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The Death Of The Subject-Impossible: An Analysis Of The Subject In Deconstruction And Psychoanalysis, Melinda Mejia May 2005

The Death Of The Subject-Impossible: An Analysis Of The Subject In Deconstruction And Psychoanalysis, Melinda Mejia

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Referring mainly to works of Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan, but also drawing from other major theorists of deconstruction and psychoanalysis, this study focuses on the role of language in the formation of the subject. It also addresses prevailing arguments which call into question the political dynamism of poststructuralist theories of the subject.