Feminine law : Freud, free speech, and the voice of desire / Jill Gentile with Michael Macrone.

"What do political free speech and psychoanalytic free association have in common, besides the word "free"? And what do Sigmund Freud and Justice Louis Brandeis share besides a world between two great wars? How is the female body a neglected key to understanding the conditions and contradictions of free discourse? Jill Gentile takes up these questions, and more, in her wide-ranging, often passionate exploration of the hidden legacy of Freud and the Founding Fathers. These pioneers, through their imprecise instructions to fight repression, set in motion incessant processes by which we claim power and agency. These processes come into sharp focus in the analytic clinic. The author shows that psychoanalysis is not just a method of treatment, but also a practice of "transitional democracy," in which doctor and patient together discover the very basis of equality, as they learn how to navigate its essential flux, both in relationships and in public action."--Provided by publisher.

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COVER -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter One The space between -- Chapter Two The fundamental rule: freedom in psychoanalysis -- Chapter Three The paradox of freedom and the first amendment -- Chapter Four What is special about speech? -- Chapter Five The polis, analysis, and excluded voices -- Chapter Six Repression -- Chapter Seven Free speech? For whom? -- Chapter Eight Facilitating speech -- Chapter Nine Hate speech, survival, love -- Chapter Ten Enshrined ambiguity: drawing lines between speech and action -- Chapter Eleven On having no thoughts: freedom in the context of feminine space -- Chapter Twelve Metaphors of space -- Chapter Thirten Phallic fantasy and vaginal primacy -- Chapter Fourten Laws of lack and feminine law -- Chapter Fiften Naming the vagina : on the feminine dimension of truth -- Chapter Sixten Clinical interlude: the body announces itself -- Chapter Seventen Free speech on the playground of desire -- Chapter Eighten Coda: homeland security and the secure home base -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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