the wanting is less interesting

• 2012-07-17

  That’s what’s radical about Freud […] that identity fails. So if you’re talking about the norms of masculinity and femininity in a patriarchal culture, what’s crucial is that they are very, very powerful, but in our dreams, they fall apart, and in our symptoms they fall apart, and in fact they’re falling apart all the time. […] If patriarchal ideology wasn’t effective we wouldn’t need feminism, but if it was 100% effective, we wouldn’t have feminism.

  — An interview with Jacqueline Rose

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  "[Juliet Mitchell] believes feminism is the longest revolution. And if it’s the longest revolution, then periodical setbacks and a kind of hatred towards the body of the woman, which is what all this is about, dressed up as sexual admiration for the woman, this hatred towards the body of the woman is actually a mark of a fear of the progressive and continuing emancipation of the woman, and therefore we should expect it."

  An interview with Jacqueline Rose