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Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature (Transitions)

By Jean-Michel Rabaté

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
0333793048, 9780333793046, 0333793056, 9780333793053
Open Library ID
OL17009405M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5295573 bytes)
Pages
234\234
Topic
Literature Literary
DPI
600
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Jean-Michel Rabat? offers a systematic genealogy of Lacan's theory of literature, reconstructing an original doctrine based upon Freudian insights and revitalized through close readings of authors as diverse as Poe, Gide, Shakespeare, Plato, Claudel, Sophocles, Sade, Genet, Duras, and Joyce. Not simply an essay about Lacan's influences or style, this book shows how the emergence of terms like the "letter" and the "symptom" would not have been possible without innovative readings of literary texts. Lacan's critique of "applied psychoanalysis" entails a new practice of psychoanalysis understood as a type of textual reading of the Unconscious.

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