History After Lacan

Lacan was not an ahistorical post-structuralist. Starting from this controversial premiss, Teresa Brennan tells the story of a social psychosis. She begins by recovering Lacan''s neglected theory of history which argued that we are in the grip of a psychotic''s era which began in the seventeenth century and climaxes in the present.By extending and elaborating Lacan''s theory, Brennan develops a ge...