1st Edition

Lacan Reading Joyce

By Colette Soler Copyright 2019
142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

142 Pages
by Routledge

This book discusses Jacques Lacan’s contribution to understanding the life and work of James Joyce, introducing Colette Soler’s influential reading to English readers for the first time. Focusing on Lacan’s famous Seminar on Joyce, the reader will no doubt learn much from Lacan, but also, as Soler shows, what Lacan learned from Joyce and what perhaps, without him, he would not have approached... Read more

Preamble; Introduction; Symptom, Sinthome; The Heretic; An Original Diagnosis; Symptoms; Borromean Art; The Stepladder; Art-dieure; Conclusion; Bibliography

Biography

Colette Soler has been practising and teaching psychoanalysis since 1975, most recently in the context of the School of the Forums of the Lacanian Field (Paris), which she founded. She began analytic training following an encounter with the teaching of Jacques Lacan. Her first areas of study were philosophy and psychopathology, andshe has taught both subjects at university level.