I am very pleased to announce that the full text of the Sheffield University doctoral dissertation of Jo Nash is now available at the Free Associations web site. I believe that this is an important work and look forward to discussions of it on relevant email forums and egroups. Best, Bob Young THE THINKING BODY: A FEMINIST REVISION OF THE WORK OF MELANIE KLEIN by Jo Nash http://human-nature.com/free-associations/Nashcontents.htm This is a feminist study of the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein. It particularly focuses on how Klein's recognition and representation of those aspects of communication that exist anterior to language may aid our comprehension of the 'crisis' of rationality, the feminist critique of Western philosophical constructions of the 'feminine' as irrational, and the possible reconstruction of the 'feminine' as the site of embodied thought. Contents 1. Introduction: Embodied Thought and the Feminine. 2. Phallocentrism, The Feminine, and Mind and Body in Psychoanalysis 3. The Kleinian Developmental Schema 4. Maternal Ambivalence, The Depressive Position and Thinking 5. Towards a Kleinian Feminism of Autonomy 6. The Erotics of Knowledge Bibliography There is an extensive archive of psychoanalytic writings atr the Free Associations web site: http://human-nature.com/free-associations/contents.html Robert Maxwell Young [log in to unmask] http://www.human-nature.com