Lacan To The Letter
Reading Ecrits Closely
An analysis of Lacan’s thought by way of a close, authoritative reading of his Écrits
208 Pages, 6 x 9 in
- Paperback
- 9780816643219
- Published: April 14, 2004
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Lacan To The Letter
Reading Ecrits Closely
ISBN: 9780816643219
Publication date: April 14th, 2004
208 Pages
9 x 5
An analysis of Lacan’s thought by way of a close, authoritative reading of his Écrits
To read Lacan closely is to follow him to the letter, to take him literally, making the wager that he comes right out and says what he means in many cases, though much of his argument must be reconstructed through a line-by-line examination. And this is precisely what Bruce Fink does in this ambitious book, a fine analysis of Lacan’s work on language and psychoanalytic treatment conducted on the basis of a very close reading of texts in his Écrits: A Selection.
From a parsing of Lacan’s claim that “commenting on a text is like doing an analysis,” to sustained readings of “The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious,” “The Direction of the Treatment,” and “Subversion of the Subject” (with particular attention given to the Graph of Desire), Fink’s book is a work of unmatched subtlety, depth, and detail, providing a valuable new perspective on one of the twentieth century’s most important thinkers.
Bruce Fink is a practicing Lacanian psychoanalyst, analytic supervisor, and professor of psychology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is the author of A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis (1997) and The Lacanian Subject (1995). He has coedited three volumes on Lacan’s seminars and is the translator of Lacan’s Seminar XX, On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge (1998); Écrits: A Selection (2002); and Écrits: The Complete Text (forthcoming).