{"product_id":"reading-lacan-the-uses-of-images-as-historical-evidence","title":"Reading Lacan: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eReading Lacan: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJane Gallop\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e0801415853\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCornell University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1985\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe influence of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan has extended into nearly every field of the humanities and social sciences--from literature and film studies to anthropology and social work. yet Lacan's major text, \u003ci\u003eEcrits\u003c\/i\u003e, continues to perplex and even baffle its readers. In \u003ci\u003eReading Lacan\u003c\/i\u003e, Jane Gallop offers a novel approach to Lacan's work based on his own theories of language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLacan locates truth in the letter rather than in the spirit-in the ways statements are expressed rather than in their intended meaning. Gallop here grapples with six of Lacan's essays from \u003ci\u003eEcrits\u003c\/i\u003e: \"The Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter, ' \" \"The Mirror Stage,\" \"The Freudian Thing, '' \"The Agency of the Letter in the Unconscious, '' \"The Signification of the Phallus,\" and \"The Subversion of the Subject.\" While other commentators have chosen not to confront Lacan's notoriously problematic style in their discussions of his ideas, Gallop addresses herself directly to the problem and the practice of reading Lacan. She takes her direction from Lacan's view of subjectivity and offers a deeply personal, feminist reading of \u003ci\u003eEcrits\u003c\/i\u003e. Concentrating on the relation of desire and interpretation, she opens up the rich implications of Lacan's thought, for psychoanalytic theory, for the act of reading, and for knowledge itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForceful and revealing, yet utterly candid about its own areas of uncertainty, Gallop's book will be indispensable to readers of Lacan and to scholars and students who have felt his impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Reading Lacan: The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence | Jane Gallop | Hardcover | 0801415853 | Used: Very Good | Psychology 1516894 (temp: 22)","offer_id":48927925600408,"sku":"1516894","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/41Jd0YpHyeL.jpg?v=1777059273","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/reading-lacan-the-uses-of-images-as-historical-evidence","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}