Jill Gentile, Michael Macrone

Feminine Law (eBook, ePUB)

Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire explores the conjunction between psychoanalysis and democracy, in particular their shared commitments to free speech. In the process, it demonstrates how lawful constraints enable an embodied space or "gap" for the potentially disruptive but also liberating and novel flow of desire and its symbols. This space, intuited by the First Amendment as it is by Freud's free association, enables personal and collective sovereignty. By naming a "feminine law," we mark the primacy a space between the conceivable and the inconceivable, between knowledge and mystery. What do political free speech and psychoanalytic free association have in common, besides the word "free"? And what do Sigmund Freud and Justice Louis Brandeis share besides a world between two great wars? How is the female body a neglected key to understanding the conditions and contradictions of free discourse? Drs. Jill Gentile and Michael Macrone take up these questions, and more, in their wide-ranging, often passionate exploration of the hidden legacy of Freud and the Founding Fathers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429913686
• Artikelnr.: 59648494

Autorenporträt

Jill Gentile

Inhaltsangabe

About the Authors
Preface
Introduction
The space between
The fundamental rule: freedom in psychoanalysis
The paradox of freedom and the first amendment
What is special about speech?
The polis
analysis
and excluded voices
Repression
Free speech? For whom?
Facilitating speech
Hate speech
survival
love
Enshrined ambiguity: drawing lines between speech and action
On having no thoughts: freedom in the context of feminine space
Metaphors of space
Phallic fantasy and vaginal primacy
Laws of lack and feminine law
Naming the vagina: on the feminine dimension of truth
Clinical interlude: the body announces itself
Free speech on the playground of desire
Coda: homeland security and the secure home base