"Despite an affinity with early 20th-century modernism, Lacan's name is still more routinely associated with the category of so-called "postmodernism," thus rendering the question of style and periodization somewhat out of focus. Understanding Lacan, Understanding Modernism asks and responds to a series of question: Is Lacan a modernist or a postmodernist, and what is the difference? How significant was the influence of modernist literature and art on the development of Lacan's ideas? Can one approach Lacan's own texts as modernist works or documents? And how do received definitions of what modernism is/was change when viewed through a Lacanian lens?"-- Provided by publisher.
Explores the impact of modernist literature and art on the writing and thought of Jacques Lacan, emphasizing the valences of Lacanian psychoanalysis for interpretations of modernism.
