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Lacanian Non-Rapport in the Novels of John Fowles

Impossible Relationships

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Lacanian Non-Rapport in the Novels of John Fowles offers the first systematic Lacanian study of the fiction of John Fowles. Although Fowles repeatedly acknowledged his engagement with psychoanalysis, his novels have rarely been examined in relation to Jacques Lacan’s theorisation of sexual non-rapport. This book argues that the persistent misrecognitions of love and the recurrent failures of relationships in his fiction are structured by the Lacanian insight that “there is no sexual relationship.” Through detailed readings of Fowles’s six novels, the study demonstrates how Fowles’s characters confront the structural impossibility of sexual rapport and attempt to negotiate it through fantasy, desire, and symptom. It further suggests that Fowles’s fiction can be read as unwittingly Lacanian in its dramatization of sexual non-rapport. The book also shows how the enigmatic and inconclusive narrative forms often associated with Fowles’s postmodernism are underwritten by this psychoanalytic logic. By bringing Lacanian theory into dialogue with Fowles’s novels, the study offers a new interpretation of one of the most distinctive voices of twentieth-century British fiction.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-31
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt453 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Antal sidor128
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032227825

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Mahitosh Mandal is Assistant Professor of English at Presidency University, Kolkata, India. He received his BA (Hons), MA, MPhil, and PhD from the Department of English, Jadavpur University. His research interests include psychoanalysis, Dalit studies, and Holocaust studies. He is the author of Jacques Lacan: From Clinic to Culture (Orient BlackSwan, 2018) and co-editor of Holocaust vs Popular Culture: Interrogating Incompatiblityand Universalization (Routledge, 2024). His most recent co-edited volume is Dalit Studies: Key Terms and Concepts (Routledge, 2026). His work has appeared in leading academic journals, including APPI: InternationalJournal for Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, and Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Fowles but Were Afraid to Ask LacanChapter 1 Lacan on Sexual Non-Rapport: Key PropositionsChapter 2 “I will still have my woman-me he can never touch”: Perversion and Sexual Non-rapport in The CollectorChapter 3 “And you wouldn’t marry me because I’m a whore and a colonial”: Anxiety and Sexual Non-rapport in The MagusChapter 4 “Eyes a man could drown in”: Phallic Myth and Femininity in The French Lieutenant’s WomanChapter 5 “He has a Mistress. Her name is Loss”: “Abortive Romances” and the Question of Traversing the Fantasy of Sexual Rapport in Daniel MartinChapter 6 “if this wasn’t an unwritable non-text”: Phallic Failure, Invasion of Jouissance and Uninscribability of Sexual Rapport in MantissaChapter 7 “So great it may hardly be said in words”: Phallic Impotency and Other Jouissance in A Maggot Conclusion