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Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan (Literature, Culture, Theory)

By Gilbert D. Chaitin

Book information

Year
1996
ISBN
9780521497282, 9780511518638, 0521497655, 0521497280, 0511518633, 9780521497657
LCC
PN98.H57 C43 1996
Open Library ID
OL23241297M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1494040 bytes)
Pages
290\290
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This is the first book to explore Lacan's theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject and historicity. Gilbert Chaitin's lucid and accessible study of this famously complex thinker shows how Lacan moves beyond the traditionally hostile polarities of poetics and philosophy. For Lacan, the subject is a complex interplay among psychoanalysis, rationality and history, a combination that enabled him to illuminate literature's role in the creation of selfhood. The ambiguities, contradictions and singularities in Lacan are explored in this definitive account of the theoretical development across his entire career.

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