Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780333793053)

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.

Author: Jean-Michel Rabat?
ISBN-10: 0333793056
ISBN-13: 9780333793053
Publisher: Red Globe Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2001
Pages: 225
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.51w x 0.50d