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![handle is hein.journals/intjsemi11 and id is 1 raw text is: InternationalJournalfor the Semiotics of Law Vol.XI no.31 [1998]
REASON AND DESIRE IN LEGAL EDUCATION:
A PSYCHOANALYTIC-SEMIOTIC CRITIQUE
by
BRUCEA. ARRIGO
Institute of Psychology, Law and Public Policy
Introduction
Critical commentary on the nature of law and legal education is
rather commonplace. Significant contributions developed during the
Legal Realist era1 and its successor the Critical Legal Studies (CLS)
movement2 exposed the layered dimensions of subjectivity, hierarchy
and politics, governing both legal practice and legal discourse. Most
* Direct all correspondence to Dr. Bruce A. Arrigo, Professor and Director,
Institute of Psychology, Law, and Public Policy, CSPP-Fresno, 5130 E.
Clinton Way, Fresno, California, 93727. E-mail correspondence:
barrigo@mail.cspp.edu
1 See, e.g., O.W. Holmes, The Path of the Law, Harvard Law Review 10
(1897), 457-478; R. Pound, Mechanical Jurisprudence, Columbia Law
Review 8 (1908), 605-623; J. Frank, Law and the Modern Mind (New York:
Doubleday, 1930/1963); K. Llewellyn, Some Realism About Realism,
Harvard Law Review 44 (1931), 1222-1264; K. Llewellyn and A. Hoebel,
A Realistic Jurisprudence - The Next Step, Columbia Law Review 30
(1930), 431-465; W. Rumble, American Legal Realism (Ithaca, New York:
Cornell University Press, 1968).
2 See, e.g., A. Altman, Critical Legal Studies: A Liberal Critique (Princeton,
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990), 7-21; D. Kairys, ed., The
Politics of Law (New York: Pantheon, 1982); Critical Legal Studies
Symposium, Stanford Law Review 36 1/2 (1984), 1-674; G. Peller, The
Metaphysics of American Law, California Law Review 73/4 (1985), 1151-
1290; M. Tushnet, Critical Legal Studies: An Introduction to Its Origins
and Its Underpinnings, Journal ofLegal Education 36 (1986), 131-163; R.
Unger, The Critical Legal Studies Movement (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1986); P. Goodrich, The Role of Linguistics in Legal
Analysis, Modern Law Review 47 (1984), 523-534; A. Hunt, The Theory
of Critical Legal Studies, Oxford Journal ofLegal Studies 6 (1986), 1-45; A.
Hunt, The Role and Place of Theory in Legal Education: Reflections on
Foundationalism, Oxford journal ofLegal Studies 8 (1988), 146-164.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/intjsemi11&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)