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In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern discourses - psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these discourses 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 historicity to the historicists, Copjec makes a case for the superiority of Lacan's explanation of historical process, its generative principles, and its complex functionings. Her goal is to inspire a new kind of cultural critique, one that would be "literate in desire, " that would be able to read what is inarticulable in cultural statements.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Psychology Psychological theory & schools of thought

• Full title: Read My Desire
• Subtitle: Lacan Against the Historicists
• Author: Joan Copjec
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9781781688885
• ISBN: 1781688885
• ID: 09029958
• Publisher: Verso Books
• Weight: 330 g
• Dimensions: 132 × 197 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 09. June 2015

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