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[T]he importance of psychoanalysis is precisely the way that it throws into crisis the dichotomy on which the appeal to the reality of the event clearly rests. Perhaps for women it is of particular importance that we find a language which allows us to recognise our part in intolerable structures—but in a way which renders us neither the pure victims nor the sole agents of our distress.1
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Jacqueline Rose, Sexuality in the Field of Vision, (London: Verso, 1987), p. 14.
Jean Baudrillard, America, trans. Chris Turner, (London: Verso, 1988), p. 85.
Luisa Valenzuela, He Who Searches, (Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1977), p. 116.
These headings/subtitles form a narrative of their own and are borrowed from Trinh T. Minh-ha’s essay, “Grandma’s Story” in Blasted Allegories, ed. Brian Wallis, (New York and Cambridge: The New Museum of Contemporary Art and The MIT Press, 1987), p. 26.
See Jean Baudrillard, Simulations, (New York: Semiotext(e), 1983).
The history of psychoanalysis and the history of women’s relation to the institution of psychoanalysis is inextricably bound up with the development and use of photography and the so-called documentary image. Jean-Martin Charcot, whose pioneering work on hysteria at the Salpêtrière clinic in Paris, produced the three-volume Iconographie photographique de la Salpêtriêre, a photographic-classificatory scheme of female hysteria. “But, as for the truth, I am absolutely only the photographer; I register what I see.” Quoted in Elaine Showalter, The Female Malady. Women, Madness and English Culture 1830–1980, (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985), p. 151.
Jacqueline Rose, “Femininity and its Discontents,” Feminist Review, 14 (1983): 16.
Aldo Carotenuto, A Secret Symmetry: Sabina Spielrein Between Jung and Freud, trans. Arno Pomerans, John Shepley, Krishna Winston, with a commentary by Bruno Bettelheim, (New York: Pantheon Books, 1984).
Ralph Manhcim and R.F.C. Hall, trans., and William McGuire, ed., The Freud/Jung Letters, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 440.
Sigmund Freud, Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920), trans. and ed. James Strachey, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1961).
Régine Robin, “Towards Fiction as Oblique Discourse,” Yale French Studies, 59 (1980), p. 235.
See James Clifford and George Marcus, eds. Writing Culture: The Politics and Poetics of Ethnography, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986)
James Clifford, The Predicament of Culture: 20th Century Ethnography, Literature and Art., (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988)
George Marcus and Michael Fischer, Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986)
Richard Harvey Brown, Society as Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason and Reality, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987).
Michel de Certeau, The Writing of History, trans. Tom Conley, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1988).
Paul Smith, Discerning the Subject, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), p. 83.
The issue here is not whether “real” events or experiences exist and can be reported. “The fact that every object is constituted as an object of discourse has nothing to do with whether there is a world external to thought, or with the realism/idealism opposition. An earthquake or the falling of a brick is an event that certainly exists.... What is denied is not that such objects exist externally to thought, but the rather different assertion that they would constitute themselves as objects outside any discursive condition of emergence,” Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe quoted in Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Poetics, (New York: Methuen, 1987), p. 242.
The play here is on the subversion of the common-sense connotations of these words at work in Lacanian psychoanalytic discourse. See Chapter 3 of Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Jacques Lacan and the Philosophy of Psychoanalysis, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987), pp. 130–195
Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One, trans. Catherine Porter with Carolyn Burke. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985), p. 150.
The quotation is from Cary Nelson, “Men, Feminism: The Materiality of Discourse,” Men in Feminism, ed. Alice Jardine and Paul Smith, (New York: Methuen, 1987), p. 155.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, “‘Draupadi’ by Mahasveta Devi,” in Elizabeth Abel, ed., Writing and Sexual Difference, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981), pp. 262–3.
Irigaray, p. 145; Catherine Clément, The Lives and Legends of Jacques Lacan, trans. Arthur Goldhammer, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983)
Catherine Clément, The Weary Sons of Freud, trans. Nicole Ball, (London: Verso, 1987)
Hélène Cixous and Catherine Clément, The Newly Born Woman, trans. Betsy Wing, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986).
Jacques Lacan, “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I,” in Éerits: A Selection, trans. Alan Sheridan, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1977).
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things, (New York: Vintage Books, 1973), p. 374.
Carl G. Jung, “Psychology of the Transference,” in The Practice of Psychotherapy. Collected Works, Volume 16, trans. R.F.C. Hall, (New York: Pantheon Books, 1954), pp. 163–321.
Leonard Schatzman and Anselm Strauss, Field Research., (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1973), pp. 1–2.
Gayatri Chakavorty Spivak, “The Rani of Sirmur: An Essay in Reading the Archives,” History and Theory, 24, 3 (1984): 257.
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Gordon, A. (1991). A Ghost Story. In: Kroker, A., Kroker, M. (eds) The Hysterical Male. Culture Texts. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12532-6_3
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