The Literary Lacan

Author : Santanu Biswas
Publisher : Unknown
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Release : 2024-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1803094532

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The Literary Lacan by Santanu Biswas Pdf

Some of the most well-known psychoanalysts and literary theorists explore Jacques Lacan's influence on literature. The relationship between literature and psychology is long and richly complex, and no more so than in the work of Jacques Lacan, the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. The Literary Lacan: From Literature to "Lituraterre" and Beyond is dedicated to assessing Lacan's significant contribution to literary studies and the contribution, in turn, of literature to Lacanian psychoanalysis. The first essays in this collection provide close readings of Lacan's literature-related work, specifically his work on Hamlet, his homage to Marguerite Duras and Lewis Carroll, his concept of Lituraterre, and his seminar on James Joyce. Other essays examine Lacan's theories in conjunction with the works of major writers such as Samuel Beckett. The book concludes with essays that investigate Lacan and literature more broadly, including the applicability of literature to psychoanalysis. With well-known contributors including Slavoj Zizek, Jacques-Alain Miller, Russell Grigg, and Ellie Ragland, this volume will appeal not only to specialists in literary and Lacanian theory but also to students and enthusiasts of the master and the literature that inspired him.

Author : Ben Stoltzfus
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996-07-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781438421360

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Lacan and Literature by Ben Stoltzfus Pdf

Winner of the 1997 Gradiva Award for Best Book (Cultural Arts Related) awarded by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) Using Lacanian psychoanalytic theory in order to uncover the relationship between literature, reading, and the unconscious, this book argues for a special affinity between a text and its reader. This process strives to unveil the disguises of tropic language in order to generate manifest meaning from latent content. Focusing on five twentieth-century writers: D.H. Lawrence, Ernest Hemingway, Albert Camus, Roland Barthes, and Alain Robbe-Grillet, this book shows how Freud's theories of condensation and displacement in dreams match Lacan's uses of metaphor and metonymy in language. Despite the different backgrounds of these authors from America, England, and France, the unifying theme is that the unconscious (because it is structured like language) is the voice of the (m)Other disguised in figurative language.

Author : Ankhi Mukherjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316512180

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After Lacan by Ankhi Mukherjee Pdf

This book explores the phases of Jacques Lacan's career and examines the past, present, and future of psychoanalysis.

Author : Santanu Biswas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : UCSD:31822041272055

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The Literary Lacan by Santanu Biswas Pdf

The relationship between literature and psychology is long and richly complex, and no more so than in the work of Jacques Lacan, the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud. The Literary Lacan: From Literature to 'Lituraterre' and Beyond is dedicated to assessing Lacan's significant contribution to literary studies and the contribution, in turn, of literature to Lacanian psychoanalysis. The first essays in this collection provide close readings of Lacan's literature-related work, specifically his work on Hamlet, his homage to Marguerite Duras and Lewis Carroll, his concept of Lituraterre, and his seminar on James Joyce. Other essays examine Lacan's theories in conjunction with works of major writers such as Samuel Beckett. The book concludes with essays that investigate Lacan and literature more broadly, including the applicability of literature to psychoanalysis. With well-known contributors including Slavoj Zizek, Jacques-Alain Miller, Russell Grigg and Ellie Ragland, this volume will appeal not only to specialists in literary and Lacanian theory but also to students and enthusiasts of the master and the literature that inspired him.

Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137060709

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Jacques Lacan by Jean-Michel Rabaté Pdf

The French theorist Lacan has always been called a 'literary' theoretician. Here is, for the first time, a complete study of his literary analyses and examples, with an account of the importance of literature in the building of his highly original system of thought. Rabate offers a systematic genealogy of Lacan's theory of literature, reconstructing a doctrine based upon Freudian insights, and revitalised through close readings of authors as diverse as Poe, Gide, Shakespeare, Plato, Claudel, Genet, Duras and Joyce. Not simply an essay about Lacan's influences or style, this book shows how the emergence of key terms like the 'letter' and the 'symptom' would not have been possible without innovative readings of literary texts.

Author : Josephine Sharoni
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789004336582

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Lacan and Fantasy Literature by Josephine Sharoni Pdf

A Lacanian reading of fantasy fiction 1887-1914 showing the return of atavistic horrors in the wake of the dissolution of traditional authorities. The book shows the critical power of fantasy read in conjunction with psychoanalysis in exploring profound socio-political questions.

Author : Ehsan Azari
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781847063793

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Lacan and the Destiny of Literature by Ehsan Azari Pdf

An original study aiming to explain fully Lacanian thought and apply it to the study of literary texts.

Author : James M. Mellard
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 025206173X

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Using Lacan, Reading Fiction by James M. Mellard Pdf

Author : Santanu Biswas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040104873

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The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan by Santanu Biswas Pdf

The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan considers the three key phases of Lacan’s interest in literary topics. Santanu Biswas first examines the seminars given between 1955 and 1961, in which Lacan spoke on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story "The Purloined Letter", Hamlet, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Paul Claudel’s The Coûfontaine Trilogy, and where literature is related to meaning. This is followed by an exploration of Lacan’s seminar on "Lituraterre" in 1971, wherein Lacan elaborates on the different ways in which literature appeared to turn towards lituraterre. Finally, Biswas considers Lacan’s 1975–1976 seminar on James Joyce, who created literature out of “litter” and was concerned with jouissance rather than with meaning. The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan will be of great interest to Lacanian psychoanalysts, other mental health practitioners interested in the teachings of Lacan, and academics and students of Lacanian studies, literature, and psychoanalysis.

