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

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

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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...

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Main Author: Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1992.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Lacan, Jacques, > 1901-1981.
Bataille, Georges, > 1897-1962.
Zelf.
Poststructuralisme.
Self (Philosophy)
Self.
Masochism.
Intellectual life.
Criminal psychology.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Psychologie criminelle > Histoire.
Masochisme > Histoire.
Moi (Philosophie) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Moi (Psychologie) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Criminal psychology > History.
Masochism > History.
Self (Philosophy) > History > 20th century.
Self > History > 20th century.
France.
France > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
France > Intellectual life > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part one. Psychoanalysis and the self : introduction
  • 1. The legal status of the irrational
  • 2. Gender complexes
  • 3. Sight unseen (reading the unconscious)
  • Part two. Sade's selflessness : introduction
  • 4. The virtue of crime
  • 5. The pleasure of pain
  • Part three. Headlessness : introduction
  • 6. Writing and crime
  • 7. Returning to the scene of the crime
  • Conclusion.

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