Read My Desire Lacan Against the Historicists

Name: Read My Desire Lacan Against the Historicists
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ISBN: 9781781688885

ISBN-10: 1781688885

ISBN-13: 9781781688885

Edition: 2015

Authors: Joan Copjec

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In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern discourses - psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these discourses 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 historicity to the historicists, Copjec makes a case for the superiority of Lacan's explanation of historical process, its generative principles, and its complex functionings. Her goal is to inspire a new kind of cultural critique, one that would be "literate in desire," that would be able to…

Book details

List price: $35.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 6/9/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.75" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Joan Copjec is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Media Study at the University at Buffalo, where she is also Director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture.