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Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the self by Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and other French thinkers. Arguing that the widely shared belief that the boundaries between self and other had disappeared during the Great War helps explain the genesis of the new concept of the self, Dean examines an array of evidence from medical texts and literary works alike. The Self and Its Pleasures offers a pathbreaking understanding of the boundaries between theory and history.

Why did France spawn the radical poststructuralist rejection of the humanist concept of 'man' as a rational, knowing subject? In this innovative cultural history, Carolyn J. Dean sheds light on the origins of poststructuralist thought, paying particular attention to the reinterpretation of the self by Jacques Lacan, Georges Bataille, and other French thinkers. Arguing that the widely shared belief that the boundaries between self and other had disappeared during the Great War helps explain the genesis of the new concept of the self, Dean examines an array of evidence from medical texts and literary works alike. The Self and Its Pleasures offers a pathbreaking understanding of the boundaries between theory and history.

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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Introduction
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Part One: Psychoanalysis and the Self
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  1. 1. The Legal Status of the Irrational
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  1. PART ONE Psychoanalysis and the Self
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  1. 2. Gender Complexes
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  1. 1. The Legal Status of the Irrational
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  1. 3. Sight Unseen (Reading the Unconscious)
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  1. 2. Gender Complexes
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  1. Part Two: Sade's Selflessness
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  1. 3. Sight Unseen (Reading the Unconscious)
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  1. 4. The Virtue of Crime
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  1. PART TWO Sade’s Selflessness
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  1. 5. The Pleasure of Pain
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  1. 4. The Virtue of Crime
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  1. Part Three: Headlessness
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  1. 5. The Pleasure of Pain
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  1. 6. Writing and Crime
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  1. PART THREE Headlessness
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  1. 7. Returning to the Scene of the Crime
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  1. Conclusion
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  1. 7. Returning to the Scene of the Crime
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  1. Selected Bibliography
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  1. Conclusion
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  1. Index
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  1. Copyright
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