TY  - GEN
AU  - Dean,Carolyn J.
TI  - The Self and Its Pleasures : Bataille, Lacan, and the History of the Decentered Subject
SN  - 9780801499548
PY  - 1992///
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - historical agency
KW  - masochism
KW  - subjectivity
KW  - Jacques Lacan
KW  - Georges Bataille
KW  - decentered self
KW  - Marquis de Sade
KW  - post-structuralism
KW  - psychoanalysis
KW  - feminist theory
KW  - criminal psychology
N1  - Open Access
N2  - <p>Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the self by Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and other French thinkers. Arguing that the widely shared belief that the boundaries between self and other had disappeared during the Great War helps explain the genesis of the new concept of the self, Dean examines an array of evidence from medical texts and literary works alike. <em>The Self and Its Pleasures</em> offers a pathbreaking understanding of the boundaries between theory and history.</p>
UR  - http://d3p9z3cj392tgc.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/22125911/9780801499548.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/59178
ER  -