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Lacan (Hardcover)

by Malcolm Bowie (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 244 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press; New edition edition (7 Jun 1991)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0674508521
  • ISBN-13: 978-0674508521
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,161,116 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This is an astonishing feat of exposition, clear, judicious and economical in argument, and written with an elegance one would not have believed possible on so intractable a subject. Having read Bowie, one can revisit Lacan buoyed up by the conviction that he is a psychoanalytical thinker absolutely worth tangling with, a genuine enlarger of the mind and not a fly-by-night showman. Lacan is here thoroughly elucidated without being made simple, the elucidator having invested his intellectual all in being equally fair to the tortuosities of his subject and the needs of his readers. -- John Sturrock "London Review of Books"

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Malcolm Bowie explores the work of this influential psychoanalyst and twentieth-century thinker.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Good introduction, 29 Nov 2004
This review is from: Lacan (Modern Masters) (Paperback)
This is a good book. Like most of the stuff both by, and on, Lacan, it is not easy reading. Yet Bowie offers clear, succinct and judicious readings of most of the major points of Lacan's work. Bowie is concerned with Lacan's work first and foremost from the viewpoint of a philosophical kind of psychoanalysis. The book is not, then, directly related to either literary criticism, or to recent developments in philosophy (e.g. there is no section on 'post-structuralism').
The study starts with an extended discussion of the relationship between Lacan and Freud. This is important for 2 reasons: 1. because Lacan claimed he was 'returning to Freud', and 2. because Freud obviously a standard reference point for psychoanalytic literature. On this point, Bowie is well balanced, pointing out the value of Lacan's work, but not afraid to make what are at times sharp criticisms.
The chapter headings should give some idea of the rest of the content: "Inventing the 'I'"; "Language and the Unconscious"; "Imaginary, Symbolic, Real..and True"; "The Meaning of the Phallus"; and "Theory Without End".
As you can probably see, the book is oriented principally towards academic psychoanalysis. This is, of course, intrisically interesting, but I might have liked to see something on Lacan's relationship to philosophy and to politics. But then, this is only an introductory volume, so perhaps that would be little too much to expect.
All in all, this is a very intelligent, well-written book on Lacan. If it had been a little more ambitious, and less dry and academic, then it might have gotten 5 stars. But if you want a good 'introduction' to Lacan, and are willing to make the effort at understanding, then you could do a lot worse than to read this.
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