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Psychoanalysis and--
Psychoanalysis and . . . brings together essays by critics whose work demonstrates the lively interpenetration of psychoanalysis and other disciplines. Andrew Ross investigates psychoanalysis and Marxist thought; Joel Fineman reads the "sound of O" in Othello ; Jane Gallop asks "Why does Freud giggle when the women leave the room?"; and Ellie Ragland-Sullivan examines Lacan's seminars on James Joyce. This stimulating collection of new work will be required reading, especially for students of literature.
224 pages, Hardcover
First published December 13, 1989
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July 4, 2018
In his essay on "The Politics of Impossibility" in this collection, Andrew Ross rails against François Roustang's criticism that Lacanism is founded on logic that produces little more than disciples, facsimiles, epigones. Ross may not like this claim, he may dismiss it as "extreme," but when I was reading through this collection, it was hard not to agree with Roustang's position. This book is a piece of scholarly mediocrity, a group of essays with lots of expertise but little that is innovative or insightful.
I am a big fan of Jane Gallop's work, but it is clear that the editors included her chapter in here simply so they could parade her name in the credits. Her contribution is slight in both topic and length - a mere four and a half pages.
The only redeeming feature of this collection is the essay by Slavoj Žižek, titled "The Limits of the Semiotic Approach to Psychoanalysis." As always, bits and pieces of this essay are recycled elsewhere in Žižek's work - the parts about Kafka, for instance, reappear almost word for word in Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture - but this chapter stands out like a sore thumb amidst a sea of academic dullness and mediocrity.
I am a big fan of Jane Gallop's work, but it is clear that the editors included her chapter in here simply so they could parade her name in the credits. Her contribution is slight in both topic and length - a mere four and a half pages.
The only redeeming feature of this collection is the essay by Slavoj Žižek, titled "The Limits of the Semiotic Approach to Psychoanalysis." As always, bits and pieces of this essay are recycled elsewhere in Žižek's work - the parts about Kafka, for instance, reappear almost word for word in Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular Culture - but this chapter stands out like a sore thumb amidst a sea of academic dullness and mediocrity.
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