Jeff Lang 5/10/00 Mr. Roberts Lacanian Psychoanalysis and Surfacing The theories of Jacques Lacan give explanation and intention to the narrators actions throughout the novel Surfacing. Although Margaret Atwood may not have had any knowledge of the French psychoanalysts philosophies, I feel that both were making inferences on behavior and psychology and that the two undeniably synchronize with each other. I will first identify the complex philosophies of Jacques Lacan and then demonstrate how the narrator falls outside of Lacans view of society and how this leads to her demand for retreat from that society in order to become whole....