Sex for Structuralists The Non-Oedipal Logics of Femininity and Psychosis /

• Main Author: de la Torre, Shanna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Sex (Psychology).; Gender expression.; Sexual behavior.; Sexual psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Gender Studies.; Sexual Behavior.; Personality and Social Psychology.

This book argues that structuralism makes itself useful when it engages with the non-Oedipal logics of femininity and psychosis. Building from the psychoanalytic belief that norms repress unconscious desire while structures open onto the creative resources of the symbolic, Sex for Structuralists loo...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Criteria of the Future
• 2. Primal Scene, Ground Zero: Lévi-Strauss, Lacan, and the Wolf Man beyond the Seduction
• 3. Madness and the Sensitive Anthropologist: Lévi-Strauss's New Structuralism
• 4. Two Traumas, Not One: The Feminine in Myth
• 5. The Mythologist's Aesthetic Task: Amelia
• 6. Sex for Structuralists: From Myth to Fantasy
• 7. How Do We Use Structuralism?.