{"product_id":"lacan-in-contexts-9780860919421","title":"Lacan in Contexts","description":"In the most comprehensive study of Jacques Lacan yet to be published in English, David Macey challenges many of the assumptions that have come to surround Lacan's work. He shows that key elements of Lacanian thought relate not to structuralism, as is often claimed, but to surrealism, Bataille and the early French phenomenologists. The famous \"return to Freud\" is shown to mask Lacan's adherence to a psychiatric tradition and to trends within French psychoanalysis which were opposed by Freud himself. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA detailed and challenging reading of work by Lacan and his associates on femininity reveals its reliance upon a virulently sexist discourse and upon an iconography derived from surrealism. The view that Lacanian psychoanalysis has a positive contribution to make to feminism and to theories of gender and sexual difference is contested. As well as providing a new and provocative reading of Lacan's work, \u003ci\u003eLacan in Contexts\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to psychoanalytic history and to the history of French intellectual life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Macey\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.75d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780860919421\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Macey\u003c\/b\u003e translated some twenty books from French to English. He was the author of \u003ci\u003eLacan in Context\u003c\/i\u003e, the acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Lives of Michel Foucault\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Frantz Fanon: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. He died in October 2011.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40628675412083,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":48.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f4a72221-1917-4d48-bb44-94e63e861852.jpg?v=1671117479","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/lacan-in-contexts-9780860919421","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}