Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation

by Joan Copjec

Book Overview

A psychoanalytic and philosophical exploration of sublimation as a key term in Jacques Lacan's theories of ethics and feminine sexuality.

Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of feminine sexuality, including the infamous proposition, "the Woman does not exist," constituted a revision of his earlier work on "the ethics of psychoanalysis." In Imagine There's No Woman, Joan Copjec shows how Freud's ragtag, nearly incoherent notion of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262532700
• ISBN13: 9780262532709
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher