
Oedipus Lex
Psychoanalysis, History, Law
Peter Goodrich(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 1995
Book
Hardback
292 pages
978-0-520-08990-7 (ISBN)
Description
This text offers a reading of legal history and institutional practice in the light of psychoanalysis and aesthetics. It explores the unconscious of law through historical and contemporary examples. The book provides an anatomy of law's melancholy and boredom, of addiction to law, of legal repressions, and the aesthetics of jurisprudence. It retraces the geneaology of law and invokes the failures and exclusions - the poets, women and outsiders - that legal science has left in its wake. In addition, the text analyzes the role and power of the image of law and details the history of law's plural jurisdictions and traditions of resistance to law. It also explores mechanisms of repression and representation as constituents of modern subjectivity, using medieval texts and early appearances of feminism as resources for the understanding and renewal of legal scholarship.
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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Weight
590 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-08990-7 (9780520089907)
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Person
Peter Goodrich is Corporation of London Professor of Law at Birkbeck College, University of London. His books include Politics, Postmodernity and Critical Legal Studies (1994), Languages of Law (1990), Legal Discourse (1987), and Reading the Law (1986).