[Revised entry by Claudia Leeb and Emily Zakin on October 3, 2025.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
This article will discuss psychoanalytic feminism, not feminist psychoanalysis (i.e., except indirectly, it will not address ideas about developing feminist principles in clinical practice, although most of the authors discussed below are trained analysts). The Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud, who introduced the field of psychoanalysis in the late 19th and early 20th century, developed a theory of the unconscious that links sexuality and subjectivity ineluctably together. In doing so, he discloses how our sense of self,…
What is Disagreement? – Part IV
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
