In the most comprehensive study of Jacques Lacan yet to be
published in English, David Macey challenges many of the
assumptions that have come to surround Lacan's work. He shows that
key elements of Lacanian thought relate not to structuralism, as is
often claimed, but to surrealism, Bataille and the early French
phenomenologists. The famous "return to Freud" is shown to mask
Lacan's adherence to a psychiatric tradition and to trends within
French psychoanalysis which were opposed by Freud himself.
A detailed and challenging reading of work by Lacan and his
associates on femininity reveals its reliance upon a virulently
sexist discourse and upon an iconography derived from surrealism.
The view that Lacanian psychoanalysis has a positive contribution
to make to feminism and to theories of gender and sexual difference
is contested. As well as providing a new and provocative reading of
Lacan's work, "Lacan in Contexts" is an important contribution to
psychoanalytic history and to the history of French intellectual
life.
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