Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire

by Jill Gentile and Michael Macrone

Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire explores the conjunction between psychoanalysis and democracy, in particular their shared commitments to free speech. In the process, it demonstrates how lawful constraints enable an embodied space or "gap" for the potentially disruptive but also liberating and novel flow of desire and its symbols. This space, intuited by the First Amendment as it is by Freud's free association, enables...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782202773
• ISBN13: 9781782202776
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"