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Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature: Metaphoric Truth, Imaginary Fiction, Letter Jouissance, and Nomination book cover

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Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature Metaphoric Truth, Imaginary Fiction, Letter Jouissance, and Nomination

By Raul Moncayo Copyright 2024
126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge
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Lacanian Psychoanalysis and American Literature considers the psychoanalytic applications of three classic works of nineteenth-century literature, applying Lacanian concepts throughout. Moncayo imports the dynamisms and texture of three English and American stories with the aim of developing psychoanalytic theory, rather than simply confirming or applying previously adopted psychoanalytic... Read more
Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: The Contemporary state of American Literature

2. Literary Gems and the Logic of the Text

3. Tyche in Text and Analysis

4. Phantasm and Logic

5. Metaphoric truth, Imaginary Fiction, Letter Jouissance, and Nomination

6. Metaphor, the Censorship Bar, Metonymic desire, and Nomination

Biography

Raul Moncayo, PhD, is a supervising analyst and past founding member and former president of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, USA. He is the author of seven books on Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Together with Yang Yu and Hong Zhou, he founded the Beijing Center for Freudian and Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Research to transmit a Lacanian psychoanalysis with an ongoing, active engagement with Chinese culture. In 2019, he founded the Blue Mountain Zen Center of El Cerrito, California.

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