The Self and Its Pleasures Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject

• Yazar: Dean, Carolyn J. (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Cornell University Press 1992
• Konular: historical agency; masochism; subjectivity; Jacques Lacan; Georges Bataille; decentered self; Marquis de Sade; post-structuralism; psychoanalysis; feminist theory; criminal psychology
• Online Erişim: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Özet

<p>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 the self by Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and other French thinkers. Arguing that the widely shared belief that the boundaries between self and other had disappeared during the Great War helps explain the genesis of the new concept of the self, Dean examines an array of evidence from medical texts and literary works alike. <em>The Self and Its Pleasures</em> offers a pathbreaking understanding of the boundaries between theory and history.</p>

Fiziksel Özellikler

1 electronic resource (288 p.)

ISBN

9780801499548

Erişim

Open Access