The self and its pleasures Bataille, Lacan, and the history of the decentered subject
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...
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Ithaca, N.Y.
Cornell University Press
1992, 1992
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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-263) and index