Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 14:56:09 -0500
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Lacan & Language


James Ralph Westfall wrote:
> By far, Borch-Jacobsen is my favorite Lacan exegete.

	I'm glad you called this to my mind -- it seems like so long ago that I read
this.  Perhaps it didn't come to mind right away because, as I recall (I'll have
to take another look) his presentation was fairly heavily embedded in a
Heideggerian/Hegelian-Kojevian analysis, which isn't to say that it's wrong --
indeed it has a natural appeal for me -- but I recall that sometimes it
approaches the complexity of Lacan himself.  My good friend Philippe van Haute,
a Belgian Freudian Lacanian, also thinks M B-J to be the best of the Lacan
exegetes.  Having a personal bias, I like to barb him with Richardson, who is on
the Lacan side of the Freud-Lacan Lacanian split.  Whoa -- stop that chain!

Ciao,
Reg


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