After Lacan: Literature, Theory and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century (After Series)

After Lacan: Literature, Theory and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century (After Series)

by Ankhi Mukherjee (Editor)

Synopsis

This book draws on the distinct phases of Jacques Lacan's career to show his way of thinking in and beyond his lifetime. It is an examination of the past, present, and futures of psychoanalysis, as these are developed beyond in the dimensions of language, literature, logic, philosophy, visual culture, identity and sexuality, and politics. The interdisciplinary approach of the volume allows it to work across clinical, sociological, philosophical, and literary fields to both add dimensions to the literary/critical reception of Lacan and enable the system of Lacanian psychoanalysis to have a wider conversation. Re-examining the fundamental concepts of Lacanian theory in its historical contexts through the topological structures he inaugurated, After Lacan makes innovative critical interventions in contemporary debates on racism, Islam, the Communist Party, poetry, new media, disability identity, and queer theory. It is a key resource for students, graduates ad instructors of literary theory, psychoanalysis, and the works of Lacan.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 238
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01 Nov 2018

ISBN 10: 1108466486
ISBN 13: 9781108466486

Author Bio
Ankhi Mukherjee is the author of Aesthetic Hysteria: The Great Neurosis in Victorian Melodrama and Contemporary Fiction (2007), and What Is a Classic?: Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon (2014), which won the British Academy Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in English Literature in 2015. She has edited A Concise Companion to Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Culture (2014) with Laura Marcus.