Lacan, discourse, and social change : a psychoanalytic cultural criticism
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...
xi, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780801427848, 9780801480638, 0801427843, 0801480639
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Introduction: For a Response-Centered Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism
Pt. I. Theory
1. Desire in Discourse
2. Social Change and the Ethics of Critical Discourse
Pt. II. Practice
3. Pornography
4. Antiabortionist Discourse
5. Political Campaign Rhetoric
6. Heart of Darkness
7. "To Autumn"