New Directions in American Studies: Inhabiting the Ground

Dean, T.

This book presents a new theory of American culture based not on the phenomenologically- and existentially-derived vocabularies of consciousness, which have dominated earlier accounts, but rather on a revitalized notion of the unconscious. Drawing on the writings of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, Dean develops a theory of the constitution of the very notion of America itself as based on a complicated relation to the American landscape.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1991-01-31

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333492949

DOI: 10.1057/9780230376649

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 240