The Literary Lacan
From Literature to Lituraterre and Beyond
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- Contents

Joyce with Lacan
Jacques-Alain Miller (Translated from the French by Russell Grigg)
Introduction
Part 1: The Literary Lacan
From the Letter to the Objet petit a: The Evolution of Lacan’s Literary Metaphors
Nancy Blake
Psychoanalysis Applicable and Inapplicable: The Case of Literature
Jean-Michel Rabaté
‘To Be or Not . . .’: Lacan and the Meaning of Being in Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Matthew Sharpe
Lewis Carroll and Psychoanalytic Criticism: Why Nothing Adds Up in Wonderland
Christopher Lane
Joyce: Lacan’s Sphinx
Geoff Boucher
Part 3: To Lituraterre
A Literary Introduction to ‘Lituraterre’
Santanu Biswas
The Littoral Condition of the Letter
Jean-Pierre Klotz
Part 4: And Beyond
Cogito in Literature: Descartes with Beckett
Slavoj Žižek
The Practice of the Letter and Topological Structure
Ellie Ragland
Reading Bhabha, Reading Lacan: Preliminary Notes on Colonial Anxiety
Gautam Basu Thakur
The Transsexual Body Written: Writing as Sinthome
Patricia Gherovici
Afterword
The Enigma of Jouissance
Russell Grigg
Notes on Contributors
Index
Literature and Literary Criticism: General Criticism and Critical Theory
Psychology: General Psychology
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