Wrestling with the Angel: Experiments in Symbolic Life

by Tracy McNulty

Book Overview

Wrestling with the Angel is a meditation on contemporary political, legal, and social theory from a psychoanalytic perspective. It argues for the enabling function of formal and symbolic constraints in sustaining desire as a source of creativity, innovation, and social change.

The book begins by calling for a richer understanding of the psychoanalytic concept of the symbolic and the resources it might offer for an examination of the social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231161190
• ISBN13: 9780231161190
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher