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.
Author: Joan Copjec
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Verso
Published: 06/09/2015
Series: Radical Thinkers
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 7.60h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781781688885
Language: English
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