History After Lacan

by Brennan,Teresa

• ISBN13: 9780415011174
• ISBN10: 0415011175
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 11/30/1993
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

InHistory 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 Lacanwill be essential reading for social, cultural, and political theorists, historians, psychoanalysts, and literary theorists.

Table of Contents

Series Preface	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiv
Texts and Translations	p. xvi
	p. 1
The Problem	p. 3
The Ego's Era	p. 26
	p. 77
The Foundational Fantasy	p. 79
From the Reserve Army of Labour to the Standing Reserve of Nature	p. 118
Conclusion: Time and Exploitation	p. 166
Appendix: The Labour Theory of Value and the Subject-Object Distinction	p. 197
Works Cited	p. 218
Index	p. 233
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