Lacan Reading Joyce

Taylor & Francis

Lacan Reading JoyceAuthor(s): Colette Soler\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138327245, 978-1138327245\nSynopsis\nThis book discusses Jacques Lacans contribution to understanding the life and work of James Joyce, introducing Colette Solers influential reading to English readers for the first time. Focusing on Lacans famous Seminar on Joyce, the reader will no doubt learn much from Lacan, but also, as Soler shows, what Lacan learned from Joyce and what perhaps, without him, he would not have approached with so much confidence. \n\nLe Sinthome. This is the title Jacques Lacan chose for his seminar devoted to Joyce in [tel]. He wrote the word 'sinthome' in its original spelling, from the Greek, and thus used the technique so dear to Joyce: the equivocation between the sound that is heard and the graphic representation that is seen. Is it surprising that the author who recognised in 1956 with 'The Agency of the Lette.