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The influence of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has extended into nearly every field of the humanities and social sciencesfrom 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. Lacan locates truth in the letter rather than in the spirit-in the ways statements are expressed rather than in their intended meaning. Gallop here grapples with six of Lacan's essays from Ecrits : "The Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter,' " "The Mirror Stage," "The Freudian Thing,'' "The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious,'' "The Signification of the Phallus," and "The Subversion of the Subject." While other commentators have chosen not to confront Lacan's notoriously problematic style in their discussions of his ideas, Gallop addresses herself directly to the problem and the practice of reading Lacan. She takes her direction from Lacan's view of subjectivity and offers a deeply personal, feminist reading of Ecrits . Concentrating on the relation of desire and interpretation, she opens up the ric

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Author

American Council of Learned Societies;Gallop, Jane

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801494437

Category

nonfiction