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The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading by John P. Muller (Austen Riggs Center, Inc.)

In 1956 Jacques Lacan proposed an interpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's Purloined Letter that at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radical new concept of psychoanalysis. Lacan's far reaching claims about language and truth provoked a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn spawned further responses from other writers. The Purloined Poe brings Poe's story together with these readings to provide a structured exercise in the elaboration of text interpretation.

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In the story of the interpretations, reinterpretations, displacements, and replacements that have accreted around Poe's 'The Purloined Letter,' this collection, The Purloined Poe, comes like an answer to a... riddle. -- Hana Charney Psychoanalytic Books A valuable, critical text. Year's Work in English Studies A fascinating volume for both the fledgling and the besotted amateurs of contemporary criticism. Library Journal

About John P. Muller (Austen Riggs Center, Inc.)

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.

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

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NLS9780801832932

ISBN 13

9780801832932

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0801832934

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The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading by John P. Muller (Austen Riggs Center, Inc.)

Author

John P. Muller (Austen Riggs Center, Inc.)

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Paperback

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Johns Hopkins University Press

Year published

1987-11-26

Number of pages

408

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The Purloined Poe John P. Muller (Austen Riggs Center, Inc.)

The Purloined Poe by John P. Muller (Austen Riggs Center, Inc.)

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The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading by John P. Muller (Austen Riggs Center, Inc.)

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About John P. Muller (Austen Riggs Center, Inc.)

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