TY - BOOK ID - 18374154 TI - The Castration of Oedipus : Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, and Feminism AU - Smith, Joseph C., AU - Ferstman, Carla J., PY - 1996 SN - 0814780180 0814780199 0814788947 PB - New York, NY : New York University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Feminist theory. KW - Postmodernism. KW - Psychoanalysis and feminism. KW - Feminism--Philosophy KW - Feminist sociology KW - Feminist theory KW - Feministische theorie KW - Filosofie van het postmodernisme KW - Philosophie postmoderniste KW - Postmodernism KW - Postmodernisme KW - Postmodernisme (esthétique) KW - Postmodernisme (filosofie) KW - Postmodernisme (philosophie) KW - Psychanalyse et féminisme KW - Psychoanalyse en feminisme KW - Psychoanalysis and feminism KW - Theory of feminism KW - Théorie féministe KW - Feminism and psychoanalysis KW - Feminism KW - Feminist philosophy KW - Post-modernism KW - Postmodernism (Philosophy) KW - Arts, Modern KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Post-postmodernism KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:18374154 AB - The intellectual movements of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism have redefined the ways in which we think about human experience. And yet, an integration of these movements has been elusive, if not impossible. In this landmark book, J.C. Smith and Carla J. Ferstman combine these disparate traditions to create a provocative, unified, and tightly woven perspective that transcends the misogyny implicit in much of Freudian psychoanalytic theory. The dialectics of domination and submission are central to Smith and Ferstman's argument. Men and women, they insist, must avoid the temptation to fetishize equality and recognize the roles of domination and submission in the human psyche, or, in Nietzsche's terms, the Will to Power. They argue that the unification of psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and feminism leads us to a shocking conclusion--that women and men cannot move beyond the suffering which so haunts the human condition, unless heterosexual men surrender the power that is causing their misery and affirm life by joyfully accepting domination by women. And women, conversely, must reaffirm their power by rejecting Oedipal genderization and embracing a liberating matriarchal consciousness and a matriphallic sexuality. A work of tremendous insight and extraordinary intellectual energy, The Castration of Oedipus will provoke strong reactions in all readers regardless of ideology. ER -