On the Road to Lost Fathers: Jack Kerouac in a Lacanian Perspective

The book examines the correspondences between the oeuvre of Jack Kerouac and the thought of Jacques Lacan. It sets off analyzing the reasons for Kerouac’s aversion towards psychoanalysis, proceeds with discussing textual spontaneity, and concludes with a scrupulous analysis of the father figure(s) in Kerouac’s cycle of the Duluoz Legend.