Joseph C. Smith Carla J. Ferstman The Castration of Oedipus (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Castration of OedipusCondition: NewSubtitle: Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and FeminismISBN-10: 0814780180EAN: 9780814780183ISBN: 9780814780183Publisher: New York University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/01/1996Description: The intellectual movements of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism have redefined the ways in which we think about human experience. And yet, an integration of these movements has been elusive, if not impossible. In this landmark book, J.C. Smith and Carla J. Ferstman combine these disparate traditions to create a provocative, unified, and tightly woven perspective that transcends the misogyny implicit in much of Freudian psychoanalytic theory. The dialectics of domination and submission are central to Smith and Ferstman's argument. Men and women, they insist, must avoid the temptation to fetishize equality and recognize the roles of domination and submission in the human psyche, or, in Nietzsche's terms, the Will to Power. They argue that the unification of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism leads us to a shocking conclusion--that women and men cannot move beyond the suffering which so haunts the human condition, unless heterosexual men surrender the power that is causing their misery and affirm life by joyfully accepting domination by women. And women, conversely, must reaffirm their power by rejecting Oedipal genderization and embracing a liberating matriarchal consciousness and a matriphallic sexuality. A work of tremendous insight and extraordinary intellectual energy, The Castration of Oedipus will provoke strong reactions in all readers regardless of ideology.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 153mmAuthor: Joseph C. Smith, Carla J. FerstmanGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Gender Sex & RelationshipsType: Schools of ThoughtRelease Year: 1996 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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