Freud, Proust and Lacan
Theory as Fiction

Malcolm Bowie (Author)

9780521275880, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 January 1988

240 pages
22.4 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm, 0.34 kg

'Professor Bowie's perspicious triangulation of the works of Freud, Proust, and Lacan yields fascinating insights into the thought of each - and provocative, though appropriately qualified, speculations regarding the relations among 'theory', 'fiction', and 'perception' in their respective efforts to map the terrain of human consciousness. This book should be welcomed by critics, theorists, and historians of literature and culture alike.' Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz

The views of Freud, Proust and Lacan are depicted through this staging of a series of provocative dialogues between psychological science and imaginative literature of the twentieth century.

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on texts and translations
Introduction
1. Freud's dreams of knowledge
2. Proust, jealousy, knowledge
3. Freud and Proust
4. Lacan
5. Lacan and literature
Epilogue
Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary theory [DSA]