The self and its pleasures Bataille, Lacan, and the history of the decentered subject

Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Dean, Carolyn J. 1960- author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2016]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One Psychoanalysis and the Self
  • 1. The Legal Status of the Irrational
  • 2 . Gender Complexes
  • 3 . Sight Unseen (Reading the Unconscious)
  • Part Two Sade's Selflessness
  • 4 . The Virtue of Crime
  • 5 . The Pleasure of Pain
  • Part Three Headlessness
  • 6. Writing and Crime
  • 7. Returning to the Scene of the Crime
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index