Lacan in Contexts

Name: Lacan in Contexts
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ISBN: 9780860919421

ISBN-10: 0860919420

ISBN-13: 9780860919421

Edition: 1988

Authors: David Macey

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In the most comprehensive study of Jacques Lacan yet to be published in English, David Macey challenges many of the assumptions that have come to surround Lacan’s work. He shows that key elements of Lacanian thought relate not to structuralism, as is often claimed, but to surrealism, Bataille and the early French phenomenologists. The famous “return to Freud” is shown to mask Lacan’s adherence to a psychiatric tradition and to trends within French psychoanalysis which were opposed by Freud himself.A detailed and challenging reading of work by Lacan and his associates on femininity reveals its reliance upon a virulently sexist discourse and upon an iconography derived from surrealism. The…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1988
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 1/1/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English