Arguing With The Phallus: Feminist, Queer And Postcolonial Theory: A Psychoanalytic Contribution; Author: Campbell, Jan; Paperback (C Format)

Author: Campbell, Jan
Paperback (C Format); Bibliography, Index
256 pages
Published: May 2000
Zed Books
ISBN: 1856494446

What can psychoanalysis offer contemporary arguments in the fields of Feminism, Queer Theory and Post-Colonialism? Jan Campbell introduces and analyses the way that psychoanalysis has developed and made problematic models of subjectivity linked to issues of sexuality, ethnicity, gender, and history. Via discussions of such influential and diverse figures as Lacan, Irigaray, Kristeva; Dollimore, Bhabha, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker, Campbell uses psychoanalysis as a mediatory tool in a range of debates across the human sciences, while also arguing for a transformation of psychoanalytic theory itself.The contribution of psychoanalysis to theories in feminism, gay and lesbian studies and postcolonialism is evaluated here, along with a possibility of renegotiation of the symbolic system of psychoanalysis as a valuable method of interpreting cultural theory.