The essays in this volume were presented as keynote addresses at a conference on “Lacan, Language and Literature” held at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio on Memorial Day weekend in May of 1988. The two addresses not included in this volume were “The History of the Anecdote: Fiction and Fiction” delivered by the late Joel Fineman and “R.S.I. in Freud’s Project” delivered by Richard Klein of Oxford, England.

Published

ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS: LACAN, Volume 3, LACAN AND THE SUBJECT
OF LANGUAGE, 1991
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Contents

Acknowledgments                                                      pvii

Introduction                                                                 p1

Ellie Ragland-Sullivan

Lacan and the Subject of Language

  1. Language: Much Ado About What?

Jacques-Alain Miller                                                   p21

  1. Homo sapiens or Homo desiderans: The Role of Desire in Human Evolution

Henry W. Sullivan                                                       p36

From A.I.: Henry W. Sullivan (1942–2023) was a scholar of Spanish literature and professor at the University of Missouri, known for applying psychoanalytic theory to cultural studies. He is best known for his 1995 book, The Beatles With Lacan: Rock ‘n’ Roll as Requiem for the Modern Age, which uses Lacanian psychoanalysis to analyse the band’s career, personality, and impact as a postmodern phenomenon.

  1. The Sexual Masquerade: A Lacanian Theory of Sexual Difference

Ellie Ragland-Sullivan                                                p49

Lacan and the Subject of Psychoanalysis

  1. The Analytic Experience: Means, Ends, and Results

Jacques-Alain Miller                                                   p83

  1. Signifier, Object, and the Transference

Russell Grigg                                                              p100

  1. Theory and Practice in the Psychoanalytic Treatment of Psychosis

Willy Apollon                                                              p116

Lacan and the Subject of Literature

  1. Style is the Man Himself

Judith Miller                                                                p143

  1. Fictions

Stuart Schneiderman                                                  p152

  1. Where is Thy Sting? Some Reflections on the Wolf-Man

Lila Kalinich                                                               p167

Lila J Kalinich, MD, Psychiatry, University of Columbia, states, February 2026, I have been in practice for more than 40 years. I do mainly psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. While I find psychopharmacology a useful to treatment in some cases, I have found that no one really got better without an opportunity to tell his life’s story, in his many versions, to a careful and patient listener.

  1. The Truth Arises from Misrecognition

Slavoj Zizek                                                                 p188

  1. Literature as Symptom

Colette Soler                                                               p213

Index                                                                           p221