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Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists (Radical Thinkers)
Joan Copjec
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Description for Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists (Radical Thinkers)
Paperback. Pits the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan against the historicist approach of Michel Foucault to develop a profound critique of historicism Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JMAF; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.
In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines-psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge psychoanalysis with an indifference to history, but here psychoanalysis, via Lacan, goes on the offensive. Refusing to cede history to the historicists, Copjec makes a case for the superiority of Lacan's explanation of historical processes and generative principles. Her goal is to inspire a new kind of cultural critique, ... Read more
In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines-psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge psychoanalysis with an indifference to history, but here psychoanalysis, via Lacan, goes on the offensive. Refusing to cede history to the historicists, Copjec makes a case for the superiority of Lacan's explanation of historical processes and generative principles. Her goal is to inspire a new kind of cultural critique, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Radical Thinkers
Condition
New
Weight
326g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781688885
SKU
V9781781688885
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About Joan Copjec
Joan Copjec is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has written or edited eleven books, including Supposing the Subject and Radical Evil.
Reviews for Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists (Radical Thinkers)
After Read My Desire, nothing in the domain of cultural studies will remain quite the same: cinema theory, feminism, philosophy, and psychoanalysis will have to relate to each other in an entirely new way. For the first time, an American author has taken Lacan seriously, relegating to well-deserved irrelevance the prevailing appropriation of the Lacanian ... Read more