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Embodying the subject

Feminist theory and contemporary clinical psychoanalysis

Concordia University, Montreal, mlafrance{at}alcor.concordia.ca

This paper presents a three-part reflection on the status of the lived body in feminist theory. In the first part, I argue that many influential feminist arguments have neglected questions of embodied experience. In the second part, I introduce the work of five clinically grounded psychoanalysts — Esther Bick, Frances Tustin, Donald Meltzer, Thomas Ogden and Didier Anzieu — while showing that it has much to offer those interested in making a critical return to the concrete specificities of the body. In the third part, I explore the work of feminist psychoanalyst Sue Grand. In doing so, I argue that reading feminist texts alongside clinical texts is a useful approach for thinking the subjective experience of bodily life.

Key Words: embodiment • experience • feminism • psychoanalysis • subjectivity

Feminist Theory, Vol. 8, No. 3, 263-278 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1464700107082365


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