Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious: Inhabiting the Ground

by Dean Robertson and Tim Dean

This book presents a new theory of American culture based not on the phenomenologically- and existentially-derived vocabularies of consciousness, which have dominated earlier accounts, but rather on a revitalized notion of the unconscious. Drawing on the writings of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Dean develops a theory of the constitution of the very notion of America itself as based on a complicated relation to the American landscape.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333492943
• ISBN13: 9780333492949
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"