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From: brunner@aai7.uucp (Eric Brunner)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Effects of Lacan, Cisoux, etc., on women's position
Keywords: Lacan, French School, Language (Semiotics), Feminism, Freud, Marx
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Date: 26 Nov 88 00:54:24 GMT
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In article <5848@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> rshapiro@bbn.com (Richard Shapiro) writes:
>In article <5845@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> PALEPINK@CC.UTAH.EDU writes:
>>First, I haven't read Lacan, but the two people I know
>>who've read *all* of her say that she doesn't really
>>say that language is inherently masculine...
>
>Jacques Lacan is (or was? is he still alive?) male, a fact which may 
>or may not be relevant.
>

One may want to read "Anti-Oedipus," Volumes 1, and perhaps 2, in translation,
by Deluze and Gutteria for more on the semiotics debate, as well as to view
the French philosophical approach to Freud of Lacan and others...

All misspellings are myown.
Eric
Thomas Eric Brunner
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