After Lacan
Literature, Theory and Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century

This book explores the phases of Jacques Lacan's career and examines the past, present, and future of psychoanalysis.

Ankhi Mukherjee (Edited by)

9781316512180, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 1 November 2018

240 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.45 kg

'We can see from the essays collected here, après coup - as it were - that now, more than ever, we should look not to 'after' Lacan, nor only for a 'return' to Lacan, but instead, we should unearth the 'sense' of Lacan, and Mukherjee's collection is an excellent end to that new beginning.' Sinan Richards, French Studies

This book draws on the distinct phases of Jacques Lacan's career to show his way of thinking in and beyond his lifetime. It is an examination of the past, present, and futures of psychoanalysis, as these are developed in the dimensions of language, literature, logic, philosophy, visual culture, identity and sexuality, and politics. The interdisciplinary approach of the volume allows it to work across clinical, sociological, philosophical, and literary fields to both add dimensions to the literary/critical reception of Lacan and enable the system of Lacanian psychoanalysis to have a wider conversation. Re-examining the fundamental concepts of Lacanian theory in its historical contexts through the topological structures he inaugurated, After Lacan makes innovative critical interventions in contemporary debates on racism, Islam, the Communist Party, poetry, new media, disability identity, and queer theory. It is a key resource for students, graduates and instructors of literary theory, psychoanalysis, and the works of Lacan.

Introduction Ankhi Mukherjee
Part I. Fundamental Concepts: 1. Voice after Lacan Mladen Dolar
2. Freud's return to Lacan Anna Kornbluh
3. Beyond the Oedipus complex Tracy McNulty
4. Psychoanalysis as poetry in Lacan's clinical paradigm Dany Nobus
Part II. After Lacan: 5. The queer repression of Lacan Merrill Cole
6. Cinema after Lacan Todd McGowan
7. Lacan and politics Jodi Dean
8. Lacan and race Azeen Khan
Part III. Beyond Lacan: 9. Lacan and disability studies Anna Mollow
10. Lacan and new media Clint Burnham
11. Islam after Lacan Nouri Gana.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB], Literary theory [DSA], Literature: history & criticism [DS]