Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious Inhabiting the Ground [Hardcover]

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.List of Plates - Abbreviations - Acknowledgements - Chronology - Introduction: For All - PART 1: THE AMERICAN UNCONSCIOUS - PART 2: THE REAL WORK: INHABITING THE GROUND - Notes - IndexTIM DEAN