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Author Lundberg, Christian O. (Christian Oscar), author.

Title Lacan in public : psychoanalysis and the science of rhetoric / Christian Lundberg
Published Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 227 pages)
Series Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Contents On failed unicity: rhetoric and structuralist poetics -- Locating rhetoric -- speech/communication -- Toward an economy of trope -- Reference, enjoyment, and the materiality of rhetoric -- Lacan in public -- Trope, affect, and public subjectivity
Summary Lacan in Public argues that Lacan's contributions to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and that rhetoric is in fact the central concern of Lacan's entire body of work. Scholars typically cite Jacques Lacan as a thinker primarily concerned with issues of desire, affect, politics, and pleasure. Scholars who identify themselves as rhetoricians have rarely cited Lacan as a significant influence in their own field. Though Lacan explicitly contends with some of the pivotal thinkers in the field of rhetoric (Aristotle, Cic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981 fast
Subject Rhetoric
Psychoanalysis and literature.
Psychoanalytic interpretation.
Structuralism (Literary analysis)
Criticism -- History -- 20th century
rhetoric (discipline)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric.
REFERENCE -- Writing Skills.
Criticism
Psychoanalysis and literature
Psychoanalytic interpretation
Rhetoric
Structuralism (Literary analysis)
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012015850
ISBN 9780817386412
0817386416
9780817386412