Primal Scenes: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis - Softcover

Lukacher, Ned

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801494869 ISBN 13: 9780801494864

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1988

Synopsis

Primal Scenes is concerned with those elements in the thought of Freud and Heidegger which make us continue to regard them as our contemporaries. It seeks to reassert their radical potential, which, the author believes, has been minimized as as critics celebrate the radicality of Lacan, Derrida, and others.

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From Library Journal

With considerable knowledge and ingenuity, Lukacher adapts Freud's notion of the primal scene to describe both "the interpretive impasse that arises when a reader has good reason to believe that the meaning of one text is historically dependent on the meaning of another or on a previously unnoticed set of criteria, even though there is no conclusive . . . means of establishing the case . . ." and the interpretive constructions he develops to overcome that impasse. In addition to Freud, Lukacher bases these constuctions on Heidegger, Derrida, and Lacanhis discussions full of the dense jargon fashionable today when dealing with those authors. His interpretations bring together authors such as Hegel, Marx, and Shakespeare in provocative ways but, despite the heavy philosophical and psychoanalytical artillery, not in particularly convincing or central ones. Richard Kuczkowski, Director, Continuing Education, Dominican Coll., Blauvelt, N.Y.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801494869
• ISBN 13: 9780801494864
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368