1st Edition

History After Lacan

By Teresa Brennan Copyright 1993
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Lacan was not an ahistorical post-structuralist. Starting from this controversial premiss, Teresa Brennan tells the story of a social psychosis. She begins by recovering 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 Lacan's theory, Brennan develops a... Read more
Part 1 The Problem; Part 2 The Ego’s Era; Part 3; Part 4 The Foundational Fantasy; Part 5 From the Reserve Army of Labour to the Standing Reserve of Nature; Part 6 Conclusion: Time and Exploitation;

Biography

Teresa Brennan teaches at the University of Cambridge. She is the editor of Between Feminism and Psychoanalysis and author of The Interpretation of the Flesh.