1st Edition

Joyce and Lacan Reading, Writing, and Psychoanalysis

By Daniel Bristow Copyright 2017
200 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

248 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

What happens when the intellectual giant of twentieth-century literature, James Joyce, is made an object of consideration and cause of desire by the intellectual giant of modern psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan?         This is what  Joyce and Lacan  explores, in the three closely interrelated areas of reading, writing, and psychoanalysis, by delving into Joyce’s own relationship with... Read more

1. James Joyce, In and Out of Analysis  2. Was Joyce Mad? Not by a Transparent Sheet…  3. From Joyce-the-Symptom to the Sinthome  4. Joyce’s Knots: Death and Sex Before the Wake  5. Waking the Read: The Indelible Sigla of Finnegans Wake  6. The Object Meaning Raised to the Dignity of the Thing

Biography

Daniel Bristow received his doctorate from the University of Manchester in 2014. His writing is widely published and covers a range of topics in literature, theory, and psychoanalysis. He is co-founder of the Everyday Analysis Collective.

Daniel Bristow’s book is a fresh and most inspiring engagement with Jacques Lacan’s late theory, particularly with his reading of Joyce, and of several concepts resulting from this reading. Bristow takes us through this famously difficult material with great lucidity and erudition, as well as – perhaps most importantly – a very clear idea of where he wants to lead us, conceptually, as well as politically. — Alenka Zupančič