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The Cultural Dialectics of Knowledge and Desire

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Offering a cognitive and psychoanalytic approach, this work asks why culture is a problem that can never be solved. It develops a theory of cultural dialectics based on the concept of paradox, in which it shows how ambivalence and conflicts are at the heart of all cultural knowledge systems.

256 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1996

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