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If you will allow me … to make use of a private joke, I would say that I present here to our fragmented body of members the instrument of a mirror in which, heaven willing, it may anticipate its unity.
Jacques Lacan
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READING AFTER FREUD. . New York: Columbia University Press, 1987, 225 pp.
JACQUES LACAN AND THE ADVENTURE OF INSIGHT. . Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987, 169 pp.
THE LIVES AND LEGENDS OF JACQUES LACAN. . New York: Columbia University Press, 1983, 225 pp.
LACAN IN CONTEXTS. . New York: Verso, 1988, 322 pp.
THE PURLOINED POE. and (eds.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988, 394 pp.
Having in certain circles undergone a sea change, or renaissance jrangaise, psychoanalysis is once again enjoying cultural prominence. But since relatively few know it through a classical analysis (or survive to write about it), and even fewer submit to analytic training, almost everyone's acquaintance derives from Freud's texts. How he is read will largely determine how he and the movement he founded are perceived.
Granting the likelihood that anyone's reading is as individual