In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern discourses ' psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these discourses only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge …
La chair et le diable
by Vincent, Jean-Didier, Durkheim, François
fromBibliothèque (Paris. 2007)
In these essays, Phillips examines literature, fairy tales, works of art, and case studies to reveal the paradoxes inherent in people's appetites and fears.
When might we know that enough is enough? Does the road of excess ever lead to the palace of wisdom? Should we be happy, or is there something better we can be? In this absorbing and provocative new book from one of Britain's most elegant and original prose stylists, psychoanaly…
Contains essays in which the author examines the contradictory aspects of a person's fears and desires, discussing examples from literature, fairy tales, works of art, and case studies.
The indebtedness of contemporary thinkers to Derrida's project of deconstruction is unquestionable, whether as a source of inspiration or the grounds of critical antagonism. This collection considers: how best to recall deconstruction? Rather than reduce it to an object of histo…