1st Edition
Lacanian Non-Rapport in the Novels of John Fowles Impossible Relationships
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Fowles but Were Afraid to Ask Lacan
Chapter 1 Lacan on Sexual Non-Rapport: Key Propositions
Chapter 2 “I will still have my woman-me he can never touch”: Perversion and Sexual Non-rapport in The Collector
Chapter 3 “And you wouldn’t marry me because I’m a whore and a colonial”: Anxiety and Sexual Non-rapport in The Magus
Chapter 4 “Eyes a man could drown in”: Phallic Myth and Femininity in The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Chapter 5 “He has a Mistress. Her name is Loss”: “Abortive Romances” and the Question of Traversing the Fantasy of Sexual Rapport in Daniel Martin
Chapter 6 “if this wasn’t an unwritable non-text”: Phallic Failure, Invasion of Jouissance and Uninscribability of Sexual Rapport in Mantissa
Chapter 7 “So great it may hardly be said in words”: Phallic Impotency and Other Jouissance in A Maggot
Conclusion
Biography
Mahitosh Mandal is Assistant Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. He earned his BA (Hons), MA, MPhil, and PhD from the Department of English, Jadavpur University. His research interests include literature and psychoanalysis, Holocaust and popular culture, and Dalit and marginality studies. He is the author of Jacques Lacan: From Clinic to Culture (2018) and co-editor of Holocaust vs. Popular Culture: Interrogating Incompatibility and Universalization (Routledge, 2023). His latest co-edited volume is Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts (Routledge, 2026). His research has appeared in leading academic journals including Lacunae: APPI International Journal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, and Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion.
