Lacan And Postmodern Cultural Criticism

Based on the domestic and foreign studies of Lacan, and from the viewpoint of comparative poetics and cross-discipline theory, this thesis discusses the foundation and the characteristic of Lacan's Theory, as well as its influence on the Postmodernism, especially on Cultural Criticism, so that it can provide some theory references to the domestic study of Lacan and Postmodern Cultural Criticism. The whole thesis consists of three parts. The first part (Chapter I ) begins with Lacan's academic development and then focuses on the main sources of Lacan's Theory: Hegel's Philosophical Thoughts, Freudian Psychoanalysis, Saussure's Linguistics and Levi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology. The second part (Chapter II ,III,IV) mainly analyses some key words from the complex system of Lacan's Theory, including the mirror stage, the ego, the other, the unconscious, the imaginary, the symbolic, the real, the subject and the desire, and concludes that these related key words have expressed the essence of Lacanian Psychoanalysis psychologically, linguistically and culturally and have great effect on postmodern critical discourse. The third part (Chapter V) discusses Lacan's influence on Postmodern Cultural Criticism from the following aspects: the influence on his contemporary scholars, such as Althusser, Deleuze ; the textual interpretation in his Seminar on "The Purloined Letter" and the series of reverberations caused by it; the relationship between Lacan's Theory and Feminist Criticism, etc.