The Purloined Poe (Paperback)

John P Muller; William J Richardson
Johns Hopkins University Press
 9780801832932
0-8018-3293-4

Jacques Lacan's seminar on "The Purloined Letter" at once challenged literary theorists and revealed a radically new conception of psychoanalysis. His far-reaching claims about language and truth provoked.

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a vigorous critique by Jacques Derrida, whose essay in turn has spawned further responses from Barbara Johnson, Jane Gallop, Irene Harvey, Norman Holland, and others.