Oedipus Lex: Psychoanalysis, History, Law Volume 3

by Peter Goodrich and Goodrich

Book Overview

Oedipus Lex offers an original and evocative reading of legal history and institutional practice in the light of psychoanalysis and aesthetics. It explores the unconscious of law through a wealth of historical and contemporary examples. Peter Goodrich provides an anatomy of law's melancholy and boredom, of addiction to law, of legal repressions, and the aesthetics of jurisprudence. He retraces the genealogy of law and invokes the failures and exclusions--the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520332911
• ISBN13: 9780520332911
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"