Purloined Poe Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading

In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed an interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radical new concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn spawned further responses from other writers. "The Purloined Poe" brings Poe's story together with these readings to provide a structured exercise in the elaboration of text interpretation.

About the author

John Muller is Director of Education at the Austen Riggs Center. He is coeditor of The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading (also available from Johns Hopkins University Press) and the author of Beyond the Psychoanalytic Dyad: Developmental Semiotics in Freud, Peirce, and Lacan.William J. Richardson is professor of philosophy at Boston College. He is the coauthor of Lacan and Language: A Reader's Guide to Ecrits.

Product details

• Assisted by: John P. Muller (Editor), William J. Richardson (Editor), John P. Ph. D. Muller (Editor), Muller John P. (Editor)
• Authors: John P. Muller, John P. (Austen Riggs Center Muller
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 26.11.1987
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9780801832932
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-3293-2
• Pages: 408
• Subjects: Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis