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Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious: Inhabiting the Ground

By Tim Dean

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1991
ISBN
0333492943, 9780333492949
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
15 MB (15774221 bytes)
Series
New directions in American studies
Pages
264\261
Time added
2015-01-31 20:44:10

Description

This book presents a new theory of American culture based not on the phenomenologically- and existentially-derived vocabularies of consciousness, which have dominated earlier accounts, but rather on a revitalized notion of the unconscious. Drawing on the writings of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Dean develops a theory of the constitution of the very notion of America itself as based on a complicated relation to the American landscape.

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