Lacan on Love: An Interview with Bruce Fink
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Lacon's Approach to Reading Literary Texts
The idea of a conscious intentionality is cast aside in favor of what's driving the author. Even when he reads Claudel later in seminar eight, and I profess that I have very little grasp of Claudel's work, Lacon is fascinated with tragedy. So it's a use, some people would say, an abuse of literature to try to look on attempts to use literature as a springboard for his own thought. And partly that has to do with maybe mentality, so I'm getting off the topic. But literature is obviously very important to him; again, not in a sense like fully laying out what a story is about or what the author's even secret intention was.
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