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The Interpretation of the Flesh: Freud and Femininity

The Interpretation of the Flesh: Freud and Femininity

by TeresaBrennan (Author)

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    Paperback 1992

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Synopsis

The `riddle of femininity', like Freud's reference to women's sexuality as a `dark continent', has been treated as a romantic aside or a sexist evasion, rather than a problem to be solved. In this first comprehensive study, Teresa Brennan suggests that by placing these theories in the context of Freud's work overall, we will begin to understand why femininity was such a riddle for Freud.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 286
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 17 Sep 1992
ISBN 10: 0415074495
ISBN 13: 9780415074490

Media Reviews
Teresa Brennan has written a challenging book, erudite and spirited.
-Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
The scholarship of this book is outstanding; but more importantly, it is a necessary guide to survival in any world where masculinity reigns.
-Linda Nicholson
This book has the clarity and wit that only great learning can achieve. Brennan confronts the toughest questions raised by Freud's theory of femininity, takes a stand in the history of the feminist debate, sweeps from the familiar to the erudite, and delivers a text that is essential reading.
-Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
This is a landmark in the encounter between psychoanalysis and feminism. Brennan not only brings an exacting critical intelligence to bear on all crucial Freud texts, but provides a fearless, original answer to Freud's riddle of femininity.' Her book will change the terms in which a major theoretical debate is conducted.
-Malcolm Bowie, University of London