The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious--Jacques Lacan

The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious

Summary of the essay—Lecture notes by S. Sreekumar

                       PART II

“The Insistence of the letter in the Unconscious” was originally delivered as a lecture at the Sorbonne in 1957.

David Lodge writes about the apparent difficulty of understanding Lacan thus:

“Lacan was a notoriously, wilfully difficult writer, and the present editor (Lodge himself) certainly does not claim fully to understand everything in this essay. The algebraic formulae for metaphor and metonymy, for instance, seem designed to mystify and intimidate rather than to shed light.”

Summary of the essay

The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious--Jacques Lacan

The Insistence of the Letter in the Unconscious

Summary of the essay in two parts

Part I 

A General Assessment of Lacan 

[ It is hoped that this introduction will provide an overview of the main ideas propounded by Lacan]

Study materials for research scholars of Indian Universities.

Dr. S. Sreekumar

JACQUES LACAN (1901 – 81)

Introduction

Lacan is the most important psychoanalyst since Freud. Lacan’s works have changed the discipline both as a theory of the mind and as clinical practice so much so that over 50 % of the world’s analysts now employ Lacanian methods.