Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan

Klappentext This book is a definitive study of Lacan's theoretical development across his entire career. Zusammenfassung This is the first book to explore Lacan's theory of poetry and its relationship to subjectivity and history. Chaitin's lucid study explores Lacan's move beyond the polarities of poetics and philosophy to embrace literature's role in the creation of self hood. This book is a definitive study of Lacan's theoretical development across the entire career. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Gilbert D. Chaitin, Gilbert D. (Indiana University) Chaitin
• Assisted by: Anthony Cascardi (Editor), Richard Macksey (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.1996
• EAN: 9780521497282
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49728-2
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Society for Experimental Biolo
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies