Primal Scenes: Literature, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis - Hardcover

Lukacher, Ned

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801418860 ISBN 13: 9780801418860

Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr, 1986

Synopsis

Analyzes the theories of Martin Heidegger and Sigmund Freud and examines literature from psychoanalytical and philosophical viewpoints

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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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About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0801418860
• ISBN 13: 9780801418860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 342