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==About this book==
This book sets out to determine the validity of an accusation made against Jacques [[Lacan]] by Noam [[Chomsky]] in an interview in 1989. He stated that Lacan was a “charlatan” – not that his [[ideas]] were flawed or wrong, but that his entire [[discourse]] was fraudulent, an accusation that has since been repeated by many [[other]] critics. Examining the arguments of key anti-[[Lacanian]] critics, Mathews weighs and contextualizes the legitimacy of Lacan’s engagements with [[structural]] [[linguistics]], [[mathematical]] [[formalization]], [[science]], [[ethics]], [[Hegelian]] dialectics, and [[psychoanalysis]]. The guiding thread is Lacan’s own recurrent interrogation of [[authority]], which inhabits an ambiguous zone between [[mastery]] and charlatanry. This book offers a novel contribution to the field for students and scholars of psychoanalysis, [[philosophy]], [[sociology]], critical and [[literary]] [[theory]].

==Table of Contents==

==About the Authors==
Peter D. Mathews is Professor of [[English]] [[Literature]] at Hanyang [[University]], South Korea.


==Reviews==

{{Quotation|"What authorizes an analyst to analyze? Lacan the Charlatan makes a significant contribution to this important question and is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of our praxis."|Russell Grigg|World Association of Psychoanalysis|}}

{{Quotation|"Lacan the Charlatan is much more than a highly engaging study of Lacan's various critics, detractors, and would-be debunkers. It focuses in on one of the essential problems of his psychoanalytic theory: the nature of authority under conditions of modernity. Clown, guru, master, imposter, insurgent, analyst: Mathews shows how Lacan both incarnated and exposed the impasses of authority, and how his theoretical framework is crucial for understanding the charade of power and mastery we are living in today."|Aaron Schuster||author of ''The Trouble with Pleasure: Deleuze and Psychoanalysis''}}

{{Quotation|"Mathews is that rarest of scholars in psychoanalytic studies: someone brave enough to consult works he disagrees with, and then able to produce smart, judicious, and fair-minded commentary and critique. Likewise, his interventions into the work and legacies of the best critics of Lacan, such as Roustang and Borch-Jacobsen, is not just overdue; it is often revelatory. Lacan the Charlatan is a major contribution to the literature - one of interest to scholars of literature, philosophy, and sociology - that will still be worth reading in twenty years."|Todd Dufresne||Professor of Philosophy, Lakehead University, Canada}}

- Russell Grigg, [[World]] [[Association]] of Psychoanalysis

"Lacan the Charlatan is much more than a highly engaging study of Lacan's various critics, detractors, and would-be debunkers. It focuses in on one of the essential problems of his [[psychoanalytic]] theory: the [[nature]] of authority under [[conditions]] of [[modernity]]. Clown, guru, [[master]], [[imposter]], insurgent, [[analyst]]: Mathews shows how Lacan both incarnated and exposed the impasses of authority, and how his [[theoretical]] framework is crucial for [[understanding]] the charade of [[power]] and mastery we are [[living]] in today."

- Aaron Schuster, [[author]] of The Trouble with [[Pleasure]]: [[Deleuze]] and Psychoanalysis

"Mathews is that rarest of scholars in psychoanalytic studies: someone brave enough to consult works he disagrees with, and then able to produce smart, judicious, and fair-minded commentary and critique. Likewise, his interventions into the [[work]] and legacies of the best critics of Lacan, such as Roustang and Borch-Jacobsen, is not just overdue; it is often revelatory. Lacan the Charlatan is a major contribution to the literature - one of interest to scholars of literature, philosophy, and sociology - that will still be worth [[reading]] in twenty years."

- [[Todd Dufresne]], Professor of Philosophy, Lakehead University, Canada
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