Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan

by Gilbert D. Chaitin

Overview

This is the first book to explore Lacan's theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject and historicity. Gilbert Chaitin's lucid and accessible study of this famously complex thinker shows how Lacan moves beyond the traditionally hostile polarities of poetics and philosophy. For Lacan, the subject is a complex interplay among psychoanalysis, rationality and history, a combination that enabled him to illuminate literature's role in the creation of selfhood. The ambiguities, contradictions and singularities in Lacan are explored in this definitive account of the theoretical development across his entire career.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521497657
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/15/1996
Series:	Literature, Culture, Theory , #19
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.67(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Treeing Lacan, or the meaning of metaphor; 3. A being of significance; 4. From logic to ethics: transference and the letter; 5. Desire and culture: transference and the other; 6. The subject and the symbolic order: Historicity, mathematics, poetry; 7. Conclusion: Lacan and contemporary criticism; Bibliography; Index.