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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The Johns Hopkins University, USA

Tim Dean

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TIM DEAN

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Book Title: Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious
Book Subtitle: Inhabiting the Ground
Authors: Tim Dean
Series Title: New Directions in American Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376649
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1991
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-49294-9Published: 31 January 1991
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37664-9Published: 31 January 1991
Series ISSN: 2946-9422
Series E-ISSN: 2946-9430
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 240
Topics: North American Literature, Cultural Studies

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Table of contents (3 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: For All

The American Unconscious

The Real Work: Inhabiting the Ground

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