The 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, Ecrits, continues to perplex and even baffle its readers. In Reading Lacan, Jane Gallop offers a novel approach to Lacan's work based on his own theories of language.
Reviews
"Operating like characters in a narrative, Gallop's shifting reading strategies invigorate critical discourse by creating a theatre of interpretation.
Reading Lacan accentuates the desire to interrogate the voices in any reading, and Gallop's stream of dialogue . . . provides a textual opportunity to discourse on Lacanian theory. . . . Rejecting the traditional endings of novels, the limited options of marriage and death, Gallop's account moves toward the plural possibilities of a feminist reading practice. . . . Gallop's navigation of 'doing reading' is a theatrical event essential for anyone invested in the process of reading as meaning-construction, but especially for feminist theorists seeking alternative structures to chart the experience of knowledge."—Susan David Bernstein,
Women's Review of Books
About the Author
Jane Gallop is Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the author of
Intersections: A Reading of Sade with Bataille, Blanchot, and Klossowski; Thinking Through the Body; Around 1981; Pedagogy: The Question of Impersonation; Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment; Anecdotal Theory; Living with His Camera; and
The Daughter's Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis (the latter also from Cornell).
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