Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature

Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature

by Jean-Michel Rabaté
Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature

Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature

by Jean-Michel Rabaté

Paperback(2001)

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Overview

Jean-Michel Rabaté 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333793053
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/01/2001
Series: Transitions , #26
Edition description: 2001
Pages: 225
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)

About the Author

JEAN-MICHEL RABATE is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.
JEAN-MICHEL RABATE is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

General Editor's Preface
Lacan from Z to L: Or Against Interpretation
Lacan from A to L: Basic Lacanian Issues and Concepts
From Letters to Literature, and Gide
Poe and the Theory of the Letter
Hamlet and the Desire of the Mother
Antigone Between the Beautiful and the Sublime
Sade: Subverting the Law and the Jouissance of the Other
Ravishing Duras, or the Gift of Love
Tragedies and Comedies of Love: Plato, Claudel, Genet
Joyce's Jouissance , or a New Literary Symptom
Conclusion
Annotated Critical Bibliography
Index.

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From the Publisher

... Highly readable, packed with helpful background information, this book is sure to become a required text in literature and Lacan courses.' - Joan Copjec, Director, Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture, University of Buffalo

'In his reading of Lacan (Rabate) brings to bear a deep knowledge of the philosophical and psychological traditions within - and against - which Lacan worked, and an impressive intimacy with the literary texts, ranging form Sophocles' Antigone to Joyce's Finnegans Wake, which inspired so much of his discourse. To read this book is at once to be schooled in the wily iconoclasm of Lacan's cultural engagements and stimulated into fresh thought about the force and function of literature.' - Professor Derek Attridge, University of York

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