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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      04 September 2009
      15 August 1996
      ISBN:
      9780511518638
      9780521497282
      9780521497657
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511518638
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.455kg, 292 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.45kg, 292 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, Literary Theory, Philosophy
      Series:
      Literature, Culture, Theory (19)
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    Literature, Philosophy: General Interest, Literary Theory, Philosophy
    Series:
    Literature, Culture, Theory (19)
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    This is the first book to explore the full range and import of 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 mythos and logos, poetics and philosophy, to conceive of the subject as a complex interplay between psychoanalysis, rationality and history. Lacan's incorporation of historical necessity into the formation of subjectivity enables him to illuminate the role literature plays in the creation of selfhood. Lacan's metaphor of the subject, Chaitin argues, draws not only on Saussure, Jakobson, Freud, Heidegger and Hegel but on hitherto unacknowledged sources such as Bertrand Russell and I.A. Richards. Chaitin explores the ambiguities, contradictions and singularities of Lacan's immensely influential work to provide a definitive account of the theoretical development across his entire career.

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