What does a woman need?

Author: Serge André
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: This book is an important work of the Paris School of Psychoanalysis (i.e., the Lacanian School). To date, the Lacanian School has proven to be one of the most vibrant and influential schools of psychoanalysis. Since the Freudian revival of the 1980s, Lacanian theory has become known, but what Lacanian theory actually is remains largely unknown. Lacanian theory integrates various theoretical approaches from psychoanalysis and French semiotics, among others. In other words, one could also say that Lacan underwent a creative "linguistic turn" with the classical Freudian theory, introducing linguistic, semiotic, and other theoretical methods into the practice of psychoanalysis. His texts are renowned in the West for their complexity. This book inherits the fundamental views of Freud's theories on women—such as the "Electra complex" and the "penis envy" theory—but it also undergoes significant and profound transformations. It explores the deep psychological question of "What does a woman need?" in the distinctive way of the Paris School.