Intersubjective openings
- 1 April 2005
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Feminist Theory
- Vol. 6 (1) , 5-24
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700105050224
Abstract
This essay explores notions of maternal desire within feminist psychoanalysis with an interest in challenging heteronormative frameworks of analysis. Providing close critical readings of texts by Jessica Benjamin, Julia Kristeva, Kaja Silverman and Hortense Spillers, I trace conceptual openings through which to interpret maternal sexuality as a mobile process of intersubjectivity that is grounded in changing historical relations of experience. I argue that Spillers’ approach transforms a critical process of reading desire away from the insularities and exclusions of conventional psychoanalytic knowledges towards a democratic and reflexive process of representation and analysis.Keywords
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