2004 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Ethics and the Realm of Imagination : from ‘Institutionalized Maternity' to ‘Domain of Mother'
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15520011
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Philosophy/Ethics
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| Research Institution | Yokohama National University |
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Principal Investigator |
KANAI Yoshiko Yokohama National University, Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Professor, 教育人間科学部, 教授 (50152773)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2004
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| Keywords | Body / Sexuality / Institutionalized Maternity / The Domain of Mother / imaginary Domain / Social Constructionism / Essentialism / Femininity |
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| Research Abstract |
This piece of research aims to open up encountering dialogue between Feminism and Ethics in the theme of ‘from "Institutionalized Maternity" to "Domain of Mother"'. From Feminism which sets women's liberation from patriarchy as the agenda for freedom and autonomy, both paternalism and maternity are seen as negative or as taboo subjects. Feminism that orientates itself towards thorough liberalism and Ethics that enquires relationality and co-habituality of human existence often take positions inevitably antagonising each other. Thus, how to create the arena for discussion that would go beyond the polarity between Social Constructionism and Essentialism around the issues of maternity and body is the question. One purpose of this piece of research is to put forward the subject of ‘mother' in ‘Diversity Feminism' that exists, however minor it is, in Feminism, and further to present the consciousness towards the possibility of ‘Ethics of Care' that is not incorporated in patriarchal paterna
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Another agenda set -'Ethics and the Realm of Imagination'- explores an interest into the realm of imagination or imaginary domain in the theory of psychoanalysis. Here, the construction of meanings of the rise of woman as the subject is questioned by going into the realm of imagination that precedes the language and the law of symbols, through critical analyses of Freud and Lacan, and newly relating Feminism and psychoanalysis beyond the existing ‘unsavory ties'. This is because the difficulty for women to constitute themselves as the subject and the gravity of their identity crisis that can threat their lives in the contemporary society call for attention to examine the background - the reason behind their deep trouble to live embedded in both the inner realm of imagination and the outer realm of symbols of the subject. However, the research in this year stopped short as to merely present the issues about 'meanings and challenges of imaginary domain for Ethics'. I would like to continue the research into this area by means of Grant-in-aid for Scientific Research I received under the theme of 'A Critique of Femininity and Phenomenological Theory of Body : towards the Myth of Female Body'. Less
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