Psychoanalysis, Politics and the Future of Feminism: A Conversation

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Notes

¹This conversation was recorded on 23 September 2009; many thanks to James Hodgkin for his vital technical support, and to Ben Pester for heroically transcribing it; it has been edited by Helen Carr and Jean Radford.

²Anna Coote and Beatrix Campbell, Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation, Oxford: Blackwell, 1982.

³Susie Orbach, Bodies, London: Profile, 2009; Fat is a Feminist Issue: The Anti-diet Guide to Permanent Weight Loss, London: Paddington Press, 1978.

⁴ Psychoanalysis and Feminism was re-published by Penguin in 2000, with a new introduction dated November 1999.

⁵ Prime Suspect, written by Lynda La Plante, with the lead character Jane Tennison played by Helen Mirren, was made by Granada Television, appearing in Great Britain between 1991 and 2006, and in the USA on PBS from 1992 to 2006.

⁶Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.

⁷Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, London: Verso, 2004.

⁸Reina van der Wiel, ‘Trauma as the Site of Identity: The case of Jeanette Winterson and Frido Karlo’, Women: a cultural review 20:3, 2009, pp. 135–56.

⁹See Susannah Radstone, ‘Trauma Theory: Contests, Politics, Ethics’, Paragraph 30:1, 2007, pp. 3–29.

¹⁰Jacqueline Rose discusses Ahad Ha'am's essay ‘Ancestor Worship’ in The Question of Zion, Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 92-103.

¹¹See the obituary, Guardian, 20 September 2009.

¹²See The Kristeva Reader, ed. Toril Moi, Oxford: Blackwell, 1986, pp. 187–213.

¹³Yehuda Amichai, Israeli poet (1924–2000); Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet (1941–2008).

¹⁴Christopher Bollas, Being a Character: Psychoanalysis and Self Experience, New York: Hill & Wang, 1992.

¹⁵Stephen Spender, The Temple, London: Faber & Faber, 1988.

¹⁶Christopher Bollas, ‘The Trauma of Incest’, Forces of Destiny, London: Free Association, 1989.

¹⁷Estela Welldon, Mother, Madonna, Whore: The Idealisation and Denigration of Motherhood, London: Free Association Books, 1988.

¹⁸Marthe Robert, Roman des origines, origines du roman, Paris: Bernard Grasset, 1972. (An English translation, Origins of the Novel, was published by Harvester in 1980.)

¹⁹Preface to Women: The Longest Revolution, London: Virago, 1984, p. x.

²⁰Étienne Balibar, ‘Althusser and the rue d'Ulm’, New Left Review 58, July–August 2009.