Remembering Andrew Gordon

Authors

  • Erik Nakjavani University of Pittsburgh Author

Keywords:

Andrew M. Gordon, tribute, psychoanalytic criticism, Jacques Lacan, Paul Ricoeur, friendship

Abstract

Erik Nakjavani remembers Andrew M. Gordon, whom he met at the International Conferences on Literature and Psychology, recalling a long friendship and intellectual dialogue on psychoanalysis, Lacan, and Ricoeur’s “hermeneutics of suspicion.” An editor’s note summarizes Gordon’s career and publications.

Author Biography

  • Erik Nakjavani, University of Pittsburgh

    Erik Nakjavani is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at the University of Pittsburgh. His life-long interests have been in literary theory, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. He specializes in Hemingway studies, and is a founding member of the Hemingway Society. His latest essay, “Conceptualizing Lived Experience: Mailer as an Intellectual,” appeared in The Mailer Review (2015).

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Published

2017-10-26

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Tributes

How to Cite

Nakjavani, Erik. “Remembering Andrew Gordon”. The Mailer Review, vol. 11, no. 1, Oct. 2017, pp. 251–253, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/626.