Post-structuralism and Lacanian Psychoanalysis in Feminism: Gains and Losses

It distresses one to witness feminist theory lost within a vortex of diverging discourses while it seeks one and the same goal. I must note thus that the impulse behind this work is my identification with feminist activities, be they political or theoretical, and my shared desire with feminist critics to achieve ‘change’.

In this work, I seek to analyse the fundamental links of feminism with post-structuralism and psychoanalysis. I try to highlight what feminism gained and what it lost from its interaction with those two theoretical models – models which shaped and changed the form of feminist theory as we know it today.

Hopefully, this work would help in adjusting the direction of feminist theory. I am indeed not the only one who argues for the necessity of the unification of feminist voices.