CRITICISM OF PHALLOCENTRISM

In these two short essays, one of the most important contemporary epistemologists, Anthony Wilden, himself a student of Lacan in the 1960s as well as one of the very experts in Communication and Systems Theory, demonstrates phallocentrism and a a certain political conservatism underlying certain fundamental concepts of psychoanalysis as they have come to be used since Freud's time. Wilden's critique also extends to the field of social anthropology, to include the whole of structuralism, especially that of Claude Levi-Strauss. A unique sample of the warm liberation rhetoric of the late 60s, which combines fiery, passionate and poetic expression with rigorous scientific accuracy and a penetrating critical thought. As an epitome, a well-known text by the radical French psychiatrist and militant homosexual Felix Guattari, who was also a student of Lacan, has been included, regarding the revolutionary meanings of the practice of transvestism.