Claire Kahane papers (Ms.2012.027)

Biographical note

Claire Kahane was born in 1935 and was raised in New York. She received her B.A. from the City College of New York and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation was entitled "A Rage of Vision: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Flannery O'Connor's Fiction."

Professor Kahane taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1974-2000 and has been a Visiting Scholar in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. She has completed psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and has instructed at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

In addition to authoring Passions of the Voice: Hysteria, Narrative and the Figure of the Speaking Woman, 1850—1915 (1995) and numerous articles and book chapters, Kahane is the co-editor of In Dora's Case: Freud, Hysteria, Feminism (1990) and The (M)Other Tongue: Essays in Feminist Psychoanalytic Interpretation (1985).