What do you think?
Rate this book
The Beatles With Lacan: Rock'n' Roll as Requiem for the Modern Age
The Beatles were the most significant cultural phenomenon of their time, but what exactly did they signify? Using a psychoanalytic approach, The Beatles with Lacan attempts to answer this still relevant question. It argues that Beatlemania and the music of Lennon/McCartney highlighted the end of the Modern Age as it had been expressed in the ideals of the Enlightenment. The albums from Revolver (1966) to Abbey Road (1969) are seen collectively as the first popular post-modern classic of western music, and the Beatles themselves as cultural pioneers of enduring achievement.
218 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1995
2 people are currently reading
28 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
December 21, 2025
(3.5)
some chapters were definitely stronger than others. It's hard for me to rate books in quantitative terms in general so the number is kinda irrelevant n a placeholder. However I was really pleasantly surprised to read someone articulating my own thoughts in such a comprehensive manner -- though often the theoretical aspects, to me, felt overexplained and redundant. Personally the highlights for me were the bits on peppers modernist funeral and johns psychosexual analysis. Oh also the short rumination on John as a political agitator I thought was really well articulated and in the context of 70sb neoconservativism I definitely feel like his political contributions r forced into a forced dichotomy that I have not yet read anyone else write about!! in general I have my own thoughts on Lacan but I feel like that's once again irrelevant bc in my motivations for reading its just a lens text. Anyway. I had a lot of fun reading this one
some chapters were definitely stronger than others. It's hard for me to rate books in quantitative terms in general so the number is kinda irrelevant n a placeholder. However I was really pleasantly surprised to read someone articulating my own thoughts in such a comprehensive manner -- though often the theoretical aspects, to me, felt overexplained and redundant. Personally the highlights for me were the bits on peppers modernist funeral and johns psychosexual analysis. Oh also the short rumination on John as a political agitator I thought was really well articulated and in the context of 70sb neoconservativism I definitely feel like his political contributions r forced into a forced dichotomy that I have not yet read anyone else write about!! in general I have my own thoughts on Lacan but I feel like that's once again irrelevant bc in my motivations for reading its just a lens text. Anyway. I had a lot of fun reading this one
Displaying 1 of 1 review