Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Part One: The Conversation
5. 1. Something Is Happening: On Writing in a Transitional State 3
6. 2. Transitional Thinking: Psychoanalytic, Feminist, and Postmodernist Theories 14
7. Part Two: The Selves' Conceptions
8. 3. Freud: Initiation and Omission in Psychoanalysis 47
9. 4. Lacan and Winnicott: Splitting and Regression in Psychoanalytic Theory 89
10. Part Three: Gender(s) and Dis-contents
11. 5. Feminisms: Stories of Gender 135
12. Part Four: Knowledge in Question
13. 6. Postmodernism: Thinking in Fragments 187
14. 7. No Conclusions: Gender, Knowledge, Self, and Power in Transition 222
15. Notes 237
16. Index 267