Psicoanálisis y feminismo

Abstract

This paper explains three schools of psychoanalytic feminist thought: Lacanian, Sexual Difference, and Object Relations approaches. Their agreements and differences are examined: for enample, the Sexual Difference school of French and Italian psychoanalytic feminism stems from a Lacanian base
corrected for a more independent feminine imaginary, while Object Relations feminism places gender development in the pre-Oedipal phase, suggesting women have more grounded gender identities than men. Butler's view that gender is performative in relation to unconscious masculine and feminine imaginaries structured by heterosexual norms is presented as a post-structuralist variant of psychoanalytic feminism. Political implications for all approaches are indicated, and the author presents her own mod$cation of psychoanalysis to account for historical differences between women as well as political effects of feminist organizing on masculine and feminine subjectivities.