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The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan: Literature, Lituraterre, Litterature
1032748001 pdf The Major Literary Seminars of Jacques Lacan considers the three key phases of Lacans interest in literary topics. Santanu Biswas first examines the seminars given between 1955 and 1961, in which Lacan spoke on Edgar Allan Poes short story "The Purloined Letter", Hamlet, Sophocles Antigone, and Paul Claudels The Cofontaine Trilogy, and where literature is related to meaning. This is followed by an exploration of Lacans seminar on "Lituraterre" in 1971, wherein Lacan elaborates on the different ways in which literature appeared to turn towards lituraterre. Finally, Biswas considers Lacans 19751976 seminar on James Joyce, who created literature out of litter and was concerned with jouissance rather than with meaning. Read more