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Reading Lacan

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Description for Reading Lacan paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CF; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 457.

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.

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,' " ... Read more

Forceful and revealing, yet utterly candid about its own areas of uncertainty, Gallop's book will be indispensable to readers of Lacan and to scholars and students who have felt his impact.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801494437
SKU
V9780801494437
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About Jane Gallop
Jane Gallop is Associate Professor of French and Affiliate of Women's Studies at Miami University.

Reviews for Reading Lacan
Operating like characters in a narrative, Gallop's shifting reading strategies invigorate critical discourse by creating a theatre of interpretation. Reading Lacan accentuates the desire to interrogate the voices in any reading, and Gallop's stream of dialogue... provides a textual opportunity to discourse on Lacanian theory.... Rejecting the traditional endings of novels, the limited options of marriage and death, Gallop's account ... Read more

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