| History After Lacan Contributor(s): Brennan, Teresa (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415011167 ISBN-13: 9780415011167 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1993 Annotation: In b /b b i History After Lacan, /i /b Teresa Brennan argues that Jacques Lacan was not an ahistorical post-structuralist. She tells the story of a social psychosis, beginning with a discussion of 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. br br By extending and elaborating on Lacan's theory, Brennan develops a general theory of modernity. Contrary to postmodern assumptions, she argues, we need a 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 relation between the sexes, and ecological catastrophe. br br A challenging feminist, interdisciplinary study, b /b b i History After Lacan /i /b will be essential reading for social, cultural, and political theorists, historians, psychoanalysts, and literary theorists. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 901 |
| LCCN: 93017237 |
| Series: Opening Out |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.38" W x 9.44" (1.15 lbs) 256 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |