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The engendering of female subjectivity

The engendering of female subjectivity The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 54, No. 2, 1994 Jane Van Buren Psychoanalytic theory has followed the arc of post-modernist culture in loosening its allegiances to nineteenth-century ideas about the role of bio- logical forces, including the making of sexual identity and what would be designated as gender. One of the main currents of modernism was the undoing of the hold of realism, an exercising of its mimetic functions, and the undermining of the belief in the solidity of the surface whether pre- sented on canvas, film, or in language. Postmodernism challenged the sta- bility or fixity of meanings and structures, postulating that meanings were always in the process of evolution and could be grasped only through the play of the signifier or the means of representation. Freud contributed to the zeitgeist of his time by continuing the spirit of the rebelliousness of the political revolutionaries and Romantic poets, and by posing scientific epistemology against superstition and traditionally based or rational systems of thought in religion and philosophy. Even more modernist, in keeping with the work of European painters, was his discov- ery of the manifest and latent levels of consciousness. Freud provided su- perb demonstrations of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

The engendering of female subjectivity

Van Buren, Jane
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis , Volume 54 (2): 17 – Jun 1, 1994
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Springer Journals
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1994 Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
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0002-9548
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The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 54, No. 2, 1994 Jane Van Buren Psychoanalytic theory has followed the arc of post-modernist culture in loosening its allegiances to nineteenth-century ideas about the role of bio- logical forces, including the making of sexual identity and what would be designated as gender. One of the main currents of modernism was the undoing of the hold of realism, an exercising of its mimetic functions, and the undermining of the belief in the solidity of the surface whether pre- sented on canvas, film, or in language. Postmodernism challenged the sta- bility or fixity of meanings and structures, postulating that meanings were always in the process of evolution and could be grasped only through the play of the signifier or the means of representation. Freud contributed to the zeitgeist of his time by continuing the spirit of the rebelliousness of the political revolutionaries and Romantic poets, and by posing scientific epistemology against superstition and traditionally based or rational systems of thought in religion and philosophy. Even more modernist, in keeping with the work of European painters, was his discov- ery of the manifest and latent levels of consciousness. Freud provided su- perb demonstrations of the

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Published: Jun 1, 1994

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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