Read My Desire
Lacan Against the Historicists
Published on 9. June 2015
288 pages
978-1-78168-890-8 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78168-890-8 (9781781688908)
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Person
Joan Copjec is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has written or edited eleven books, including Supposing the Subject and Radical Evil.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Structures Don't March in the Streets
- 2. The Orthopsychic Subject: Film Theory and the Reception of Lacan
- The Screen as Mirror
- Orthopsychism
- The Mirror as Screen
- 3. Cutting Up
- The Death Drive: Freud and Bergson
- Cause: Lacan and Aristotle
- Achilles and the Tortoise
- Cause and the Law
- 4. The Sartorial Superego
- Colonies and Colonnades
- Guilty versus Useful Pleasures
- Beyond the Good Neighbor Principle
- Fantasy and Fetish
- 5. Vampires, Breast-Feeding, and Anxiety
- The Drying Up of the Breast
- Breast-Feeding and Freedom
- 6. The Unvermögender Other: Hysteria and Democracy in America
- The Teflon Totem
- The Modern Forms of Power
- 7. Locked Room/Lonely Room: Private Space in Film Noir
- The Actuarial Origins of Detective Fiction
- The Locked-Room Paradox and the Group
- Detour through the Drive
- The Voice and the Voice-Over
- Locked Room/Lonely Room
- Lethal Jouissance and the Femme Fatale
- 8. Sex and the Euthanasia of Reason
- The Phallic Function
- The Female Side: Mathematical Failure
- The Male Side: Dynamical Failure
- Sexual Difference and the Superego
- Notes
