I am very pleased to announce that the full text of the Sheffield
University doctoral dissertation of Jo Nash is now available at the
Free Associations web site. I believe that this is an important work
and look forward to discussions of it on relevant email forums and
egroups.
Best, Bob Young

THE THINKING BODY: A FEMINIST REVISION OF THE WORK OF MELANIE KLEIN

by Jo Nash

http://human-nature.com/free-associations/Nashcontents.htm

This is a feminist study of the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein.
It particularly focuses on how Klein's recognition and representation
of those aspects of communication that exist anterior to language may
aid our comprehension of the 'crisis' of rationality,
the feminist critique of Western philosophical constructions of the
'feminine' as irrational, and the possible reconstruction of the
'feminine' as the site of embodied thought.

Contents
1.  Introduction: Embodied Thought and the Feminine.
2. Phallocentrism, The Feminine, and Mind and Body in
Psychoanalysis
3.  The Kleinian Developmental Schema
4.  Maternal Ambivalence, The Depressive Position and
Thinking
5.  Towards a Kleinian Feminism of Autonomy
6.  The Erotics of Knowledge
Bibliography


There is an extensive archive of psychoanalytic writings atr the Free
Associations web site:
http://human-nature.com/free-associations/contents.html


Robert Maxwell Young
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