Supposing the Subject

by Joan Copjec (Editor)

Experts from a variety of fields re-examine the origins of the subject as understood by Descartes, Kant and Hegel, and consider contemporary ideas that revive the subject, including queer theory and national identity. Contributors include Parveen Adams, Etienne Balibar, Homi Bhabha, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Juliet Flower MacCannell, Charles Shepardson, Mikkei Borch-Jacobsen, Elizabeth Grosz and Miaden Dolar.

Genres: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Theory

240 pages, Hardcover

First published November 17, 1994

About the author

Joan Copjec is a philosopher, theorist, author, feminist, and prominent American Lacanian psychoanalyst. She is the director of the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture at the University of Buffalo.

Reviews

[Bradley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fairly banal re-hashings of various thinkers in the psychoanalytical tradition. Fairly passe at this point, but still interesting for the sake that some of the big whigs in sexual, gender, and queer theory come together to write under the same title. Zizek is brilliant as usual, but spares his typical fireworks for straight away theory. Balibar talks about philosophical anthropology, interstingly too. Elizabeth Grosz's article was a wonderful juxtaposition of Foucault, Deleuze, Butler and Irigaray. All in all, a great place to start with psychoanalysis.