This
book is about interpretation as it pertains to literature,
philosophy, and psychoanalysis. It argues against certain trends of
thought that claim we should do without interpretation by
demonstrating that interpretation, as described by psychoanalysis, is
already a fundamental aspect of all human experience. Egginton
examines the idea of interpretation developed by Freud; how that
notion was in turn changed by Lacan; the debate around psychoanalytic
interpretation staged by philosophers like Deleuze and Derrida; and
finally how a psychoanalytic notion of interpretation is necessary
for even the most basic experience of consciousness.
