The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance

A Lacanian Perspective

Shirley Zisser

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English

Routledge
16 November 2023

Psycholinguistics; Literary theory; Literary studies: general; Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology); Psychotherapy

Series: Routledge Focus on Mental Health

The Linguistic Turn of the English Renaissance: A Lacanian Perspective examines a selection of cultural phenomena of the English Renaissance, all of which include a focus on language, from a Lacanian perspective.

The book examines four inter-related cultural symptoms of the English Renaissance: the paucity of painting, the interest in rhetoric, the emergence of a literary style focusing on form and a fascination with the myth of Orpheus. The book argues that the English Renaissance, an apex of rhetorical theory, can offer psychoanalysis further knowledge concerning the intrication of language and flesh, especially where feminine jouissance is at stake. These language-centred phenomena emerge against the backdrop of a peculiar configuration of the visual field, which in contrast to other cultures of the European Renaissance is largely barren of painting other than portraiture.

The book will be of interest to psychoanalysts, scholars of Renaissance culture and those interested in the psychoanalytic study of culture.

By: Shirley Zisser
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9781032490625
ISBN 10: 1032490624
Series: Routledge Focus on Mental Health
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 16 November 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1 Rhetoric 2 Euphues 3 Orpheus

Shirley Zisser practices Lacanian psychoanalysis in Tel Aviv, Israel, and is a Full Professor and former Chair of English at Tel Aviv University. Her publications include Critical Essays on Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint: Suffering Ecstasy, Art, Death and Lacanian Psychoanalysis (with Efrat Biberman), and Writing, Speech and Flesh in Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Of Unconscious Grammatology (both Routledge).