By Jean Wyatt
Risking distinction revisions the dynamics of multicultural feminist neighborhood by way of exploring the ways in which identity creates misrecognitions and misunderstandings among participants and inside groups. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalysis, Jean Wyatt argues not just that particular psychic tactics of identity effect social dynamics, but additionally that social discourses of race, classification, and tradition form person identifications. as well as interpreting fictional narratives by way of Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Sandra Cisneros, Toni Morrison, and others, Wyatt additionally appears to be like at nonfictional money owed of cross-race kin by way of white feminists and feminists of colour.
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The formula for fantasy, S/<>a, represents the subject in a relation of attraction to the lost object a. This structure founds the unconscious; and from the unconscious it generates desire: “Desire . . finds in the fantasy its reference, its substratum, its precise tuning in the imaginary register . . in an economy of the unconscious” (“Desire” 14). ” With “the composition of his imaginary register,” says Lacan (“Desire” 48): that is, as I interpret it, the subject searches for the semblance of the object THE POLITICS OF ENVY 33 a, the lost part of the self, in some object in the external world.
As the examples cited above show, and as Keller and Moglen argue about competitive feelings generally, denial of envy doesn’t prevent the feared disruption of feminist bonds. “Competition [and envy] denied in principle, but unavoidable in practice, surfaces in forms that may be far more 30 RISKING DIFFERENCE wounding, and perhaps even fiercer and more destructive, than competition that is ideologically sanctioned” (Keller and Moglen 34). 8 As part of that analysis, feminists could begin to theorize envy as an inevitable product of the power disparities between women.
I would not say that Atwood is advocating that women abandon an ethic of mutual care: after all, the three women gain both from giving and from receiving care, enabling each other to revive from loss and to regain a measure of self-esteem. But the text does show that the ethic of care, like any ideology, lives by the exclusion of some important realities. After having attended Zenia’s “funeral,” and in the absence of a crisis that would call on their nurturing skills, the three women have continued to see each other, but their relations lack intensity.