A brilliantly original exploration of the interface between feminism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and film theory.
Jacqueline Rose argues for the importance of sexual difference and fantasy as key concepts through which an interrogation of contemporary theory should be sustained.
AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Feminism and the Psychic1Pt. 1Femininity and Representation25Ch. 1Dora - Fragment of an Analysis27Ch. 2Feminine Sexuality - Jacques Lacan and the ecole freudienne49Ch. 3Femininity and its Discontents83Ch. 4George Eliot and the Spectacle of the Woman104Ch. 5Hamlet - the 'Mona Lisa' of Literature123Ch. 6Julia Kristeva - Take Two141Pt. 2The Field of Vision165Ch. 7The Imaginary167Ch. 8The Cinematic Apparatus - Problems in Current Theory199Ch. 9Woman as Symptom215Ch. 10Sexuality in the Field of Vision225Bibliography235