| The Other Side of Desire: Lacan's Theory of the Registers Contributor(s): Van Pelt, Tamise (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791444759 ISBN-13: 9780791444757 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2000 Annotation: Van Pelt (English, Idaho State U.) uses Jacques Lacan's theoretical constructs to analyze texts such as Plato's Symposium, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and The Journals of Sylvia Plath. He rereads Lacan's essays on aggressivity, the mirror stage, the subversion of the subject, and the signification of the phallus, asserting Lacan's role in the intellectual transitions of the second half of the 20th century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Movements - Psychoanalysis - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 150.195 |
| LCCN: 99043545 |
| Series: Suny Series, Psychoanalysis and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.86" W x 9.21" (1.02 lbs) 205 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The other Side of Desire puts Jacques Lacan's theoretical constructs to work on texts as varied as Plato's Symposium, Hamlet, Tootsie, and the journals of Sylvia Plath, making the techniques of Lacanian analysis accessible to a wide variety of readers. Moving from oppositional readings of Lacan himself, through Lacan's search for an alternative to oppositionality, to his solution in the theory of the registers, Van Pelt rereads Lacan's most significant essays on aggressivity, the mirror stage, the subversion of the subject, and the signification of the phallus, making explicit the reading practices implicit in Lacan's first seven Seminars and his crits. Throughout, Van Pelt demonstrates Lacanian theory's pivotal role in the intellectual transition from the poststructuralism of the mid-twentieth century to the post-humanism of the twenty-first. |