Bridging the Social and the Symbolic: Toward a Feminist Politics of Sexual Difference

Hypatia 15 (3):19-44 (2000)
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By clarifying the psychoanalytic notion of sexual difference, I argue that the symbolic dimension of psychical life cannot be discarded in developing political accounts of identity formation and the status of women in the public sphere. I discuss various bridges between social reality and symbolic structure, bridges such as body, language, law, and family. I conclude that feminist attention must be redirected to the unconscious since the political cannot be localized in, or segregated to, the sphere of social reality; sexual difference is an indispensable concept for a feminist politics.

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Emily Zakin
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Psychoanalytic feminism.Emily Zakin - forthcoming - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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