Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change : : A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism / / Mark Bracher.
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...
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Bracher, Mark, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Lacan, Discourse, and Social Change : A Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism / Mark Bracher. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©1993 1 online resource (224 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction: For a Response-Centered Psychoanalytic Cultural Criticism -- PART I. Theory -- 1. Desire in Discourse -- 2. Social Change and the Ethics of Critical Discourse -- PART II. Practice -- 3. Pornography -- 4. Antiabortionist Discourse -- 5. Political Campaign Rhetoric -- 6. Heart of Darkness -- 7. "To Autumn" -- EPILOGUE -- W0RKS CITED -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. While cultural criticism has generally focused on texts, Bracher instead analyzes audiences' actual responses—to a variety of discourses from "high" as well as popular culture: the political speeches of Ronald Reagan and Jesse Jackson, anti-abortion propaganda, pornography, Keats's "To Autumn," and Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Through analyzing these responses, Bracher is able to uncover the unconscious identifications and fantasies of the respondents—an intervention that, he argues, has the potential for altering subjectivity. In his view, such a method of cultural criticism is both unusually powerful and ethnically defensible, since instead of attacking or upholding a group's values, it reveals the psychological conflicts manifest in responses to particular texts.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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) Discourse analysis. Language and culture. Psychoanalysis and literature. Social change. Literary Studies. PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / Psychoanalysis. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722295 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501722295 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501722295/original |
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