The Castration of Oedipus

The Castration of Oedipus
Author :
Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 328
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780814780190
ISBN-13 : 0814780199
Rating : 4/5 (199 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Castration of Oedipus by : Joseph C. Smith

Download or read book The Castration of Oedipus written by Joseph C. Smith and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


The Castration of Oedipus Related Books

The Castration of Oedipus
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Joseph C. Smith
Categories: Health & Fitness
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-03 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The intellectual movements of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism have redefined the ways in which we think about human experience. And yet, an integrat
The Castration of Oedipus
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Joseph C. Smith
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-03 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The intellectual movements of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism have redefined the ways in which we think about human experience. And yet, an integrat
The Castration of Oedipus
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Joseph C. Smith
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-03-01 - Publisher: NYU Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The intellectual movements of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism have redefined the ways in which we think about human experience. And yet, an integrat
Oedipus
Language: en
Pages: 139
Authors: Juan-David Nasio
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-01 - Publisher: SUNY Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

First English translation of Nasio's groundbreaking work on the Oedipus complex.
The Oedipus Complex
Language: en
Pages: 84
Authors: Seymour Keitlen
Categories: Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-11 - Publisher: Virtualbookworm Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This small text is a study of the Oedipus Complex in the work of Sigmund Freud, creator of psychoanalysis. The Oedipus Complex is a theory about the mental life