Description
Teresa De Lauretis makes a bold and orginal argument for the renewed relevance of the Freudian theory of drives, through close readings of texts ranging from cinema and literature to psychoanalysis and cultural theory.
About the Author
TERESA DE LAURETIS, born and educated in Italy, is Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. The author of numerous, widely translated, works in semiotics, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, literary and film theory, she writes in both English and Italian. Her books include Alice Doesn't (1984), Technologies of Gender (1987), The Practice of Love (1994), Soggetti eccentrici (1999) and Figures of Resistance (2007), a reader of her essays in feminist film theory, edited by Patricia White.
Reviews
Awards
Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2009.
Book Information
ISBN 9780230275492
Author Teresa De Lauretis
Format Paperback
Page Count 190
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
About the Author
TERESA DE LAURETIS, born and educated in Italy, is Professor of the History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. The author of numerous, widely translated, works in semiotics, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, literary and film theory, she writes in both English and Italian. Her books include Alice Doesn't (1984), Technologies of Gender (1987), The Practice of Love (1994), Soggetti eccentrici (1999) and Figures of Resistance (2007), a reader of her essays in feminist film theory, edited by Patricia White.
Reviews
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009
'This remarkable book by the well-known semiologist Teresa de Lauretis...is an indication of [the author's] ability to understand the present.'
- Division Review
Awards
Winner of Choice Magazine Outstanding Reference/Academic Book Award 2009.
Book Information
ISBN 9780230275492
Author Teresa De Lauretis
Format Paperback
Page Count 190
Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
