MACMILLAN Joyce through Lacan and Žižek: Explorations (New Directions in Irish and Irish American Literature)

Brivic argues that James Joyce's fiction anticipated Jacques Lacan's idea that the perceivable world is made of language and that Joyce, Lacan, and Žižek all carry forward a psychological and linguistic groundwork for social reform. Review "[A] hugely enjoyable book...The expanding universe of Zizekian interpretation opens up to the judicious critic who, armed with Brivic's great knowledge of all things Joycean, can re-launch the sinthome, now freed from its cryptic vault and able to address many aspects of Joycean experience." - The James Joyce Quarterly Book Description   About the Author SHELLY BRIVIC is Professor of English, Temple University, USA.