Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists

by Joan Copjec

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781688885
• ISBN13: 9781781688885
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.6"