Introduction à la lecture de Lacan. 1. L'inconscient structure comme un langage [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 44 (2):414-415 (1990)
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This well-written book introduces the reader step by step and in a pedagogical way to an aspect of Lacan's thought: the claim that the unconscious is structured like a language. A number of commentators have already introduced two crucial concepts of Lacan into the American intellectual community: the imaginary and the symbolic. Thus the now standard introduction and companion volume to Lacan's Ecrits: Lacan and Language, by John P. Muller and William J. Richardson, gives in the introduction a good presentation of these two concepts. A brief look at the table of contents of the book by Dor allows us to see that Dor takes a further step in the presentation of Lacan's ideas. The first part, "Linguistics and the formation of the unconscious", is only an expansion of the introduction of the Muller-Richardson book, while the second part, "The paternal metaphor as structuring pivot for subjectivity", goes beyond it. The ideas developed in the second part can be usefully complemented by the chapter on the paternal metaphor in the book by De Waelhens Schizophrenia and by my essay on the paternal metaphor or the one on "Fatherhood and Subjectivity". In these other pieces we do not find a clarification of a Lacanian distinction between the subject of the enunciation and the subject of the enunciated. We also do not find in these other pieces a clarification of Lacan's famous schema L. Dor clarifies both admirably in this part of the book.

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