Reading Alice Munro with Jacques Lacan

It is unlikely that Jacques Lacan and Alice Munro were ever aware of each other''s work. Yet, because of Munro''s intuitive grasp of the complexities of human subjectivity and her ability to articulate subtleties and ambiguities, her fiction shares many of the insights of Lacan''s theoretical advancements of the same period. They are both concerned with bringing the obscure undercurrents of the ps...