Overview
- Makes a critical and timely intervention into the fields of feminist and psychoanalytic theory
- Bridging the gap between transgender studies and Lacanian psychoanalysis
- Aims at reviving interest in structuralism through re-readings of the foundational texts of Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Offers an uncompromising defense of Sigmund Freud’s invention in an era of increasing interest in neuroscientific approaches that efface what is unique to psychoanalysis
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About the author
Shanna de la Torre is a social worker in practice in Minnesota, USA. She received her MSW from the University of Minnesota and her PhD in Romance Studies from Cornell University, USA. Her writings have appeared in differences: A Feminist Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Transgender Studies Reader, Volume 2, and TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sex for Structuralists
Book Subtitle: The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis
Authors: Shanna de la Torre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92895-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-92894-4Published: 17 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06541-6Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-92895-1Published: 03 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 134
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gender Studies, Sexual Behavior, Personality and Social Psychology