Quotes by : Terry Eagleton

So there is nothing inherently subversive about pleasure. On the contrary, as Karl Marx recognized, it....

Language, the unconscious, the parents, the symbolic order: these terms in Lacan are not exactly synonymous,....

What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned....

Woman is the opposite, the ‘other’ of man: she is non-man, defective man, assigned a chiefly negative....

Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’....

A socialist is just someone who is unable to get over his or her astonishment that most people who have....

Even in the act of fleeing modern ideologies, however, literary theory reveals its often unconscious....

Marx was troubled by the question of why ancient Greek art retained an ‘eternal charm’, even though....

Interestingly, this speech by Prospero does not contrast the unreality of the stage with the solid, flesh-and-blood....

Lacan, as we have seen in our discussion of Freud, regards the unconscious as structured like a language.....