-4415, University of East London) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-100 |
| Publication date | 2004-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women a Cultural Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4042 • E-ISSN: 1470-1367 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0957404042000197206 |
| OpenAlex | W2031415331 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Voela and Tamboukou use Slavoj Žižek’s notion of the symptom as a lens through which to look at representations of female figures in Greek literary texts of the early twentieth century by Gregorios Xenopoulos. In mapping the construction of the figure of the modern woman in the matrix of discourses, fantasies and power relations of fin-de-siècle Greece, they draw on psychoanalytic insights, interrupted by Foucauldian interventions. Following Judith Butler’s move of making trouble they attempt to open up a dialogic space between psychoanalytic and Foucauldian approaches to the female subject, contextualized in a specific social, historical and cultural milieu. It is in this context that they discuss, first, how feminine and masculine subjectivities are represented in man’s speech; second, how unintended excesses and interruptions occur in the problematic representation of women; and, third, how madness and ultimately death come to play a significant role in the power relations between the sexes
Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Dialogic · Literature · Politics · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Representation (politics · Sociology · Subject (documents · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · History · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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