Introduction to CINEMA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE WOMAN AS SHADOW OR MASK – Thematic Dossier

Whereas Sigmund Freud regarded femininity as a mysterious, unexplored and even ʽdark continent, describing not what a woman is, but how does she come into being (the notorious question ʽWhat does a woman want?), Jacques Lacan argues that hysteria is an attribute of femininity (the question ʽWhat is...

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Main Author: Noemina CÂMPEAN
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Published: Babeș-Bolyai University 2020-04-01
Series:Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia
Online Access:https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/2703
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description Whereas Sigmund Freud regarded femininity as a mysterious, unexplored and even ʽdark continent, describing not what a woman is, but how does she come into being (the notorious question ʽWhat does a woman want?), Jacques Lacan argues that hysteria is an attribute of femininity (the question ʽWhat is a woman?) and proposes the concept of a feminine jouissance (Fr. la jouissance féminine, cf. Le Séminaire. Livre XX. Encore, 1972-73), which goes ʽbeyond the phallus but also regardless of the biological sex. In reference to the phallic signifier, the woman is exceptional because she exists on the side of the One. Moreover, she cannot be assigned a number, existing within the logic of the singular and of the infinite. Yet, the woman is bound to wear the phallic mask: she doesn’t possess the phallus, but she must behave like she has it.
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spelling doaj-art-e13157a99c7f46068d4300aed255629b2025-08-20T03:58:17ZdeuBabeș-Bolyai UniversityStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia2065-94072020-04-01651Introduction to CINEMA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE WOMAN AS SHADOW OR MASK – Thematic DossierNoemina CÂMPEAN0Doctor of Letters, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca; member of the Romanian Forum of the Lacanian Field. Email: noemina.campean@gmail.com. Whereas Sigmund Freud regarded femininity as a mysterious, unexplored and even ʽdark continent, describing not what a woman is, but how does she come into being (the notorious question ʽWhat does a woman want?), Jacques Lacan argues that hysteria is an attribute of femininity (the question ʽWhat is a woman?) and proposes the concept of a feminine jouissance (Fr. la jouissance féminine, cf. Le Séminaire. Livre XX. Encore, 1972-73), which goes ʽbeyond the phallus but also regardless of the biological sex. In reference to the phallic signifier, the woman is exceptional because she exists on the side of the One. Moreover, she cannot be assigned a number, existing within the logic of the singular and of the infinite. Yet, the woman is bound to wear the phallic mask: she doesn’t possess the phallus, but she must behave like she has it. https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/2703
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Introduction to CINEMA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE WOMAN AS SHADOW OR MASK – Thematic Dossier
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title Introduction to CINEMA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE WOMAN AS SHADOW OR MASK – Thematic Dossier
title_full Introduction to CINEMA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE WOMAN AS SHADOW OR MASK – Thematic Dossier
title_fullStr Introduction to CINEMA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE WOMAN AS SHADOW OR MASK – Thematic Dossier
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title_short Introduction to CINEMA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: THE WOMAN AS SHADOW OR MASK – Thematic Dossier
title_sort introduction to cinema and psychoanalysis the woman as shadow or mask thematic dossier
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