Imagine There's No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation
Ethics and Sublimation
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- Paperback
269 pages
- Release Date
17 September 2004
Summary
Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of feminine sexuality, including the infamous proposition, “the Woman does not exist”, constituted a revision of his earlier work on “the ethics of psychoanalysis.” In Imagine There’s No Woman, Joan Copjec shows how Freud’s ragtag, nearly incoherent notion of sublimation was refashioned by Lacan to become the key term in his ethics. To trace the link between feminine being and Lacan’s ethics of sublimation, Copjec argues, one must take the negative propos…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262532709 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262532700 |
| Author: | Joan Copjec |
| Publisher: | Mit Press |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 269 |
| Release Date: | 17 September 2004 |
| Weight: | 513g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 175mm x 228mm |
| Series: | MIT Press |
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“Only classics like de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex even come close to Copjec’s new book.” - Slavoj Zizek, philosopher and psychoanalyst, author of The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity
About The Author
Joan Copjec
Joan Copjec is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Media Study at the University at Buffalo, where she is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture. She is the author of Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicist (MIT Press, 1994).
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