From Case Study as Symptom to Case Study as Sinthome: Engaging Lacan and Irigaray on "Thinking in Cases" as Psychoanalytic Pedagogy

<p>This dissertation accomplishes two goals. First, this dissertation articulates a Lacanian account of the epistemological and historical presuppositions of the psychoanalytic case study genre, while engaging reflexively with extant Foucauldian scholarship on this genre as well as feminist psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray’s criticisms of Lacan. Irigaray’s critique is engaged in order to tarry with its implications for a Lacanian approach to the psychoanalytic case study genre. Second, this dissertation critically examines the significance of Lacan’s (re)reading, in <em>Seminar V</em>, of Joan Riviere’s (1929) “Womanliness as Masquerade” in the midst of his oral teachings on the psychoanalytic concepts of castration and feminine sexuality, which took place when a distinctively Lacanian community of theory and practice was emerging from institutional tension in 1950s-era French psychoanalysis.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Year dc:date.available

2020

Author dc:creator

• Freeman, Erica

Contributors dc:contributor

• Derek W. Hook
• Suzanne Barnard
• Elizabeth Fein
• Stephanie Swales

• Continental Philosophy
• Other Arts and Humanities
• Other Psychiatry and Psychology
• Philosophy of Science
• Women's Studies

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1911

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-2914