The Beatles with Lacan: Rock'n' Roll as Requiem for the Modern Age

by Henry W. Sullivan

The Beatles were the most significant cultural phenomenon of their time, but what exactly did they signify? Using a psychoanalytic approach, The Beatles with Lacan attempts to answer this still relevant question. It argues that Beatlemania and the music of Lennon/McCartney highlighted the end of the Modern Age as it had been expressed in the ideals of the Enlightenment. The albums from Revolver (1966) to Abbey Road (1969)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820421839
• ISBN13: 9780820421834
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 218 Pages