Routledge Library Editions: Lacan

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ROUTLEDGE LIBRARY EDITIONS:
LACAN
Volume 3
LACAN AND THE SUBJECT
OF LANGUAGE
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LACAN AND THE SUBJECT
OF LANGUAGE
Edited by
ELLIE RAGLAND-SULLIVAN
AND MARK BRACHER
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First published in 1991
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L A C A N
A N D T H E
S U B J E C T o ?
L A N G U A G E
EDITED BY ELLIE RAGLAND-SULLIVAN AND MARK BRACHER
ROUTLEDGE
NEW YORK AND LONDON
Published in 1991 by
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Copyright © 1991 by Routledge, Chapman and Hall, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Ragland-Sullivan, Ellie, 1941-
Lacan and the subject of language / Ellie Ragland-Sullivan, Mark
Bracher.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-415-90307-6.—ISBN 0-415-90308-4 (pbk.)
1. Lacan, Jacques, 1901- —Contributions in philology.
2. Philology. 3. Psychoanalysis. I. Lacan, Jacques, 1901—
II. Bracher, Mark, 1950- . III. Title.
P85.L34R35 1990
150.19'5—dc20 90-48416
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction
Ellie Ragland-Sullivan 1
Lacan and the Subject of Language
1. Language: Much Ado About What?
Jacques-Alain Miller 21
2. Homo sapiens or Homo desiderans: The Role of Desire
in Human Evolution
Henry W. Sullivan 36
3. The Sexual Masquerade: A Lacanian Theory
of Sexual Difference
Ellie Ragland-Sullivan 49
Lacan and the Subject of Psychoanalysis
4. The Analytic Experience: Means, Ends, and Results
Jdeques-Alain Miller 83
5. Signifier, Object, and the Transference
Russell Grigg 100
6. Theory and Practice in the Psychoanalytic Treatment
of Psychosis
Willy Apollon 116
Lacan and the Subject of Literature
7. Style is the Man Himself
Judith Miller 143
v
vi / Contents
8. Fictions
Stuart Schneiderman 152
9. Where is Thy Sting?
Some Reflections on the Wolf-Man
Lila Kalinich 167
10. The Truth Arises from Misrecognition
Slavoj Zizek 188
11. Literature as Symptom
Colette Soler 213
Index 221
Acknowledgments
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. Although Joel Fineman did not contribute his essay to this
volume, the editors wish to pay homage to the excellence of his schol­
arship and the complexities of his work, standing as it does at the
interfaces among literature, rhetoric, and psychoanalysis. Richard
Klein, M.D., has chosen to give his essays to those publications not
supported by institutions, a political decision we respect. We also
thank the co-sponsors of the conference, the Center for Literature and
Psychoanalysis at Kent State University and the Newsletter of the
Freudian Field. We also thank David Metzger and Heidimarie Hayes
for their assistance in the final stages of editing this volume. But most
particularly we thank those speakers who came here from Paris to
give us the benefit of the groundbreaking work you will read in this
volume, work that is now changing the face of theory and practice in
the analytic clinic. These theories regarding what knowledge is, what
language is and does, and why gender makes a difference, are only a
few of the effects of Lacan's teaching.
Ellie Ragland Sullivan
Mark Bracher