Publication Date

1997

Journal

Washington and Lee Law Review

Abstract

The article explores how property and the feminine, as legal fictions, facilitate the creation of subjectivity through the lens of Hegelian philosophy and Lacanian psychoanalysis. It critiques the liberal individual as an insufficient concept for subjectivity, arguing that subjectivity is constructed, not natural. The analysis examines how legal frameworks privilege masculine metaphors, such as possession, while repressing feminine ones, and posits that the pursuit of a perfect market represents a destructive ideal that undermines freedom and subjectivity.

Volume

54

Issue

3

First Page

995

Last Page

1034

Publisher

Washington and Lee University School of Law

Disciplines

Jurisprudence | Law | Law and Gender | Sexuality and the Law

Comments

Symposium: On Lacan and the Subject of Law

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