Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature

Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature
ISBN-10
1137060700
ISBN-13
9781137060709
Series
Jacques Lacan
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
225
Language
English
Published
2001-02-20
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Author
Jean-Michel Rabaté

Description

The French theorist Lacan has always been called a 'literary' theoretician. Here is, for the first time, a complete study of his literary analyses and examples, with an account of the importance of literature in the building of his highly original system of thought. Rabate offers a systematic genealogy of Lacan's theory of literature, reconstructing a doctrine based upon Freudian insights, and revitalised through close readings of authors as diverse as Poe, Gide, Shakespeare, Plato, Claudel, Genet, Duras and Joyce. Not simply an essay about Lacan's influences or style, this book shows how the emergence of key terms like the 'letter' and the 'symptom' would not have been possible without innovative readings of literary texts.

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