3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British psychoanalyst and prolific essayist who writes about psychoanalysis, desire, literature, and the good life in a style that blends clinical insight with literary essay — whose books include On Kissing Tickling and Being Bored, Missing Out, and On Balance.
French psychoanalyst who 'returned to Freud' by reinterpreting psychoanalysis through structural linguistics — arguing that the unconscious is structured like a language, that desire is the desire of the Other, and that the subject is constituted by its entry into language (the symbolic order).
Shakespeare's 1601 comedy following Viola, who disguises herself as Cesario after a shipwreck, is sent to woo Olivia for Duke Orsino, with whom Viola falls in love, while Olivia falls in love with Cesario/Viola — exploring desire, disguise, identity, and the arbitrary nature of love.