Table of Contents:
  • The problem of femininity
  • Writing the feminine
  • The Freudian view
  • Redressing the balance
  • The Lacanians
  • Lacan and femininity
  • 'The ruin of representation'
  • 'Woman-speak'
  • Femaleness, femininity and feminism
  • The female and the feminine
  • Psychoanalysis and politics
  • The blanks
  • The lost moment
  • The withering away of character
  • Symbolism
  • 'Seamless' discourse
  • What does the reader want?
  • The author's desire
  • The text as fetish
  • The return of the familiar
  • Was will das weib?
  • The woman figures
  • The power of the woman
  • Was das weib will
  • Sexual desire
  • Motherhood
  • The missing father
  • Order, chaos and subversive details.