Lacan’s Ghost
Wendy Doniger: The mirror, 3 January 2002
The Mirror: A History
by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet, translated by Katharine Jewett.
Routledge, 308 pp., £16.99, January 2001,0 415 92447 2 Show More
by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet, translated by Katharine Jewett.
Routledge, 308 pp., £16.99, January 2001,
“... reflected behind. On this model there is infinite variety, not sameness, in the views of the self. Katharine Jewett’s translation is clear and graceful; the poetry rendered into rhyme works well, the occasional French jargon makes sense in English, and even the slang (‘ugly mug’, ‘500 écus up the ass’) is cleverly done. But the failure to ... ”