num_pages: 182
description: It could be argued that the influence of Lacan on modern literary studies has been greater than anyone's. Lacan has historicised the universal or mythic perceptions of Freud, and thus lent a new status to literature as a cultural artefact. This book, originally published in 1986, aims to delineate the trends in the uses made of Lacan today; to examine the theoretical substructure by which his work is accommodated to literature; and to analyse the way in which his work 'models' the formal relation of the literary text to other texts, to history and to politics.
language: English
title: Figuring Lacan: Criticism and the Cultural Unconscious
titlecomplete: Figuring Lacan: Criticism and the Cultural Unconscious (Critics of the 20th Century)
genres: Philosophy
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr