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Interpretation of the Flesh

Freud and Femininity

Interpretation of the Flesh
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The Interpretation of the Flesh unites the Lacanian and Kleinian object-relations theories used in feminist debates on psychoanalysis today. It does so as it dissects Freud's writings, proposing a solution to his riddle of femininity. The solution depends upon unravelling Freud's neglected if confused theories of psychical energy, while discarding the assumption that the `subject' is energetically and emotionally self-contained. In this, Teresa Brennan offers a new way of thinking about the relationship between the psychical, the social and the physical. More than this: The Interpretation of the Flesh shows how `femininity' is a literal physical weight on the shoulders of those who carry it, and how that weight might be lifted.
Routledge; September 1992
285 pages; ISBN 9780203011102
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