History After Lacan / Edition 1

by Teresa Brennan

Overview

Lacan was not an ahistorical post-structuralist. Starting from this controversial premiss, Teresa Brennan tells the story of a social psychosis. She begins by recovering Lacan's neglected theory of history which argued that we are in the grip of a psychotic's era which began in the seventeenth century and climaxes in the present.
By extending and elaborating Lacan's theory, Brennan develops a general theory of modernity. Contrary to postmodern assumptions, she argues, we need general historical explanation. An understanding of historical dynamics is essential if we are to make the connections between the outstanding facts of modernity - ethnocentrism, the relationship between the sexes and ecological catastrophe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415011174
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/16/1993
Series:	Opening Out: Feminism for Today
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Teresa Brennan teaches at the University of Cambridge. She is the editor of Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis and author of The Interpretation of the Flesh.

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Problem; Part 2 The Ego’s Era; Part 3; Part 4 The Foundational Fantasy; Part 5 From the Reserve Army of Labour to the Standing Reserve of Nature; Part 6 Conclusion: Time and Exploitation;

Editorial Reviews

"Ranging from Marx and Spinoza through Freud, Lacan and contemporary feminist theory, Brennan offers a new direction for rethinking the relation between psychoanalysis and Marxism by detailing a theory of social psychosis, and strengthening the critique of atomistic egoism through a further formulation of her theory of energetic relationality."
-Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley
"This is a really original book--an extraordinary accomplishment."
-Anthony Giddens, University of Cambridge
..."this innovative andimportant book will make worthwhile reading for anyone enagged in the theory or practice of social science."
-"Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society

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