History after Lacan
By: Teresa Brennan.
Series: Opening out
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Lacan, Jacques, 1901-; History -- Philosophy.
Description: In History After Lacan, Teresa Brennan argues that Jacques Lacan was not an ahistorical post-structuralist. She tells the story of a social psychosis, beginning with a discussion of Lacan's neglected theory of history which argued that we are in the grip of a psychotic's era which began in the seventeenth century and climaxes in the present. By extending and elaborating on Lacan's theory, Brennan develops a general theory of modernity. Contrary to postmodern assumptions, she argues, we need a general historical explanation. An understanding of historical dynamics is essential if we are to make the connections between the outstanding facts of modernity--ethnocentrism, the relation between the sexes, and ecological catastrophe. A challenging feminist, interdisciplinary study, History After Lacan will be essential reading for social, cultural, and political theorists, historians, psychoanalysts, and literary theorists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-232) and index.