Jacques Lacan

ISBN-13: 9786204743929 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str.

Eman Kash-Koush

Opis

Jacques Lacan (1901-81) is one of the most influential and controversial psychoanalytic thinkers of the twentieth century. He has a great effect on developing the psychoanalytic critical theory by making use of Saussure's structural linguistics to produce a model of the unconscious which creates "a linguistically structured system of cultural symbols and social patterns." Thus, the unconscious is, for Lacan, no longer a mere seat of instincts, but rather an endless network of signifiers. On this basis, Lacan extracts his famous dictum that "the unconscious is structured like a language." Lacan's failure to apply his theory as well as the interest of most critics and writers in his ideas theoretically rather than practically make Lacan's theory imprisoned in a "theoretical claustrophobia." Hence, bridging the gap between Lacan's theory and practice is the main objective of this book by conducting the analytical method of three twentieth-century short stories from a Lacanian approach.

O autorze

Kash-Koush, EmanEman Abd El-Samei Kash-Koush is currently a Lecturer in English Literature (Literary Criticism) at the Dept. of English Language and Literature, Fac. of Arts, Benha University, Egypt. She received her BA in 2000, MA in 2008 and PhD in 2015 with first honor rank. Her academic interests include literary criticism, English and American literature.