The Purloined Poe

by Muller, John P.; Richardson, William J.

• ISBN13: 9780801832932
• ISBN10: 0801832934
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-03-01
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

Jacques Lacan's seminar on "The Purloined Letter" at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radically new conception of psychoanalysis. His 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.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Poe and Lacan	p. 1
Text of "The Purloined Letter," with Notes	p. 3
Seminar on "The Purloined Letter," translated by Jeffrey Mehlman	p. 28
Lacan's Seminar on "The Purloined Letter": Overview	p. 55
Lacan's Seminar on "The Purloined Letter": Map of the Text	p. 77
Lacan's Seminar on "The Purloined Letter": Notes to the Text	p. 83
On Psychoanalytic Reading	p. 99
Selections from The Life and Works of Edgar Allan Poe: A Psycho-analytic Interpretation	p. 101
On Reading Poetry: Reflections on the Limits and Possibilities of Psychoanalytic Approaches	p. 133
Derrida and Responses	p. 157
The Challenge of Deconstruction	p. 159
The Purveyor of Truth, translated by Alan Bass	p. 173
The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida	p. 213
Structures of Exemplarity in Poe, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida	p. 252
The American other	p. 268
Other Readings	p. 283
Narratorial Authority and "The Purloined Letter"	p. 285
Re-covering "The Purloined Letter": Reading as a Personal Transaction	p. 307
The Shadow's Shadow: The Motif of the Double in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter"	p. 323
A Note on Time in "The Purloined Letter"	p. 335
Negation in "The Purloined Letter": Hegel, Poe, and Lacan	p. 343
References	p. 369
Contributors	p. 383
Index	p. 385
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