Lebeau, Vicky (2019) Revisiting Joan Riviere. In: Piotrowska, Agnieszka and Tyrer, Ben (eds.) Femininity and psychoanalysis: cinema, culture, theory. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781138500921
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Abstract
Why revisit Joan Riviere? This chapter explores Riviere’s ‘Womanliness as a Masquerade’ (1929), an essay that enjoys a unique, if uneasy, status in the dialogue between psychoanalysis and feminism: from Ur-text attuned to the relations among sex, gender and identity to one of the most prominent examples of a silence, shared between psychoanalysis and feminism, in the question racism in the formations of self and society. Reading ‘Womanliness as a Masquerade’ alongside Riviere’s less well-known ‘Jealousy as a Mechanism of Defence’ and Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks, this chapter attempts a renewed psychoanalytic reading of Riviere as a thinker who draws out attention to the boundary between dream and culture, unconscious and ideology.
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Schools and Departments: | School of English > English |
Depositing User: | Vicky Lebeau |
Date Deposited: | 14 May 2019 09:41 |
Last Modified: | 10 Feb 2020 15:46 |
URI: | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/83693 |
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