ENGL 3Q95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sheila Rowbotham, Double Consciousness, Jacques Lacan

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In the article, susan stanford friedman highlights differences that exist between male and female self-writing. Stanford friedman alludes to georges gusdorf"s comments on autobiography as being ripe in a society that fosters the curiosity of the individual about himself, the wonder he feels about the mystery of his own destiny. Gusdorf goes on to associate presence and self-consciousness with the rise of the european empires and constitution of highly polarized public and private spheres. In a similar vein, james olney, argues that the autobiographer is surrounded and isolated by his own consciousness, an awareness grown out of a unique heredity and unique experience. Stanford friedman alludes to lacan and freud as seeing the process of ego-formation moving from fusion to separation. The very sense of identification, interdependence, and community that gusdorf dismisses from autobiographical selves, according to this scholar, are key elements in the development of a women"s identity.

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