Language and the flesh : psychoanalysis and the limits of discourse

Hook, Derek (2003) Language and the flesh : psychoanalysis and the limits of discourse Pretexts : Literary and Cultural Studies, 12 (1). pp. 43-64. ISSN 1015-549X

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Presents a survey of the contested place of the real in some psychoanalytic theory. Emphasis on the ways in which the core of psychoanalytic thinking resists just the over-inflation of constructive theory criticized by Christopher Norris in particular relation to the philosophy of logic and mathematics; Account of Sigmund Freud's essay on the uncanny to Julia Kristeva's account of the abject