Read My Desire : Lacan Against the Historicists

Name: Read My Desire
Brand: Verso Books
SKU: 9781781688885
Price: 3750 KES
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ISBN: 9781781688885

by Joan Copjec

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Radical Thinkers

ISBN-10 1781688885

ISBN-13 9781781688885

Publisher Verso Books

Imprint Verso Books

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 9th, 2015

Print length 288 Pages

Weight 278 grams

Dimensions 13.10 x 19.70 x 2.80 cms

Product Classification: Social & political philosophy Social theory Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)Social and political philosophy

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Pits the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan against the historicist approach of Michel Foucault to develop a profound critique of historicism

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, one that is “literate in desire,” and capable of interpreting what is unsaid in the manifold operations of culture.

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