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In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful. Publisher’s description: In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault. I wanted to put in a little plug here for Read My Desire by Joan Copjec, a work of theory that has been re-issued under Verbo Books’s.

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Joan Copjec’s book almost feels like a class in Lacan—using many of his key ideas to discuss stuff ranging from Bergsonian time, to utilitarianism, to vampires, to Judith Butler, to detective fiction and noir film, Lacan is championed as the savior of psychoanalysis, insisting that only the Lacanian psychoanalytic approach will acquaint us with our limitations, and the nature of our freedom as modern subjects.

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Dispatched from the UK in 1 business day When will my order arrive? It is this failure, this absence, that once again defines the subject’s place at the intersection of the real and symbolic.

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To ask other readers questions about Read My Desireplease sign up. This entry has no external links. It was worth the effort. As heart-stopping as Copjec’s introduction is, Foucault is less involved in this text than one might realize. Ordinarily, these discourses cross paths copje long enough for historiacists to charge psychoanalysis with an indifference to history, but here psychoanalysis, via Lacan, goes on the offensive. Entries from my LiveJournal, Part 1 July 3, Tim Schoettle rated it it was amazing Aug 05, Nov 18, Matthew rated it it was amazing.

Read My Desire by Joan Copjec

Download our Ky Fiction Sampler Now. Joan Copjec is a philosopher, theorist, author, feminist, and prominent American Lacanian psychoanalyst.

By using our website you agree to our use of cookies. The Inheritance of Potentiality: To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Ferdinand Zero rated it liked it Feb 04, Again, Copjec argues that the policeman is too literal, too stuck in the literalness of the symbolic, whereas the detective locates desire at the point of the real, where the symbolic fails. The actual connection between vampirism and breastfeeding, however, was difficult to follow, and I’m not sure I understand it very well.

Jacques Derrida – – Stanford University Press. September 7th, by Scott Esposito. We use cookies to give you eesire best possible experience. Mar 13, Thai Divone rated it it was amazing Shelves: Here, the crucial tension is not within petty bickering between viewpoints so much as in any symbolic order, both the subject and the symbolic peerage remain incomplete.

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Feb 06, Andrew Fairweather rated it really liked it Shelves: Desite a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. For the first time, an American author has taken Lacan seriously, relegating to well-deserved irrelevance the mg appropriation of the Lacanian theory by cultural studies.

This book is incredible. In Read My DesireJoan Ddsire stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines—psychoanalysis and historicism. The Unpredictable Future of Fantasy’s Traversal. To grossly generalize, for Foucault per Copjecthe modern ideologies leave no space for the individual.

Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Chapter 5 shows an unexpected link between stories of vampirism and the championing of breastfeeding. Copjec’s argument, as I see it, is not really with Foucault or the historicist’s, despite the subtitle of the book, but with an erroneous assumption that all fopjec desire can be rationalized and explained – historicism in particular seems to believe that, if there are gaps in this respect, it is only because we haven’t looked hard enough.

A must-read for anyone interested in psychoanalysis. People want that love above all else, and it is this illusion of love that he gives them in return – whether he lies or not is thus irrelevant.

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Katie Glanz rated it it was amazing Mar 12, Home Contact Us Help Free delivery worldwide. Read My Desire by Joan Copjec was last modified: Lacan’s theory of the gaze, by contrast, is instructive here, for there the gaze is defined not by what it sees, but again by a certain kind of failure remember in Seminar XI, when the tuna can “sees” Lacan in the boat?

To understand the functioning of historicism and the science of psychoanalysis is equally crucial. But the main point Copjec wants to get across and I think she does a good job of it is that neo-Foucauldians have largely misunderstood Lacan over and over again as well as Foucault for that matter because they don’t take Copjec is no Zizek but she takes Lacan more literally than Zizek does, which is good for understanding the finer points of the clinical side of Lacanian theory.

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