After Lacan - Literature, Theory and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century

This book explores the phases of Jacques Lacan's career and examines the past, present, and future of psychoanalysis.

List of contents

Introduction Ankhi Mukherjee; Part I. Fundamental Concepts: 1. Voice after Lacan Mladen Dolar; 2. Freud's return to Lacan Anna Kornbluh; 3. Beyond the Oedipus complex Tracy McNulty; 4. Psychoanalysis as poetry in Lacan's clinical paradigm Dany Nobus; Part II. After Lacan: 5. The queer repression of Lacan Merrill Cole; 6. Cinema after Lacan Todd McGowan; 7. Lacan and politics Jodi Dean; 8. Lacan and race Azeen Khan; Part III. Beyond Lacan: 9. Lacan and disability studies Anna Mollow; 10. Lacan and new media Clint Burnham; 11. Islam after Lacan Nouri Gana.

About the author

Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Wadham College. She is the author of Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (2007) and What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (2014), which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in English Literature in 2015. She has edited A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture (2014, with Laura Marcus).

Summary

This book draws on the distinct phases of Jacques Lacan's career to show the exfoliation of his way of thinking in and beyond his lifetime. It examines the past, present, and futures of psychoanalysis. This book is for students, graduates ad instructors of literary theory, psychoanalysis, and the works of Lacan.

Product details

• Authors: Ankhi Mukherjee, Ankhi (University of Oxford) Mukherjee
• Assisted by: Ankhi Mukherjee (Editor), Ankhi (University of Oxford) Mukherjee (Editor), Mukherjee Ankhi (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9781316512180
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51218-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: The After Series; After; After; The After Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Literary theory, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)