Jacques Lacan : pschoanalysis and the subject of literature / Jean-Michel Rabaté.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949-

Series:

Transitions (Palgrave (Firm))

Transitions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Criticism.

Physical Description:

xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-221) and index.

ISBN:

0333793048

0333793056

OCLC:

44046804