Du rire à la joie : psychanalyse, féminisme et politique

Open to revision: this is Freud's expression to describe psychoanalytic theory. A few decades later, Lacan would speak of psychoanalysis in 'extension'. What happens when feminist approaches intersect with analytical practice and theory? This article proposes a study of the effects of...

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Published inCahiers du genre no. 68; pp. 191 - 293
Main Author Laufer, Laurie
Format Journal Article
LanguageFrench
Published Paris L'Harmattan 01.01.2020
Subjects
Disputes
Effects
Feminism
Happiness
Humor
Laughter
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic theory
Sexuality
Women
France
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Summary:Open to revision: this is Freud's expression to describe psychoanalytic theory. A few decades later, Lacan would speak of psychoanalysis in 'extension'. What happens when feminist approaches intersect with analytical practice and theory? This article proposes a study of the effects of this encounter that took place in the years following 1968, when the Women's Liberation Movement (MLF) emerged in France amidst the struggles and joyful effervescence of the time. In the context of disputes over the term "feminism" itself, the work of Antoinette Fouque and Monique Wittig, and the development of materialist and differentialist tendencies, psychoanalysis also became an object of debate. The discourse and theory of psychoanalysis on "the woman", "the feminine", "feminine sexuality", "the difference between the sexes" were revisited, challenged and discussed. The excitement and energy of the time opened new horizons and an extension for psychoanalysis, caught and exposed in the issues of the time.
ISSN:1298-6046
1968-3928