Alices Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.
Alices Adventures in Lacan-Land is an accessible exploration of Lacanian psychoanalysis through the prism of Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass.
Bringing concepts of reality, truth, and knowledge under scrutiny, and assuming no prior knowledge of the original Alice books on the readers part, Ali Yansori looks at the treacherous nature of language. He addresses questions about identity formation, touching on concepts including the Imaginary, alienation, and the ego. Finally, the author considers the implications of Lacanian psychoanalysis for both the individual and society and critiques contemporary approaches to therapy, higher education, and other spheres of life.
Alices Adventures in Lacan-Land will be an essential book for anyone encountering Lacan for the first time. It will also be of interest to more experienced readers seeking to engage with lesser-explored yet vital aspects of Lacanian theory.
Preface Introduction
Exposition
Exposition: Alice's Adventures in Lacan-Land
First Development: Language
1. Psychoanalysis's Uncharted Territory
2. Language, Langugage, Everywhere: The Demarcation Problem
3. Existential Implications
Second Development: The Self
4. The Self: Language's Most Important Product
5. The Mirror Stage
Recapitulation: Implications for the Individual and Society
6. Beyond Speech
7. Art as Salvation: A Quick Dive into Contemporary Issues References
Ali Yansori is a philosopher and musicologist and is an assistant professor in aesthetics at Palackż University Olomouc. His interests include mysticism (most notably Persian Sufism), existentialism, late Romanticism, and ethics as an art of living.
