Gary Snyder and the American Unconscious: Inhabiting the Ground

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.

• | Author: T. Dean
• | Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• | Publication Date: Jan 31, 1991
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0333492943
• | ISBN-13: 9780333492949