Title: History after Lacan
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.
Subjects: History, Philosophy, Contributions in philosophy of history, History, philosophy, General, Lacan, jacques, 1901-1981, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Féminisme, Psychanalyse, Histoire, History (discipline), Philosophy of history
People: Jacques Lacan (1901-1981)