The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic Reading

Book Overview

In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed as interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radically new conception of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far-reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn has spawned further responses from Barbara Johnson, Jane Gallop, Irene Harvey, Norman Holland, and others. The Purloined Poe brings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801832934
• ISBN13: 9780801832932
• Release Date: October 1987
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"

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Although I have not finished the book yet, I needed to respond to the other reviewer who wrote that this is not a good mystery. You dingbat! This is a work in philosophy and psychology, not fiction! If you don't even have the slightest clue regarding a text, do not review it!