Reading Lacan

✍ Scribed by Jane Gallop

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 201
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Reading Lancan's Ecrits --
The American other --
Where to begin? --
Directions for a return to Freud --
Interstory --
Metaphor and metonymy --
Reading the phallus --
The dream of the dead author.

✦ Subjects

Lacan, Jacques, -- 1901-1981;Psychoanalysis;Psychoanalytic Theory;Psychanalyse;Psychoanalysis -- Lacan, Jacques - Critical studies