Rhetoric and Culture in Lacan

by Gilbert D. Chaitin

Book Overview

This is the first book to explore Lacan's theory of poetry and its relationship to his understanding of the subject and historicity. Gilbert Chaitin's lucid and accessible study of this famously complex thinker shows how Lacan moves beyond the traditionally hostile polarities of poetics and philosophy. For Lacan, the subject is a complex interplay among psychoanalysis, rationality and history, a combination that enabled him to illuminate literature's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521497655
• ISBN13: 9780521497657
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"