Lacan, Discourse, Event: New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Textual Indeterminacy is an introduction to the emerging field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis. It includes key papers that lay the foundations for this research, alongside worked examples from analysts engaging with a variety of texts. The editors Ian Parker and David Pavón-Cuéllar provide an overview of the development of discourse analysis across different disciplines and outline the conceptual and methodological principles of Lacan's work as they apply to this field.
Key Features
- Foundational papers on Lacanian Discourse Analysis.
- Worked examples illustrating the application of the approach.
- Contributions from leading researchers in the social sciences.
- Insights into the transformation of Lacanian psychoanalysis for text interpretation.
Additional Information
Ian Parker and David Pavón-Cuéllar have divided the book into three main sections. The first section comprises previously published papers, some not yet available in English, which set out the foundations for 'Lacanian Discourse Analysis'. The chapters establish the first lines of research, illustrating how Lacanian psychoanalysis is transformed into a distinctive approach to interpreting text when taken out of the clinical domain. The second and third parts of the book feature commissioned papers from researchers in the English-speaking world and from continental Europe and Latin America, demonstrating how Lacanian Discourse Analysis works in practice.
This definitive volume brings together writings from leaders in the field of Lacanian Discourse Analysis, appealing to psychoanalysts of various traditions, as well as post-graduate and undergraduate students.
