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Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan

Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan

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  • Date Published: September 1996
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521497657

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  • This is the first book to explore Lacan's theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject and historicity. Gilbert Chaitin's lucid and accessible study of this famously complex thinker shows how Lacan moves beyond the traditionally hostile polarities of poetics and philosophy. For Lacan, the subject is a complex interplay among psychoanalysis, rationality and history, a combination that enabled him to illuminate literature's role in the creation of selfhood. The ambiguities, contradictions and singularities in Lacan are explored in this definitive account of the theoretical development across his entire career.

    • First attempt to explain Lacan's theory of metaphor and metonymy
    • Covers all of Lacan's career - will be seen as a definitive study
    • Offers lucid accessible introduction but moves beyond this to be a critical interevention in its own right
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    • Date Published: September 1996
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521497657
    • length: 292 pages
    • dimensions: 216 x 140 x 17 mm
    • weight: 0.37kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Acknowledgements
    1. Introduction
    2. Treeing Lacan, or the meaning of metaphor
    3. A being of significance
    4. From logic to ethics: transference and the letter
    5. Desire and culture: transference and the other
    6. The subject and the symbolic order: Historicity, mathematics, poetry
    7. Conclusion: Lacan and contemporary criticism
    Bibliography
    Index.

  • Author

    Gilbert D. Chaitin, Indiana University

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