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Coleridge's Table Talk.(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20030322
Author:Bishop, Paul

In the recorded conversations of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), published in 1836 as his Table Talk, the following remark is dated to 23 July 1827: "The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man." (1) This aphoristic formula offers an apparent insight that is, I shall argue, identical to the one that was later systematized as part of the structuralist model of the psyche developed by the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan (1901-81). This correspondence suggests that the kinds of ideas that can be derived from it have ...

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