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The self and its pleasures : Bataille, Lacan, and the history of the decentered subject / Carolyn J. Dean.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dean, Carolyn J. (Carolyn Janice), 1960- author.
- en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 270 pages) : 4 halftones
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Carolyn J. Dean is Charles J. Stille Professor of History and French at Yale University. She is the author of several books, including The Fragility of Empathy after the Holocaust and Aversion and Erasure: The Fate of the Victim after the Holocaust, both from Cornell, and The Frail Social Body: Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Psychoanalysis and the Self
- 1. The Legal Status of the Irrational
- 2 . Gender Complexes
- 3 . Sight Unseen (Reading the Unconscious)
- Part Two Sade's Selflessness
- 4 . The Virtue of Crime
- 5 . The Pleasure of Pain
- Part Three Headlessness
- 6. Writing and Crime
- 7. Returning to the Scene of the Crime
- Conclusion
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Jun 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781501705410
- 1501705415
- OCLC:
- 1013963449
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