I review the relation between the two in terms of a series of critical encounters.
These are psychoanalysis' (first) encounter with 'the problem of women' and its
evolving theory of female sexuality, feminism's (first) encounter with this theory,
feminism's re-evaluation of Freud and its 'critical rapprochement' with
psychoanalysis. Not considered here are the subsequent feminist 'linguistic turn' to
and critique of Lacan, or the revisionist move into sociology of American 'object
relations theory' and its 'deflationary turn'. I do discuss as the last and most recent
encounter the 'discovery' of Kleinian theory, in terms of resources that post-Kleinian
theory brings to feminism, in particular for moving beyond the distinction between
egalitarian feminism and difference feminism to the field of contemporary
(psychoanalytic) gender theory.
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