Abstract
In History After Lacan, Teresa Brennan argues that Jacques Lacan was not an ahistorical post-structuralist. She tells the story of a social psychosis, beginning with a discussion of Lacan's neglected theory of history which argued that we are in the grip of a psychotic's era which began in the seventeenth century and climaxes in the present. By extending and elaborating on Lacan's theory, Brennan develops a general theory of modernity. Contrary to postmodern assumptions, she argues, we need a general historical explanation. An understanding of historical dynamics is essential if we are to make the connections between the outstanding facts of modernity--ethnocentrism, the relation between the sexes, and ecological catastrophe. A challenging feminist, interdisciplinary study, History After Lacan will be essential reading for social, cultural, and political theorists, historians, psychoanalysts, and literary theorists.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
1. The problem --
2. The ego's era. 'The social psychosis'. 'At the dawn of the era of the ego...'. 'One returns, comes back, coming across the same path, one cross-checks it'. 'A passifying image...'. 'the path of logic...'. 'The symptom, as defined by Marx in the social...' --
3. The foundational fantasy. The foundational fantasy. The subject's inertia. From the common source to the one substance --
4. From the reserve army of labour to the standing reserve of nature. The time-energy axis. From the reserve army of labour to the standing reserve of nature. The law of substitution. Production and real value. The overall quantity of use- and surplus-value. The speed of acquisition. How space replaces time. The state. Reproduction: perspectives on gender, neo-colonialism and class --
5. Conclusion: time and exploitation. Notes on the fantasy's history: symbolization and scale. Imaginary time. Exploitation and its opposition. Appendix: the labour theory of value and the subject-object distinction. The labour theory of value. The subject-object distinction and the living and the dead. The difference between labour and nature. Centralization, objectification and the will.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
1. The problem --
2. The ego's era. 'The social psychosis'. 'At the dawn of the era of the ego...'. 'One returns, comes back, coming across the same path, one cross-checks it'. 'A passifying image...'. 'the path of logic...'. 'The symptom, as defined by Marx in the social...' --
3. The foundational fantasy. The foundational fantasy. The subject's inertia. From the common source to the one substance --
4. From the reserve army of labour to the standing reserve of nature. The time-energy axis. From the reserve army of labour to the standing reserve of nature. The law of substitution. Production and real value. The overall quantity of use- and surplus-value. The speed of acquisition. How space replaces time. The state. Reproduction: perspectives on gender, neo-colonialism and class --
5. Conclusion: time and exploitation. Notes on the fantasy's history: symbolization and scale. Imaginary time. Exploitation and its opposition. Appendix: the labour theory of value and the subject-object distinction. The labour theory of value. The subject-object distinction and the living and the dead. The difference between labour and nature. Centralization, objectification and the will.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
1. The problem --
2. The ego's era. 'The social psychosis'. 'At the dawn of the era of the ego...'. 'One returns, comes back, coming across the same path, one cross-checks it'. 'A passifying image...'. 'the path of logic...'. 'The symptom, as defined by Marx in the social...' --
3. The foundational fantasy. The foundational fantasy. The subject's inertia. From the common source to the one substance --
4. From the reserve army of labour to the standing reserve of nature. The time-energy axis. From the reserve army of labour to the standing reserve of nature. The law of substitution. Production and real value. The overall quantity of use- and surplus-value. The speed of acquisition. How space replaces time. The state. Reproduction: perspectives on gender, neo-colonialism and class --
5. Conclusion: time and exploitation. Notes on the fantasy's history: symbolization and scale. Imaginary time. Exploitation and its opposition. Appendix: the labour theory of value and the subject-object distinction. The labour theory of value. The subject-object distinction and the living and the dead. The difference between labour and nature. Centralization, objectification and the will.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Table of Contents
1. The problem --
2. The ego's era. 'The social psychosis'. 'At the dawn of the era of the ego...'. 'One returns, comes back, coming across the same path, one cross-checks it'. 'A passifying image...'. 'the path of logic...'. 'The symptom, as defined by Marx in the social...' --
3. The foundational fantasy. The foundational fantasy. The subject's inertia. From the common source to the one substance --
4. From the reserve army of labour to the standing reserve of nature. The time-energy axis. From the reserve army of labour to the standing reserve of nature. The law of substitution. Production and real value. The overall quantity of use- and surplus-value. The speed of acquisition. How space replaces time. The state. Reproduction: perspectives on gender, neo-colonialism and class --
5. Conclusion: time and exploitation. Notes on the fantasy's history: symbolization and scale. Imaginary time. Exploitation and its opposition. Appendix: the labour theory of value and the subject-object distinction. The labour theory of value. The subject-object distinction and the living and the dead. The difference between labour and nature. Centralization, objectification and the will.