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The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis

The Language of the Self: The Function of Language in Psychoanalysis

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Literary CriticismLinguisticsGeneral Psychology

ISBN10: 0801858178
ISBN13: 9780801858178
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Jan 15 1998
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

A classic work on Freud by one of France's foremost philosophers and literary critics.

Jacques Lacan's commentaries on Freud had revolutionary implications not only for the analytic movement but also for contemporary philosophy and literary criticism. Lacan held that if the unconscious, as Freud described it, exists, it functions linguistically, rather than symbolically or instinctually. He refers to the unconscious as a language: the discourse of the Other. In The Language of the Self Lacan offers a significant and fertile return to the heart of the Freudian texts.

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