Lacan in Public: Psychoanalysis and the Science of Rhetoric by Christian Lundberg (review)

Philosophy and Rhetoric 47 (3):334-340 (2014)
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In his first book, Christian Lundberg takes on the formidable challenge of rescuing Lacan for rhetorical studies. As he demonstrates in his first chapter, scholars in other disciplines have mostly neglected Lacan’s profound reliance on the rhetorical idiom, while rhetoricians have deployed his theory for critical purposes without fully appreciating the thoroughgoing transformation of rhetoric it effects. Lundberg’s intervention is the first sustained effort to treat Lacan’s expansive, dense, and often opaque oeuvre as a fully formed theory of rhetoric. In fact, the book persuasively advances the provocative claim that Lacan pushes rhetoric in far more promising directions than the academic disciplines of ..

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