Genet, Lacan and the Ontology of Incompletion

Bringing Jean Genet and Jacques Lacan into dialogue, James Penney examines the overlooked similarities between Genet''s literary oeuvre and Lacanian psychoanalysis, uncovering in particular their shared ontology of fragility and incompletion.

This book exposes the two thinkers'' joint and unwavering ontological conviction that the representations that make up the world of appearances are inherent...