Title: Using Lacan, reading fiction /
Authors: Mellard, James M.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Lacan, Jacques, Contributions in criticism.; Lacan, Jacques,; American fiction History and criticism Theory, etc.; English fiction History and criticism Theory, etc.
Contents: Introduction. The insistence of language -- The structure of Lacanian thought -- Toward a Lacanian critical practice -- Conclusion -- Inscriptions of the subject : The scarlet letter . The 'normative' subject : Pearl, the mirror stage, and Oedipus -- Imaginary, symbolic, and the gaze : Hester -- Neurosis, symptoms, cure : Dimmesdale -- Psychosis, analyst, other : Chillingworth -- A 'countable unity' : The Lacanian subject in The beast in the jungle.- Zero : the empty set -- One : imaginary unity -- Two : The m(other) in the jungle -- Three : Oedipus at last -- Using Lacan : reading To the lighthouse. The imaginary and 'the window' -- The real and 'time passes' -- The symbolic and 'the lighthouse' -- Conclusion : using Lacan, reading otherwise.