How James Joyce Made His Name: A Reading of the Final Lacan
Book Details
- Publisher : The Other Press
- Published : 2002
- Category :
Lacanian Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 17073
- ISBN 13 : 9781892746511
- ISBN 10 : 1892746514
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In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, "The Synthome," acclaimed Lacanian scholar Roberto Harari deciphers Lacan's theories on James Joyce's work and significance in the history of literature, the modernization of psychoanalysis and the eternal problem of language.
Lacan's seminar measures the boundaries between creativity and neurosis. In this bold move past Freudian oedipal dynamics, we learn how poetry and wordplay may offer alternatives to neurotic pain and even psychotic delusions.
This new translation makes the intricacies of Lacan's seminar available to the English-speaking world for the first time. The author's accessible, vigorous prose explains the nuances of Lacanian theory with perfect clarity.
Roberto Harari, Ph.D., is the author of the bestseller Lacan's Seminar on "Anxiety": An Introduction. He has also collaborated on another 23 works, many of which are now translated, in addition to publishing more than 200 articles in major journals from diverse countries.
Luke Thurston is a Research Fellow in Languages and Literature at Robinson College, Cambridge. He is the author of Impossible Joyce: Psychoanalysis and Modernism and the editor of Re-inventing the System: Essays on the Final Lacan.