7AAFM068 French Psychoanalytic Theory after 1945
Primary texts:
Luce Irigaray, Ce Sexe qui n’en est pas un (Paris: Minuit, 1977)
Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which is Not One (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985)
Julia Kristeva, Pouvoirs de l’horreur (Paris: Seuil, 1980)
Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection (New York: Columbia
UP, 1982)
Jaques Lacan, Encore: le Séminaire XX (Paris: Seuil, 1975)
Jacques Lacan, Encore: The Seminar XX, trans. B Fink (New York: Norton,
1998)
Other psychoanalytic writing
Sigmund Freud, The Penguin Freud Library 7: On Sexuality (London:
Penguin, 1991)
Sigmund Freud, The Penguin Freud Library 11: On Metapsychology (London:
Penguin, 1991), especially ‘Mourning and Melancholia’, ‘Beyond the
Pleasure Principle’, ‘The Economic Problem of Masochism’, ‘The Ego and
the Id’, ‘Instincts and their Vicissitudes’
Sigmund Freud, The Penguin Freud Library 12: Civilisation, Society and
Religion (London: Penguin, 1991)
Luce Irigaray, Speculum de l’autre femme (Paris: Les Editions de Minuit,
1974)
Julia Kristeva, Desire in Language, ed. Leon Roudiez (New York: Columbia
UP, 1980)
Julia Kristeva, Histoires d’amour (Paris: Denoël, 1983)
Jacques Lacan, Ecrits, 2 vols (Paris: Seuil, 1966)
Jacques Lacan, Les Quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse: le
séminaire XI (Paris: Seuil, 1973)
Jacques Lacan, Le Séminaire VII: l’éthique de la psychanalyse (Paris: Seuil,
1986)
Further reading:
Maggie Berg, ‘Luce Irigaray’s “Contradictions”: Poststructuralism and
Feminism’, Signs , 17 (1991), 50-70
Malcolm Bowie, Lacan (London: Fontana, 1991)
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
(London and New York: Routledge, 1990)
Joan Copjec, Read my Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists (Cambridge Ma:
MIT Press, 1995)
David Crownfield (ed.), Body/Text in Julia Kristeva (Albany: SUNY, 1992)
Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. (Durham NC;
Duke University Press, 2005)
Dylan Evans, Critical Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis (London:
Routledge, 2001)
Bruce Fink, The Lacanian Subject (Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996)
Shoshana Felman (ed.), Literature and Psychoanalysis (Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press , 1982)
Patrick ffrench, The Time of Theory: A History of Tel Quel (Oxford: OUP,
1996)
John Fletcher and Andrew Benjamin (eds.), Abjection, Melancholia and Love:
the Work of Julia Kristeva (London and New York: Routledge, 1990)
Diana Fuss, Essentially Speaking: Feminism, Nature and Difference (London
and New York: Routledge, 1990)
Jane Gallop, ‘ “Quand nos lèvres s’écrivent”: Irigaray’s Body Politic’, Romanic
Review, 74 (1983), 77-83
John Lechte, Julia Kristeva (London: Routledge, 1990)
Juliet Mitchell, Psychonalysis and Feminism: a Radical Reassessment of
Freudian Psychoanalysis (Harmondsworth: Allen Lane, 1974)
Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose (eds.), Feminine Sexuality: Jacques
Lacan and the école freudienne (London: Macmillan, 1982)
Toril Moi, Sexual/ Textual Politics (London and New York: Methuen, 1985)
Toril Moi (ed.), The Kristeva Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986)
Kelly Oliver, Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writings (New
York and London: Routledge, 1993)
Jean-Michel Rabaté, The Cambridge Companion to Lacan (Cambridge: CUP,
2003)
Susan Sellers, Language and Sexual Difference: Feminist Writing in France
(London: McMillan, 1991)
Anne-Marie Smith, Julia Kristeva: Speaking the Unspeakable (London: Pluto
Press, 1998)
Margaret Whitford, Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine (London:
Routledge, 1991)
Margaret Whitford (ed.) The Irigaray Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1991)
Elisabeth Wright, Psychoanalytic Criticism (London: Methuen, 1984)
Elizabeth Wright (ed.), Feminism and Psychoanaysis: a Critical Dictionary
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1992)
Slavoj Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology (London: Verso, 1989)
Slavoj Žižek, Enjoy Your Symptom! Jacques Lacan in Hollywood and Out
(New York and London: Routledge, 1992)
Alenka Zupancic, Ethics of the Real (London: Verso, 2000)
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