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“From ontological desire to ethical desire:  Lacan’s Hamlet vs. Lacan’s Antigone”

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania.  He is a co-founder and senior curator of Slought Philadelphia and an editor at the Journal of Modern Literature.  Professor Rabaté is the author or editor of 35 books, including “Lacan and the Subject of Literature” (Palgrave, 2001), “James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism” (Cambridge UP, 2001), “1913:  The Cradle of Modernism” (Blackwell, 2007), “Crimes of the Future” (Bloomsbury, 2014), and the forthcoming  “Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns” (Bloomsbury, 2016).   See more at  http://www.jeanmichelrabate.org.