Defense Date
5-6-2020
Graduation Date
Summer 8-8-2020
Availability
Immediate Access
Submission Type
dissertation
Degree Name
PhD
Department
Psychology
School
McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Committee Chair
Derek W. Hook
Committee Member
Suzanne Barnard
Committee Member
Elizabeth Fein
Committee Member
Stephanie Swales
Abstract
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 Seminar V, 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.
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Freeman, E. (2020). From Case Study as Symptom to Case Study as Sinthome: Engaging Lacan and Irigaray on "Thinking in Cases" as Psychoanalytic Pedagogy (Doctoral dissertation, Duquesne University). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/1911
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