| Beyond Lacan Contributor(s): Mellard, James M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791469034 ISBN-13: 9780791469033 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2006 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Psychology | Movements - Humanistic |
| Dewey: 801.92 |
| LCCN: 2005036229 |
| Series: SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.36" W x 9.04" (1.19 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Beyond Lacan, James M. Mellard traces psychoanalytic literary theory and practice from Freud to Lacan to Z iz ek. While Freud effectively presupposes an unconscious that is textual, it is Lacan whose theory all but articulates a textual unconscious as he offers the epoch a cutting-edge psychoanalytic ideology. Mellard considers this and then asks, "Which Lacan? Is there one or many? Early or late?" As Z iz ek counters the notion of a single, unitary Lacan, Lacanians are asked to choose. Through Lacanian readings of various texts, from novels like Ellison's Invisible Man and O'Connor's Wise Blood to short stories by Glaspell and Fitzgerald, Mellard shows that in critical practice Lacanians produce a middle Lacan, between early and late. Mellard concludes by examining why Z iz ek has perhaps transcended Lacan. More than any other, it is Z iz ek who has constructed early and late Lacan, making possible that middle Lacan of praxis, but in the process he has also claimed an independent authority. Ultimately, Mellard explains how Z iz ek offers a post-Lacanian critique--one built on a pervasive philosophy of paradox--that opens new avenues of analysis of contested cultural and literary issues such as subjectivity, political economy, multiculturalism, and religious belief. |