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Feminism Strengthened By Psychoanalysis
- Mari Ruti became a feminist before encountering psychoanalysis and found they complemented each other in practice.
- She says feminism benefits from psychoanalysis because it explains the unconscious, drives, and deconstructs the gender binary.
Psychoanalysis Fractures Fixed Identities
- Psychoanalysis complicates identity and makes gender a small part of a much larger subjectivity.
- Ruti argues psychoanalysis helps undo the gender binary rather than reinforce fixed male/female categories.
Teach Mulvey Then Complicate The Gaze
- When teaching Mulvey, present her male-gaze claim but then spend time complicating it with later theory.
- Show students how spectatorship implicates viewers and resists a simple victim/master binary.