Read my desire - Joan Copjec

In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between
the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists
of two powerful modern disciplines-psychoanalysis and historicism.
Ordinarily, these modes of thinking only cross paths long enough for
historicists to charge psychoanalysis with an indifference to history,
but here psychoanalysis, via Lacan, goes on the offensive. Refusing to
cede history to the historicists, Copjec makes a case for the
superiority of Lacan's explanation of historical processes and
generative principles. Her goal is to inspire a new kind of cultural
critique, one that is "literate in desire," and capable of interpreting
what is unsaid in the manifold operations of culture.