Burke's Lacanian Upgrade: Reading the Burkeian Unconscious Through a Lacanian Lens

Abstract

Kenneth Burke was no stranger to psychoanalysis. In fact, Freud had a major influence on his theory of dramatism. For example, in Rhetoric and Religion , he credited Freud for “great contributions” and called him a “genius” (Burke, 1970, p. 265) In Language as Symbolic Action , he noted that Freud had “done well” (Burke, 1966, p. 66). And in his most lengthy praise of Freud, he wrote:

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KB Journal: The Journal of the Kenneth Burke Society
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2009-09
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