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The Cambridge Companion to Lacan
Jean-Michel Rabate
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Paperback. This collection of specially commissioned essays, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Lacan's life and works. Editor(s): Rabate, Jean-Michel. Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; DSK; HPC; JMA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 514.
This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. Advocating a 'return to Freud', by which he meant a close reading in the original of Freud's works, he stressed the idea that the unconscious functions 'like a language'. All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacan's ... Read more
This collection of specially commissioned essays by academics and practising psychoanalysts, first published in 2003, explores key dimensions of Jacques Lacan's life and works. Lacan is renowned as a theoretician of psychoanalysis whose work is still influential in many countries. He refashioned psychoanalysis in the name of philosophy and linguistics at the time when it underwent a certain intellectual decline. Advocating a 'return to Freud', by which he meant a close reading in the original of Freud's works, he stressed the idea that the unconscious functions 'like a language'. All essays in this Companion focus on key terms in Lacan's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Companions to Literature
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521002035
SKU
V9780521002035
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About Jean-Michel Rabate
Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent books are Joyce and the Politics of Egoism, and The Future of Theory.
Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to Lacan
"Superb... this book shoud appeal to anyone interested in the development of Freudian thought and the history of ideas concerning human subjectivity. Highly recommended." Choice