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JACQUES LACAN: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE SUBJECT OF LITERATURE = ЖАК ЛАКАН: ПСИХОАНАЛИЗ И ПРЕДМЕТ ИЗУЧЕНИЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ

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Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the Subject of Literature = Жак Лакан: Психоанализ и предмет изучения литературы / Rabate, Jean-Michel. – 2001. – ISBN 0-333-79304-8.

Author
Rabate, Jean-Michel
Year of publication
2001
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Language
English
Publication type
Book
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Description

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.