Post-feminist Impasses In Popular Heroine Television: The Persephone Complex
by Alison Horbury /
2015 / English / PDF
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Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone
- a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in
post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions
as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual
difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has
been otherwise foreclosed.
Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone
- a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in
post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions
as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of sexual
difference - what Lacan calls 'sexuation', where this question has
been otherwise foreclosed.
