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Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism

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Description for Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360.

Convinced that cultural criticism need not merely be an academic exercise but can help improve people's lives, Mark Bracher proposes a method of cultural criticism which is based on the principles of psychoanalytic treatment and which aims to alter subjectivity and behavior.

In this forceful and engagingly written book, Bracher first accounts for the failure of contemporary cultural criticism to achieve significant social impact. He then offers a model of analysis that draws on Lacan's theoretical insights into the structure of subjectivity and the psychological functions of discourse, asserting that the use of this model can promote collective psychological change. ... Read more

Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change will be essential reading for students as well as specialists in such fields as cultural criticism, feminist theory, literary theory, psychoanalytic criticism, reader-response criticism, reader-response criticism, and Lacanian theory.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801480638
SKU
V9780801480638
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Ref
99-1

About Mark Bracher
Mark Bracher is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Literature and Psychoanalysis at Kent State University.

Reviews for Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change: A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism
"In addition to his lucid presentation of Lacanian theory, Bracher's readings of political and literary discourses furnish a fresh perspective on familiar topics and texts. His objective of making cultural criticism socially significant raises important questions about the functions of criticism and of pedagogy. A thoroughly interesting, appealing, and original book." "The project of designing a Lacanian cultural criticism is ... Read more

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