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Emma Rees rightly pleads for a summer holiday away from ¡°Lacan, Kristeva and Foucault too¡­¡± (¡°Crumbs of comfort ?on the beach¡±, 24 August). Don¡¯t we all need a break as well from Saussure, the father of them all? Although, of course, in Malcolm Bradbury¡¯s view, we might not be saussure.

R. E. Rawles
Honorary research fellow in psychology
University College London

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