Lacan's Medievalism
- Author / Editor
- Labbie, Erin Felicia.
Lacan's Medievalism
- Published
- Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.
- Physical Description
- xiii, 264 pp.
- Description
- Jacques Lacan's "methodologies follow those established by the medieval scholastic scholars who sought to determine the potential for the human subject to know and represent real universal categories"; and his seminars engage medieval discourses on universals, realism, and nominalism. Labbie assesses Boethius, troubadour verse, Marie de France's "Bisclavret," Jean d'Arras's "Melusine," "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," and Chaucer's ClT and Astr.
- Reads Griselda as "singular, sovereign and universal," while Walter is a "dependent, dialogically engaged, figure"--two aspects of desire. Astr (along with Chaucer's many scientific allusions) presents a "complex struggle with the potential for science to solve or create human problems"; the focus is on the incompleteness of the treatise and on its stated goal: "to slay envy."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Clerk and His Tale
- Treatise on the Astrolabe