How James Joyce Made His Name:: A Reading of the Final Lacan

by Roberto Harari, Luke Thurston (Translator)

In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, “Le Sinthome,” Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics.

Lacan's seminar measures the boundaries between creativity and neurosis. We learn how poetry and wordplay may offer alternatives to neurotic pain and even psychotic delusions, with Joyce as our subject.

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.

In the extraordinary encounter between Lacan and Joyce, Harari reveals unexpected affinities between them both as theorists and writers. It illustrates how literature is the aesthetic domain that is closest to the analytic experience.

Genres: Psychoanalysis, Theory

392 pages, Paperback

First published July 17, 2002

Reviews

[Gina · Rating 5 out of 5]

Umm...yes. This is an awesome exploration of Lacan's 23rd seminar (_Le Sinthome_)and a fantastic exploration of Joyce, the Name of the Father, and the malleability of the symbolic order. Okay, I'm biased since I just used the hell out of this book in my Master's thesis.