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Lacanian Psychoanalysis and French Feminism: Toward an Adequate Political Psychology∗

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Dorothy Leland
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Abstract

This paper examines some French feminist uses of Lacanian psychoanalysis. I focus on two Lacanian influenced accounts of psychological oppression, the first by Luce Irigaray and the second by Julia Kristeva, and I argue that these accounts fail to meet criteria for an adequate political psychology.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 3 , Issue 3: Special Issue: French Feminist Philosophy , Winter 1988 , pp. 81 - 103
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Copyright © 1988 by Hypatia, Inc.

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∗

I thank Sandra Bartky, Nancy Fraser, Terry Winant, and Iris Young for encouraging me to write this paper.

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