Author : Ben Stoltzfus
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791429318

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Lacan and Literature by Ben Stoltzfus Pdf

This book of literary criticsm uses Lacanian psychoanalytic theory to explicate Roland Barthes, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, and Alain Robbe-Grillet.

Author : JEAN MICHEL RABATE
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000754087

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Knots by JEAN MICHEL RABATE Pdf

This collection of specially commissioned essays offers a wide array of new psychoanalytic approaches impacted by Lacanian theory, queer studies, post-colonial studies, feminism, and deconstruction in the domains of film and literature. We have witnessed a remarkable return to psychoanalysis in those fields, fields from which it had been excluded or discredited for a while. This has changed recently, and we need to understand why. The fourteen essays make use a freshly minted psychoanalytic concepts to read diverse texts, films and social practices. The distinguished authors gathered here, an international group of scholars coming from Japan, China, Korea, India, Belgium, Greece, France, Australia, and the USA, are all cognizant of the advances of theory under the form of deconstruction, feminism, post-colonial studies and trauma studies. These essays take into account the latest developments in Lacanian theory and never bracket off subjective agency when dealing with literature or film. The authors make sense of changes brought to psychoanalytical theory by redefinitions of the Oedipus complex, reconsiderations of the death drive, applications of Lacan’s symptom and the concept of the Real, reassessments of the links between affect and trauma, insights into the resilience of Romantic excess and jouissance, awareness of the role of transference in classical and modernist texts, and pedagogical techniques aimed at teaching difficult texts, all the while testifying to the influence on Lacanian theory of thinkers like Maurice Blanchot, Roland Barthes, Melanie Klein, Didier Anzieu, Jacques Derrida, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Alain Badiou, and Slavoj Zizek. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003002727

Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521002036

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The Cambridge Companion to Lacan by Jean-Michel Rabaté Pdf

This collection of specially commissioned essays, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Lacan's life and works.

Author : Elisabeth Roudinesco
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781781681626

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Lacan by Elisabeth Roudinesco Pdf

Jacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan’s career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our modernity. Lacan went against the current of many of the hopes aroused by 1968, but embraced their paradoxes, and his language games and wordplay resonate today as so many injunctions to replace rampant individualism with a heightened social consciousness. Widely recognized as the leading authority on Lacan, Élisabeth Roudinesco revisits his life and work: what it was – and what it remains.

Author : Marshall Needleman Armintor
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820469068

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Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity by Marshall Needleman Armintor Pdf

To understand the achievement of Jacques Lacan, one must turn to his roots. This book explores the grounding of Lacan's psychoanalytic work in the intellectual and artistic movements of the modernist period. More specifically, it examines masculine anxiety in the modernist novel in terms of Lacan's work on psychosis, masochism, and narcissism, viewed against the broader cultural context of the modernist era. In the process, this book illustrates how Lacan's intellectual apprenticeships and encounters (both real and imaginary) play out in his mature work, beginning with the first seminars of the 1950s. Like other thinkers of the early twentieth century, the trajectory of Lacan's psychoanalytic career is shaped by tendentious confrontations with peers, forebears, and intellectual traditions.

Author : Bruce Fink
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0816643202

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Lacan to the Letter by Bruce Fink Pdf

To read Lacan closely is to follow him to the letter, to take him literally, making the wager that he comes right out and says what he means in many cases, though much of his argument must be reconstructed through a line-by-line examination. And this is precisely what Bruce Fink does in this ambitious book, a fine analysis of Lacan's work on language and psychoanalytic treatment conducted on the basis of a very close reading of texts in his Icrits: A Selection. As a translator and renowned proponent of Lacan's works, Fink is an especially adept and congenial guide through the complexities of Lacanian literature and concepts. He devotes considerable space to notions that have been particularly prone to misunderstanding, notions such as "the sliding of the signified under the signifier,"or that have gone seemingly unnoticed, such as "the ego is the metonymy of desire." Fink also pays special attention to psychoanalytic concepts, like affect, that Lacan is sometimes thought to neglect, and to controversial concepts, like the phallus. From a parsing of Lacan's claim that "commenting on a text is like doing an analysis," to sustained readings of "The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious," "The Direction of the Treatment," and "Subversion of the Subject" (with particular attention given to the workings of the Graph of Desire), Fink's book is a work of unmatched subtlety, depth, and detail, providing a valuable new perspective on one of the twentieth century's most important thinkers. Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and professor of psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is the author of A Clinical Introduction to LacanianPsychoanalysis (1997) and The Lacanian Subject (1995). He has coedited three volumes on Lacan's seminars and is the translator of Lacan's Seminar XX, On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge (1998), Icrits: A Selection (2002), and Icrits: The Complete Text (forthcoming).