American Imago articles from December 1994

American Imago archives from December 1994

What theories women want: the shift in psychoanalytic theory.
December 22, 1994... The Shift In Psychoanalytic Theory In the last twenty years, a paradigm shift has been occurring in Anglo-American psychoanalytic theory and practice. This shift is still in course. Its outcome is uncertain, however, for, while it is...

Memory, sickness, and slavery: one slave girl's story.
December 22, 1994... "I can not help telling some one of it, that they may feel as grateful as I feel...and if there is one that should feel grateful it is this feeble-bodied slave girl...." Kate Drumgoold (1898) If politics argues that certain groups of...

"Looking for that dead girl:" incest, pornography and the capitalist family; romance in 'Nightwood,' 'The Years,' and 'Tar Baby.'
December 22, 1994... To a Cabaret Dancer A thousand lights had smitten her Into this thing; Life had taken her and given her One place to sing... One master chord we couldn't sound For the lost keys, Yet she hinted of it...

A black morning: Kristevan melancholia in Jane Austen's 'Emma.'
December 22, 1994... [L]anguage starts with a negation (Verneinung) of loss.... "I have lost an essential object that happens to be, in the final analysis, my mother," is what the speaking being seems to be saying.... Depressed persons... disavow the negation:...

Female castration anxiety.
December 22, 1994... In his 1927 paper on the etiology and structure of fetishism, Freud proclaimed, "Probably no male human being is spared the horror of castration at the sight of the female genitals" (154). Freud was employing this idea about "the horror of...