One of the foundational premises of Jacques Lacan's
psychoanalytical project was that the history of philosophy
concealed the history of desire, and one of the goals of his work
was to show how desire is central to philosophical thinking. In
Lacan's Medievalism, Erin Felicia Labbie demonstrates how Lacan's
theory of desire is bound to his reading of medieval texts. She not
only alters the relationship between psychoanalysis and medieval
studies, but also illuminates the ways that premodern and
postmodern epochs and ideologies share a concern with the subject,
the unconscious, and language, thus challenging notions of strict
epistemological cuts. Lacan's psychoanalytic work contributes to
the medieval debate about universals by revealing how the
unconscious relates to the category of the real. By analyzing the
systematic adherence to dialectics and the idealization of the hard
sciences, Lacan's Medievalism asserts that we must take into
account the play of language and desire within the unconscious and
literature in order to understand the way that we know things in
the world and the manner in which order is determined. Erin Felicia
Labbie is assistant professor of English at Bowling Green State
University.
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