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10.2vanpelt.txt Having employed a Lacanian discourse to frame his discussion of the colonialist novel, however, JanMohamed writes that some "symbolic" novels are "conceived in the 'symbolic' realm of intersubjectivity, heterogeneity, and particularity but are seduced by the specularity of 'imaginary' Otherness" (19-20). Since Lacanian analysis supports neither the discourse of categorical identity nor the rhetoric of blame that so frequently accompanies it, it might appear that Lacan has little to offer political analysis, especially where issues of identity are foremost. I can only note with some amusement that I found penciled in my margin of this concluding section "time for a lesbian deconstruction." On this account, Judith Butler has read my desire. jefferson.village.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.100/10.2vanpelt.txt

WILLA Volume 6 - Death, Domesticity, and the Feminine Gaze: Bishop's "First Death in Nova Scotia" In a Lacanian sense, Bishop's language merely poses as an erotic of desire in which there is no difference between image and image maker, representing the illusion of perfect reciprocity between object and subject, the illusion that since no-thing stands between them, then nothing stands between them (Lacan, 73-5). Rather than reaching an interiority, and subsequently finding the presence of being she seems to be seeking, Bishop involves herself with externals, only participating in mimesis in order to denounce it. Martha Marinara writes poetry and fiction and is an Assistant Professor at Armstrong State College, Savannah where she directs the Writing Center and teaches composition, rhetoric, and poststructuralism. scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/old-WILLA/fall97/Marinara.html

review-2.994 Certainly, Lacan would have taught us that this is just how desire works (98ff), but what happens when we subject the Lacanian analysis of sexual difference to a kind of symptomatic Lacanian reading? If there is a notion of Lacanian failure or "lack" running through Butler's work, it is, perhaps, "failure" as that which enables and calls for another reading, another response, another movement. And would the mutation of that law call into question not only the compulsory heterosexuality attributed to the symbolic, but also the stability and discreteness of the distinction between symbolic and imaginary registers within the Lacanian scheme? www3.iath.virginia.edu /pmc/text-only/issue.994/review-2.994

Jouvert 5.2: Alexandra Schultheis, "Family Matters in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother As the central image in narratives of the Freudian and Lacanian subject and of the modern nation, the family brings discourses of psychoanalysis and postcolonial studies together. Rai, Amit S. "'Thus Spake the Subaltern...': Postcolonial Criticism and the Scene of Desire." The Psychoanalysis of Race. In understanding Xuela through psychoanalysis, we need to be able to invoke psychoanalysis in a sense against itself, to examine the subversive potential of the very subjects the methodology itself produces. social.chass.ncsu.edu /Jouvert/v5i2/kincai.htm

Desire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Desire, a concept in Lacanian psychoanalytic theory related to the Oedipus complex Desire (DC Comics), one of the Endless in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comic series Desire (TV show), a telenovela on the United States broadcast television network My Network TV en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Desire   (174 words)

Lines of Desire, Hanjo Berressem In Lines of Desire, Hanjo Berressem examines the novels of Polish author Witold Gombrowicz in light of both contemporary literary theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He outlines Gombrowicz's views on philosophy, structuralism, subjectivity, language, and psychoanalysis; demonstrates their close correspondence to Lacanian theory; and establishes the theoretical foundation that will inform subsequent textual analyses. Berressem addresses in particular Gombrowicz's use of the motifs of the face, his deconstruction of Kantian dialectics, the topic of sexual obsession, and the "tragedy" of consciousness. nupress.northwestern.edu /title.cfm?ISBN=0-8101-1309-0   (174 words)

Other Voices 1.3 (January 1999), Judith Feher Guervich, " The Jouissance of the Other and The Prohibition of Incest: A Lacanian Perspective The child's exposure to the mother's jouissance is a necessary part of oedipal dynamics It is extremely important to realize that jouissance belongs to a different register from that of desire. The jouissance of the Other, therefore, refers to the subject's experience of being for the Other an object of enjoyment, of use or abuse, in contrast to being the object of the Other's desire. If she is not the exclusive object of her mother's desire she may risk becoming the object of the m(Other)'s jouissance. www.othervoices.org /1.3/jfg/other.html   (2866 words)

LACAN.LEC This is the element of the tragic built into psychoanalytic theory (whether Freudian or Lacanian): to become a civilized "adult" always entails the profound loss of an original unity, a non-differentiation, a merging with others (particularly the mother). By definition, desire can never be fulfilled: it's not desire for some object (which would be need) or desire for love or another person's recognition of oneself (which would be demand), but desire to be the center of the system, the center of the Symbolic, the center of language itself. Lacan's theory starts with the idea of the Real; this is the union with the mother's body, which is a state of nature, and must be broken up in order to build culture. www.colorado.edu /English/ENGL2012Klages/lacan.html   (4918 words)

CPROBES: Drive under suspicion In Lacanian terms, the late Derrida was in thrall to desire, whereas the early Derrida, the Derrida of differance, was a theorist of drive. In the case of desire, the object remains the ultimate point of reference, the source to which always-raised, always-dashed messianic hopes are consecrated. Desire fixates upon an object that is impossible, whereas drive circulates around a lost object. www.cprobes.com /archives/2005/05/drive_under_sus.html   (482 words)

andy coan .com - Subjectivity in Adorno and Lacan This dialectisation, which is anchored by what Lacan calls a 'master signifier,' results in a 'splitting' of the $ubject, represented in Lacanian terms by the matheme '$,' the 'split subject.' The bar signifies the barrier constructed between the conscious and the unconscious, the alienation of the individual from his or her own desire. In simplest terms, this socialisation means that the desire of the individual (the Real constitution of the self) must be made to conform to the symbolic order of society-desire becomes dialectised into the signifiers of language. In his essay on the 'mirror phase,' Lacan explains how the $ubject is constituted "in a primordial form,...before language restores to it...its function as a subject (94)." In the mirror phase, the self identifies itself as such "in a fictional direction" as the infans perceives its own body as a Gestalt, a unified whole. andycoan.com /essay.php?essayId=5   (482 words)

