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Ralph Sandland. "The Mirror and the Veil: Reading The Imaginary Domain", Feminist Legal Studies VI/1 (1998), 33-58: This article analyses critically Drucilla Cornell's attempted integration of Rawls' distinction between practical and theoretical reason with Lacanian psychoanalysis into a feminist theory of law and legal rights. It is argued that Lacan cannot supplement Rawlsian liberalism other than dangerously, in that Lacan demonstrates that the "practical" in the Rawlsian sense is dependent on the "theoretical" for its coherence, and that as a result Cornell's attempted synthesis must ultimately be counted unsuccessful.

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