Lacan and Levi-Strauss or The Return to Freud (1951-1957)

Lacan and Levi-Strauss are often mentioned together in reviews of French structuralist thought, but what really links their distinct projects? In this important study, the author shows how Lacan''s famous ''return to Freud'' was only made possible through Lacan''s reading of Levi-Strauss. Via a careful and illuminating comparison of the work of the psychoanalyst and that of the anthropologist, Zaf...