UID:
almafu_9958353476102883
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9781501705410
Content:
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. The Self and Its Pleasures offers a pathbreaking understanding of the boundaries between theory and history.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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Introduction --
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Part One Psychoanalysis and the Self --
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1. The Legal Status of the Irrational --
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2 . Gender Complexes --
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3 . Sight Unseen (Reading the Unconscious) --
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Part Two Sade's Selflessness --
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4 . The Virtue of Crime --
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5 . The Pleasure of Pain --
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Part Three Headlessness --
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6. Writing and Crime --
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7. Returning to the Scene of the Crime --
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Conclusion --
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Selected Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.7591/9781501705410
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501705410
