Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious: Inhabiting the Ground (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333492949)

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.

Author: T. Dean
ISBN-10: 0333492943
ISBN-13: 9780333492949
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/31/1991
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d