Reading Lacan / Jane Gallop.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gallop, Jane, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Psychoanalysis.

Biography & Autobiography.

Gender Studies.

Local Subjects:

Biography & Autobiography.

Gender Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The influence of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has extended into nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences-from literature and film studies to anthropology and social work. yet Lacan's major text, Ecrits, continues to perplex and even baffle its readers. In Reading Lacan, Jane Gallop offers a novel approach to Lacan's work based on his own theories of language.Lacan locates truth in the letter rather than in the spirit-in the ways statements are expressed rather than in their intended meaning. Gallop here grapples with six of Lacan's essays from Ecrits: "The Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter,' " "The Mirror Stage," "The Freudian Thing,'' "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious,'' "The Signification of the Phallus," and "The Subversion of the Subject." While other commentators have chosen not to confront Lacan's notoriously problematic style in their discussions of his ideas, Gallop addresses herself directly to the problem and the practice of reading Lacan. She takes her direction from Lacan's view of subjectivity and offers a deeply personal, feminist reading of Ecrits. Concentrating on the relation of desire and interpretation, she opens up the rich implications of Lacan's thought, for psychoanalytic theory, for the act of reading, and for knowledge itself.Forceful and revealing, yet utterly candid about its own areas of uncertainty, Gallop's book will be indispensable to readers of Lacan and to scholars and students who have felt his impact.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prefatory Material

1. Reading La can' s Ecrits

2. The American other ("Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'")

3. Where to Begin? ("The Mirror Stage")

4. Directions for a Return to Freud ("The Freudian Thing")

INTERSTORY

5. Metaphor and Metonymy ("The Agency of the Letter")

6. Reading the Phallus ("The Signification of the Phallus")

7. The Dream of the Dead Author ("The Subversion of the Subject")

POSTORY

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

9781501721601

1501721607

OCLC:

1076663284