Read My Desire

Lacan Against the Historicists

Joan Copjec

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English

Verso Books
09 June 2015

Social & political philosophy; Social theory; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)

Series: Radical Thinkers Set 10

"In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between

the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists

of two powerful modern disciplines-psychoanalysis and historicism.

Ordinarily, these modes of thinking 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 history to the historicists, Copjec makes a case for the

superiority of Lacan's explanation of historical processes and

generative principles. Her goal is to inspire a new kind of cultural

critique, one that is ""literate in desire,"" and capable of interpreting

what is unsaid in the manifold operations of culture."

By: Joan Copjec
Imprint: Verso Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 23
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 21mm
Weight: 320g
ISBN: 9781781688885
ISBN 10: 1781688885
Series: Radical Thinkers Set 10
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 09 June 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joan Copjec is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has written or edited eleven books, including Supposing the Subject and Radical Evil.

Reviews for Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists

After Read My Desire, nothing in the domain of cultural studies will remain quite the same: cinema theory, feminism, philosophy, and psychoanalysis will have to relate to each other in an entirely new way. For the first time, an American author has taken Lacan seriously, relegating to well-deserved irrelevance the prevailing appropriation of the Lacanian theory by cultural studies. Far beyond political correctness, the book is theoretically correct: If it didn t exist, one would have to invent it! Slavoj i[ek