Lacanian Ethics and the Desire for Law

Authors

David S. Caudill, Washington & Lee University

Abstract

American Critical Legal Studies has its own antinomies, its own indeterminacies, such that it is difficult to talk as though it is a unified position or movement, or even a single methodology or strategy. Generally, however, those who are suspicious of Critical Legal Studies have, from the beginning, aSked how the critical theorist explains his or her own ideology, and the answer is often that ideology is inescapable. Thus the critical project is about disclosure of ideology, not about the claim to know the truth outside ideology.

Disciplines

Law | Law and Society | Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility | Psychiatry and Psychology

Recommended Citation

David S. Caudill, Lacanian Ethics and the Desire for Law, 16 Cardozo L. Rev. 793 (1995).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol16/iss3/4