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Jacques Lacan
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Standard Name: Lacan, Jacques
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Education | Luce Irigaray | LI
earned another doctorate, this time in Philosophy and Arts, on 1 October 1974, when she graduated from the recently-established University of Paris VIII
at Vincennes. Her third thesis, Speculum de l'autre femme... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Michèle Roberts | Later, back in England, a sexually fulfilling but intellectually enraging affair with another colleague (a sociologist whose reading of Lacan
had convinced him that women have no real self or desire) helped MR
to become... |
Friends, Associates | Hélène Cixous | HC
was a close personal friend of Jacques Derrida
— who, like her, was a French citizen and a Jew born in Algeria. |
Health | Michèle Roberts | In her late twenties, under the strains of alienation from her family, her affair with a misogynist Lacan
ian, her struggle to express her social and political anger, she started seeing a therapist. She found... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Simone de Beauvoir | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Christine Brooke-Rose | This was her last novel published by Raleigh Trevelyan
of Michael Joseph
—who was, she believed, fired with a golden handshake for accepting it. Brooke-Rose, Christine. Invisible Author: Last Essays. Ohio State University Press, 2002. 128 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Luce Irigaray | This book is made up of discrete pieces published in various books and journals between 1973 and 1976. They include critique of intellectual fathers like Freud
and Lacan
, analysis of the relationship between language... |
Literary responses | Christine Brooke-Rose | Thru was her own favourite among her novels, but she said it was also the one that even [her] fans get most wrong, not because of the typographical difficulty but because they ignore the explanations... |
Literary responses | Rosalind Coward | Four years after its publication, a reviewer for Contemporary Sociology called this book the best available introduction in the English language to the semiotic structuralism of Saussure
, Lévi-Strauss
, and Lacan
; the structural... |
politics | Luce Irigaray | While teaching at the University of Paris VIII
at Vincenness, LI
was affiliated with the École Freudienne
of Paris, a Lacan
ian body of psychoanalytic professionals. At the same time, she was actively involved... |
Author summary | Hélène Cixous | HC
, a French writer and academic, is best known to English-speaking audiences as a literary critic associated with French feminism of the 1970s and 80s, and as proponent of écriture féminine. She herself... |
Reception | Julia Kristeva | According to Eric Homberger
in the Times Literary Supplement, the Sociology of Literature Conference held at the University of Essex
was dominated by the names of Lacan
, Derrida
, and Kristeva
. Homberger, Eric. “The Class of Lacan”. Times Literary Supplement, 28 July 1978, p. 854. 854 |
Textual Features | Julia Kristeva | This is very largely a book about psychoanalytical issues: its first section, The Clinic, consists largely of case histories, whose interpretation is Lacan
ian. Here JK
defends the full-scale practice of psychoanalysis as opposed... |
Textual Features | Luce Irigaray | Its controversial element was the way it merged gender politics with established psychoanalytic theory. It probes the problematic relation between women as speaking subjects and language as a patriarchal institution. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. |
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