The Purloined Poe : Lacan, Derrida, and psychoanalytic reading / edited by John P. Muller and William J. Richardson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muller, John P., 1940-

Richardson, William J. (William John), 1920-2016.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Purloined letter.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Derrida, Jacques.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Criticism.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 394 pages, 4 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Baltimore ; London : The Johns Hopkins University Press, [1988]

Summary:

In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed an interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radically new conception of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far-reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn has spawned further responses from Barbara Johnson, Jane Gallop, Irene Harvey, Norman Holland, and others. The Purloined Poe brings Poe's story together with these readings to provide, in the words of the editors, "a structured exercise in the elaboration of textual interpretation."

The Purloined Poe reprints the full text of Poe's story, followed by Lacan's "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter,'" along with extensive commentary by the editors. Marie Bonaparte's and Shoshana Felman's discussions of traditional and contemporary approaches to "psychoanalyzing" texts precede Alan Bass's new translation of Derrida's "Purveyor of Truth." The subsequent essays join the Lacan-Derrida debate and offer alternative readings by literary theorists, philosophers, psychologists, and psychoanalysts. The Purloined Poe convenes much of the most important current scholarship on "The Purloined Letter" and presents a rich sampling of poststructuralist discourse.

Contents:

1 Poe and Lacan 1

1 Text of "The Purloined Letter," with Notes / Thomas Ollive Mabbott 3

2 Seminar on "The Purloined Letter," translated by Jeffrey Mehlman / Jacques Lacan 28

3 Lacan's Seminar on "The Purloined Letter": Overview 55

4 Lacan's Seminar on "The Purloined Letter": Map of the Text 77

5 Lacan's Seminar on "The Purloined Letter": Notes to the Text 83

2 On Psychoanalytic Reading 99

6 Selections from The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Psycho-analytic Interpretation / Marie Bonaparte 101

7 On Reading Poetry: Reflections on the Limits and Possibilities of Psychoanalytic Approaches / Shoshana Felman 133

3 Derrida and Responses 157

8 The Challenge of Deconstruction 159

9 The Purveyor of Truth, translated by Alan Bass / Jacques Derrida 173

10 The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida / Barbara Johnson 213

11 Structures of Exemplarity in Poe, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida / Irene Harvey 252

12 The American other / Jane Gallop 268

4 Other Readings 283

13 Narratorial Authority and "The Purloined Letter" / Ross Chambers 285

14 Re-covering "The Purloined Letter": Reading as a Personal Transaction / Norman N. Holland 307

15 The Shadow's Shadow: The Motif of the Double in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter" / Liahna Klenman Babener 323

16 A Note on Time in "The Purloined Letter" / Francois Peraldi 335

17 Negation in "The Purloined Letter": Hegel, Poe, and Lacan / John Muller 343.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-381) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is "A Johns Hopkins Paperback".

ISBN:

0801832926

0801832934

OCLC:

15591077