Rhetorical Failures, Psychoanalytic Heroes: A Psychorhetoric of Social Change

摘要: This dissertation confronts the rhetorical discipline with Real of an antagonism illuminated through its encounter Lacanian psychoanalysis. Rather than eliding desire subjects in favor traditional discursive solutions, pschorhetorical response I will propose locates and subject moments where communication fails seeks to make public realization desire. Through psychoanalytic analysis three acts agency that comprise failure, argue analyses social change are actually not persuasive enough their acceptance reality is entirely mediated. The cases show failure tantamount heroism. Utilizing what call psychorhetoric, rhetoric‟s investment can be much enhanced by opening concept a nonsymbolizable ethics Real. INDEX WORDS: Psychoanalysis, Rhetoric, Lacan, Desire, Symbolic, Real, Imaginary, Persuasion, Social change, Poststructuralism RHETORICAL FAILURES, PSYCHOANALYTIC HEROES: A PSYCHORHETORIC OF