Embodying the subject

Feminist theory and contemporary clinical psychoanalysis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4367256
AutoresMarc Lafrance (0000-0003-0349-2031, Concordia University, Montreal,, autor de correspondencia)
Año2007
Volumen8
Número3
Páginas263-278
Fecha de publicación2007-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700107082365
OpenAlexW2165817620
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas17

This paper presents a three-part reflection on the status of the lived body in feminist theory. In the first part, I argue that many influential feminist arguments have neglected questions of embodied experience. In the second part, I introduce the work of five clinically grounded psychoanalysts - Esther Bick, Frances Tustin, Donald Meltzer, Thomas Ogden and Didier Anzieu - while showing that it has much to offer those interested in making a critical return to the concrete specificities of the body. In the third part, I explore the work of feminist psychoanalyst Sue Grand. In doing so, I argue that reading feminist texts alongside clinical texts is a useful approach for thinking the subjective experience of bodily life

Aesthetics · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Feminist theory · Linguistics · Ogden · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology