The Anti-Oedipus Complex - 9781138692343

Taylor & Francis

The Anti-Oedipus ComplexLacan, Critical Theory and Postmodernism\nAuthor(s): Rob Weatherill\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138692343, 978-1138692343\nSynopsis\nThe Anti-Oedipus Complex critically explores the post-68 dramatic developments in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Beginning with the decline of patriarchy and the master, exemplified by Freuds paean for the Father, the revolutionary path was blown wide open by anti-psychiatry, schizoanalysis and radical politics, the complex antinomies of which are traced here in detail with the help of philosophers such as Nietzsche, Baudrillard, Levinas, Steiner, iek, Badiou, Derrida and Girard, as well as theologians, analysts, writers, musicians and film makers. \n\nIn this book, Rob Weatherill, starting from the clinic, considers the end of hierarchies, the loss of the Other, new subjectivities, so-called creative destruction, the power of negati.