Sexual difference, abjection and liminal spaces: a psychoanalytic approach to the abhorrence of the feminine

"This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways in which sexual difference can be understood as an encounter with otherness through the abjected, investigating social discourses and unconscious anxieties around 'monstrous' women throughout history and how they may ch...

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1. Verfasser: Morris, Bethany (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
Schriftenreihe:Lines of the symbolic series in psychoanalysis
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Zusammenfassung:"This book uses an interdisciplinary approach to explore the ways in which sexual difference can be understood as an encounter with otherness through the abjected, investigating social discourses and unconscious anxieties around 'monstrous' women throughout history and how they may challenge these characterisations. Approaching the concept of the Borderline from a critical and transdisciplinary perspective, this text will appeal to postgraduate students and researchers from Lacanian psychoanalysis, gender studies, cultural studies and critical psychology"--
Beschreibung:xiii, 141 Seiten
ISBN:9780367173395
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