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

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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Autore principale: Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960-
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1992.
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Sommario:
  • 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.