内容简介：
Van Pelt (English, Idaho State U.) uses Jacques Lacan's theoretical constructs to analyze texts such as Plato's Symposium, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and The Journals of Sylvia Plath. He rereads Lacan's essays on aggressivity, the mirror stage, the subversion of the subject, and the signification of the phallus, asserting Lacan's role in the intellectual transitions of the second half of the 20th century.