Lacan Against the Historicist

The subtitle of this book is Lacan Against the Historicist. The American Academy, I would say even now, is like in the mode of historicism? It's just, to me, the saddest thing about this book is that the subtitle is still totally appropriate. Yes. Where your mastery fails. That's very good. Exactly. What's interesting to me is that French only has one word. So it's interesting that in English, you can actually make a distinction that French doesn't allow you to make. But I think that notion of gaze so dominating. And what people really loved about it was it's tie with mastery and power,.