How James Joyce Made His Name:: A Reading of the Final Lacan (Contemporary Theory)

In this lucid and compelling analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, Le Sinthome, Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics. Lacan's seminar measures the boundaries between creativity and neurosis. We learn how poetry and wordplay may offer alternatives to neurotic pain and even psychotic delusions, with Joyce as our subject. This new translation makes the intricacies of Lacan's seminar available to the English-speaking world for the first time. The author's accessible, vigorous prose explains the nuances of Lacanian theory with perfect clarity. In the extraordinary encounter between Lacan and Joyce, Harari reveals unexpected affinities between them both as theorists and writers. It illustrates how literature is the aesthetic domain that is closest to the analytic experience. "In this analysis of Lacan's twenty-third seminar, "The Synthome," Roberto Harari points to new psychoanalytic pathways that lead beyond Freudian oedipal dynamics." "Lacan's seminar measures the boundaries between creativity and neurosis. We learn how poetry and wordplay may offer alternatives to neurotic pain and even psychotic delusions, with Joyce as our subject.". "This new translation makes the intricacies of Lacan's seminar available to the English-speaking world for the first time. The author's accessible, vigorous prose explains the nuances of Lacanian theory with perfect clarity."--BOOK JACKET. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 9 Prologue......Page 11 Joyce and Lacan......Page 15 Eve in the Labyrinth of Daedalus......Page 51 Epiphanies, Sigma Trefoil......Page 85 Jouissances, Responsibility, Riddles......Page 119 Between the Pere-sonnores and the Folded Glove......Page 151 Jeems Jokes, Telepathy, and the Verbal Parasite......Page 185 The Sinthome, Disinvested from the Unconscious......Page 217 Prelude to the Wake of a Faun......Page 257 Foreclosures, False Holes, Suppletions......Page 297 A Table of Joycean Nomination......Page 335 Index......Page 375

argentine Psychoanalyst Harari Analyzes Lacan's Twenty-third Seminar, The Synthome, Which Measures The Boundaries Between Creativity And Neurosis. In It, Lacan Uses The Writing Of James Joyce As An Example Of How Poetry And Wordplay May Offer Alternatives To Neurotic Pain And Even Psychotic Delusions. The Text Was Originally Published In 1995 In Spanish As Como Se Llama James Joyce? Translated By Luke Thurston. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, Or