Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan
Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan
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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.
- First attempt to explain Lacan's theory of metaphor and metonymy
- Covers all of Lacan's career - will be seen as a definitive study
- Offers lucid accessible introduction but moves beyond this to be a critical interevention in its own right
Product details
September 1996Hardback
9780521497282
292 pages
216 × 140 × 21 mm
0.52kg
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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.
