Lacan and the Destiny of Literature Desire, Jouissance and the Sinthome in Shakespeare, Donne, Joyce and Ashbery

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An original study aiming to explain fully Lacanian thought and apply it to the study of literary texts.

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Desire, the Lacanian Cogito	p. 9
Desire and sexual difference	p. 25
Beyond desire : love, mystic Jouissance and the Sinthome	p. 41
Lacan, literary theory and criticism	p. 57
Shakespeare's theatre of desire	p. 77
John Donne's hymns to love, desire and Jouissance	p. 117
Joyce's Wakean Sinthome	p. 139
The function of the specular image and the Littoral in John Ashbery's poetry	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 178
Bibliography	p. 183
Index	p. 199
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