Madness and the Social Link. Issue 3 (2nd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Davoine, Françoise
• Is Part Of: Studies in gender and sexuality. Volume 21:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 213
• Page End: 217
• Publication Date: 2020-07-02
• Subjects: Sex (Psychology) -- Periodicals; Sexology -- Periodicals; Gender identity -- Periodicals; 155.305
• DOI: 10.1080/15240657.2020.1798183
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1524-0657

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this paper, I contend the necessity of a feminine agency in order to survive deshumanization. Examples are taken from Hannah Arendt's Rahel Varnhagen, anthropologist and psychoanalyst William Rivers in Pat Barker's Regeneration Trilogy, who was called a male mother by traumatized officers returning from the front, Diotima for Socrates in the Symposium, Dulcinea for Don Quixote, and my experience in a psychiatric hospital situated on the battle fields of the previous war in the north of France.