Format:
1 Online-Ressource (ix, 270 Seiten)
ISBN:
080142660X
,
0801499542
,
9781501705410
,
1501705415
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
Content:
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
Note:
Literaturverz. S. 253 - 263
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801426605
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801499548
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dean, Carolyn J., 1960 - The self and its pleasures Ithaca, NY [u.a.] : Cornell Univ. Press, 1992 ISBN 080142660X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0801499542
Language:
English
Subjects:
Romance Studies
Keywords:
Frankreich
;
Poststrukturalismus
;
Selbst
;
Psychoanalyse
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Dean, Carolyn J. 1960-
