Reading Alice Munro with Jacques Lacan 9780773599840

How Lacanian psychoanalysis illuminates the enigmas of human subjectivity at the heart of Alice Munro’s fiction.

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Table of contents :
Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction The Black Room and the Opaque Place of Jouissance
I Early Encounters with the Other
“Royal Beatings” Fantasy, Desire, and Pickled Arseholes
“Princess Ida” Sublimation, Repression, and the Return of the Repressed
“Boys and Girls” The Assumption of Sexed Subjectivity
II Feverish Feminine Transport: Desire, Jouissance, and Love
“Eskimo” Fantasy and Beyond
“Too Much Happiness” Feminine Jouissance
“Tell Me Yes or No” The Love Letter
III Epilogue
The Truth of the Fixion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

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