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Critical essays on Jacques Lacan

This book offers essays to examine the new theory of literary language and knowledge presented by Jacques Lacan and includes a biographical introduction
Print Book, English, ©1999
G.K. Hall, New York, ©1999
History
xvii, 181 pages ; 24 cm.
9780783804514, 0783804512
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Publisher's Noteix
Prefacexi
Acknowledgmentsxiii
Chronologyxv
Introduction1(18)
Ellie Ragland
ESSAYS
Lacan Clinician
19(17)
Jacques-Alain Miller
Lacan with Scholasticism: Agencies of the Letter
36(13)
Richard R. Glejzer
[From ``Vital Signs: The Place of Memory in Psychoanalysis'']
49(21)
Charles Shepherdson
Literature as Symptom
70(6)
Colette Soler
Freud's Jewish Science and Lacan's Sinthome
76(13)
David Metzger
Fictions
89(13)
Stuart Schneiderman
Lacan's Theory of Sublimation: A New Look at Sophocles's Antigone
102(17)
Ellie Ragland
The Palace of Thought
119(23)
John Holland
[From Tableau (``Painting'')]
142(7)
Gerard Wajcman
``The Hypothesis of Compacity in Chapter 1 of Encore: Seminar XX (1972--1973)''
149(12)
Genevieve Morel
Selected Bibliography161(4)
Notes on Contributors165(2)
Index167
Some essays have been translated from French and Spanish