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Lacan in America (Lacanian Clinical Field)
Lacan in America - Lacanian Clinical Field Author:Jean-Michel Rabate This compilation of essays brings together scholars from the Americas and France to demonstrate the vitality of Lacanian thought and its impact across disciplines. With papers on subjects ranging from mathematics and psychoanalysis to gay and lesbian studies, and featuring Patricia Gherovici, Paul Roazen, Joan Copjec, among others, Lacan in Amer... more »ica vividly demonstrates the tension and debate that have characterized Lacans reception in America.This collection of lucid and nonpartisan essays is particularly welcome . . . it successfully takes the ideas and issues at the heart of Lacans work and legacy and reinspects them through the lens offered by their transportation across the Atlantic, illustrating what has happened to them in their translationand mistranslationinto and through American intellectual and cultural life.Daniel Gunn, Department of Comparative Literature and English, The American University of Paris« less