Collective Brazil
group on female
Meetings are held every second Friday of each month from 20:30 to 10/12/2010. Co-chairs: Rosane Padilla Caliandra Oliveira, Camila Popadiuk, Luciana Castilho de Souza and Patrick Monteiro de Almeida.
After 30 years since the death of Jacques Lacan our Collective Brazil - The Women - undertakes to rethink the contemporary issues on women. It is there a female beyond Lacan? After all the achievements of women in the history of our civilization which claims are still made by those behind?
We begin with a quotation from Jacques Lacan: "... the woman has great freedom in the place of pretense. It happens even to give weight to a man who has none. "(Lacan, Jacques. The Seminar XVIII, p.35, 1971)
In this seminar Lacan opens the way to contemporary issues of sex and gender we suggest reading Robert Stoller. We will use this path to further gender - as a division between men and women beyond anatomy - entered in the contemporary discourse. In his teaching, Lacan moves the issue of gender identification on the side of the Oedipus and Freud articulates the side of enjoyment.
We revisit the current literature of feminist writers who have made a link with psychoanalysis in the light of Lacan's teaching. This research will allow us both to understand the points that intersect and those who differ in order to point out the limits flights each speeches.
News about recent developments on such studies is part of various fields: political, social, literary, philosophical, among others, and both the field of psychoanalysis. If we take the two fundamental criticisms of the feminist movement, namely, the policy of compulsory heterosexuality and the sexual hierarchy of the binary, we will always remain attached to the phallocentric logic of domination, domination by the alleged movement. In paradox, the challenge of contemporary women's movement points to a multiplication of meanings of femininity beyond the binarism and phallocentrism, moving away from gender equality.
Thus, we can notice that many feminist writers based on psychoanalytic theory to understand the issue of women, but what we find is that there is mostly a reading uninformed impasses own development theory psychotherapy. In this context we can find critics who point to the binarism sexual Oedipus Complex, phallocentrism, to causality penis envy (attributed by feminists to economic and social foundations), with female sexuality as that masquerade in female masochism and sexual identification. Thus, it is to highlight the controversial points of psychoanalytic theory identified by the feminist movement.
Consequently, the theoretical debate between these two fields is not only still present but it is also necessary, from our point of view, to illuminate the side of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory point of the theory of mounded of gender studies. On one side we see is often a gap between the use of concepts of psychoanalysis made by these authors and concepts of psychoanalytic theory itself, on the other hand there is sometimes a different orientation between these two speeches from the female subject. So we wonder whether the question of femininity may be a connection point between these two speeches.
From the psychoanalytic discourse we outline the scope of our work on the relationship between psychoanalytic theory and feminist theory about the meaning female. To do this we will leave three theoretical axes, namely: The axis images (corresponding to Lacan's teaching for years 50/60), the axis of the symbolic and identifications (In the 60/70 of his teaching) and the axis of the pleasures of performance (from the 70s until the end of his teaching).
Next meeting January 14 at 20:30
in Rosane Padilla
15 rue Saint Sabin 75011 Paris
to work with the text "The meaning of the phallus" (1958) in response to criticism of Simone de Beauvoir in her book "The Second Sex" by Cynthia Kraus repeatedly addressed to psychoanalysis
Information: Rosane Padilla rosanepadilla@hotmail.com Tel: 06 22 79 76 75
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