Signifying Truth: Augustine, Lacan, and a Theory of Language

In this paper, I will show how a retroactive reading of Augustine by Lacan can help us understand more clearly the process of the subject’s accession to language and inter- human relations on the path toward understanding. I will distinguish the Lacanian reading from the reductive Wittgensteinian re...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zachary Tavlin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2013-12-01
Series:Language and Psychoanalysis
Online Access:http://www.language-and-psychoanalysis.com//article/view/1593