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- Title
Audre Lorde's Zami: Knowing Psychoanalytic Theory Otherwise.
- Authors
MORRISON, KEVIN A.
- Abstract
A literary criticism of the book "Zami: A New Spelling of My Name" by U.S. poet Audre Lorde is presented. This criticism focuses on the book's representation of the theory of the Oedipus complex created by psychologist Sigmund Freud, particularly girls' intense attachment to their mother in the preoedipal stage. The groundwork for feminist theorizations of the preoedipal state laid by Freud is discussed, as well psychoanalytic accounts of identity formation in the opposite-sex desire on women.
- Subjects
ZAMI: A New Spelling of My Name (Book); LORDE, Audre, 1934-1992; OEDIPUS complex; FREUD, Sigmund, 1856-1939; FEMINISM; HOMOSEXUALITY; PSYCHOLOGY of women; PSYCHOANALYTIC theory
- Publication
Papers on Language & Literature, 2020, Vol 56, Issue 4, p327
- ISSN
0031-1294
- Publication type
Literary Criticism