The Purloined Poe

Lacan, Derrida and Psychoanalytic Reading
Erscheinungsjahr 1988
ISBN: 978-0-8018-3293-2
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed as interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Purloined Letter" that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radically new conception of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far-reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn has spawned further responses from Barbara Johnson, Jane Gallop, Irene Harvey, Norman Holland, and others. The Purloined Poe brings Poe's story together with these readings to provide, in the words of the editors, "a structured exercuse in the elaboration of textual interpretation.

The Purloined Poe reprints the full text of Poe's story, followed by Lacan's "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter,'" along with extensive commentary by the editors. Marie Bonaparte's and Shoshana Felman's discussions of traditional and contemporary approaches to "psychoanalysing" texts precede Alan Bass's new translation of Derrida's "Purveyor of Truth." The subsequent essays join the Lacan-Derrida debate and offer alternative readings by literary theorists, philosophers, psychologists, and psychoanalysts. The Purloined Poe convenes much of the most important current scholarship on "The Purloined Letter" and presents a rich sampling of poststructuralist discourse.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Muller, John P.

Richardson, William J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I. Poe and Lacan
Chapter 1. Text of "The Purloined Letter," with Notes
Chapter 2. Seminar of "The Purloined Letter"
Chapter 3. Lacan's Seminar of "The Purloined Letter" Overview
Chapter 4. Lacan's Seminar of "The Purloined Letter": Map of the Text
Chapter 5. Lacan's Seminar of "The Purloined Letter": Notes to the Text
Part II. On Psychoanalytic Reading
Chapter 6. Selections from The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Psycho-analytic Interpretation
Chapter 7. On Reading Poetry: Reflections on the Limits and Possibilities of Psychoanalytic Approaches
Part III. Derrida and Responses
Chapter 8. The Challenge of Deconstructions
Chapter 9. The Purveyor of Truth, translated by Alan Bass
Chapter 10. The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida
Chapter 11. Structures of exemplarity in Poe, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida
Chapter 12. The American other
Part IV. Other Readings
Chapter 13. Narratorial Authority and "The Purloined Letter"
Chapter 14. Re-covering "The Purloined Latter": Reading as a Personal Transaction
Chapter 15. The Shadow's Shadow: The Motif of the Double in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter"
Chapter 16. A Notes on Time in "The Purloined Letter"
Chapter 17. Negation in "The Purloined Letter": Hegel, Poe, and Lacan
References
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richardson, William J.
William J. Richardson is professor of philosophy at Boston College. He is the coauthor of Lacan and Language: A Reader's Guide to Ecrits.

Muller, John P.
John Muller is Director of Education at the Austen Riggs Center. He is coeditor of The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading (also available from Johns Hopkins University Press) and the author of Beyond the Psychoanalytic Dyad: Developmental Semiotics in Freud, Peirce, and Lacan.

John P. Muller is a clinical psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. William J. Richardson is professor of philosophy at Boston College. They are coauthors of Lacan and Language: A Reader's Guide to Ecrits.