La femme n'existe pas. Female ways of withdrawing from, interacting with or opposing the Lacanian Symbolic Order

      Аннотация: This thesis revolves around the question whether Kristeva's semiotic ch?ra, an adaptation of Lacan's imaginary realm, can be seen as a space of female opposition to patriarchal hegemony. Thus, different ways of female interaction with patriarchy will be investigated; thereby drawing upon verbal and non-verbal texts from different centuries. Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and Angela Carter's "Bloody Chamber" will be considered as well as Pre-Raffaelite paintings.

Ключевые слова: Psychoanalysis, feminism, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Julia Kristeva, semiotic ch?ra, mirror stage, abjection theory, Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora, Morella, William Shakespeare, Ophelia, Hamlet, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lady of Shalott, Pre-Raphaelites, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddal, John William Waterhouse, John Everett Millais, Angela Carter, werewolves, fairy tales, Red Riding Hood, Bloody Chamber, Company of Wolves, Wolf-Alice, William Holman Hunt