SLU: African American Review - Announcements - Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, she shows that authors such as Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright sought means of transcending what Tate calls the “racial protocol” of protest against white oppression in order to consider issues of personal desire that normally lay outside the purview of black writers and their critics. Her third authored book, Psychoanalysis and Black Novels: Desire and the Protocols of Race (1998), examines five novels from the 1940s and 1950s with no n-black protagonists. This novel tells the story of Annie Ruth Watson, the daughter of Big Sid - the biggest, blackest farmer in Tobacco County, GA. The year is 1960 and her senior year of high school lies ahead. aar.slu.edu /announce.html   (482 words)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.05.14 Chapter 9 examines Cornelia's elegiac self-defense in the underworld, Propertius 4.11, from the perspective of Lacan's concepts of the Law, feminine jouissance, "quilting" and objet a Again, Janan refers to ancient texts other than Propertius' poems to exemplify both the relevance of the Lacanian concepts and their uncanny anticipation in authors of antiquity. And yet, as Janan argues, Cynthia's unpredictable caprice constitutes a feminine irony akin to Arethusa's mode of knowing the world, a skepticism that serves to strip away the public façade of ritual (Lanuvium) that masks the motives of private desire. Micaela Janan, The Politics of Desire: Propertius IV. ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2001/2001-05-14.html   (2738 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Books: Erotic Transference and Counter Transference Representing a broad spectrum of psychoanalytic perspectives, including object relations, Kleinian, Jungian and Lacanian thought, the contributors highlight similarities and differences in their approaches to the erotic in transference and counter transference, ranging from love and sexual desire to perverse and psychotic manifestations. The contributors highlight similarities and differences in their approaches to the erotic in transference and counter transference, ranging from love and sexual desire to perverse and psychotic manifestations. Offering a range of contemporary views on one of therapy's oldest challenges, "Erotic Transference and Countertransference" presents stimulating material and perspectives that seek to address the concerns of many a therapist about just how connected to patients/clients one can be and how to manage patients/clients affectionate feelings for their therapist. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0415184533   (2738 words)

95-14jan.html He assumes Lesbia's desire to be limitless, while using the language of politics (with signifiers such as foedus and amicitia) to interpret and escape from his defeat (as in poems 76 and 109). Finally, she analyses poem 11 in terms of its portrayal of the rapacious 'masculine' desire for conquest, both in the imperialist greed of Caesar and in the sexual greed of the adulterous Lesbia, both of whom are deluded by the Imaginary equation penis-phallus. Here metaphor returns as Lacanian capitonnage, as the divided subject, the 'agent-of- knowing', Catullus, makes vain repeated attempts to pin down the 'truth' of Lesbia's statements (she who is the 'object-of-knowing') in order that he may thereby construct his own identity. www.und.ac.za /und/classics/95-14jan.html   (2418 words)

SLU: African American Review - Announcements - Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, she shows that authors such as Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright sought means of transcending what Tate calls the “racial protocol” of protest against white oppression in order to consider issues of personal desire that normally lay outside the purview of black writers and their critics. THE EDGE OF EACH OTHER’S BATTLES: THE VISION OF AUDRE LORDE by Jennifer Abod is a moving tribute to the renowned black lesbian feminist who inspired a generation of activists with her riveting poetry and whose vision served as a catalyst for both unity and social change. She belonged to the faculty of Howard University for twelve years before joining George Washington University in 1989, and then the Princeton faculty in January 1997. aar.slu.edu /announce.html   (2418 words)

SLU: African American Review - Announcements - Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, she shows that authors such as Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright sought means of transcending what Tate calls the “racial protocol” of protest against white oppression in order to consider issues of personal desire that normally lay outside the purview of black writers and their critics. The central position that Richard Wright’s Native Son holds in the American literary canon is somehow overshadowed by the tensions the novel has managed to sustain since its publication in 1940. THE EDGE OF EACH OTHER’S BATTLES: THE VISION OF AUDRE LORDE by Jennifer Abod is a moving tribute to the renowned black lesbian feminist who inspired a generation of activists with her riveting poetry and whose vision served as a catalyst for both unity and social change. aar.slu.edu /announce.html   (2418 words)

SLU: African American Review - Announcements - Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, she shows that authors such as Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright sought means of transcending what Tate calls the “racial protocol” of protest against white oppression in order to consider issues of personal desire that normally lay outside the purview of black writers and their critics. In order to be eligible, applicants must be an individual of color, have at least 10 years’ experience as a community activist, be committed to continuing work for social change, and be a resident of the United States or its territories. Bannerman Fellows have the freedom to use their sabbaticals in whatever way they think will best re-energize them for the work ahead, and no product (other than a brief report) is required upon completion of the sabbatical. aar.slu.edu /announce.html   (2418 words)

A Queer Chivalry: The Homoerotic Asceticism of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Julia F. Saville Her book displaces hagiographic interpretations of the poet's life, arguing that Hopkins's poetics of homoerotic asceticism shaped his work in such a way that his career should be viewed not as a steady linear progression but as an ongoing process of negotiating his desire. Julia F. Saville uses Lacanian theories of sublimation and courtly love to reconfigure this long-standing rift in the field of Hopkins criticism. A Queer Chivalry highlights the strange blending of sensual delight and strict self-denial in Hopkins's courtly verse, initiating a new trend in criticism that celebrates the poet's queer status as the Victorian troubadour-priest. www.upress.virginia.edu /books/saville.html   (315 words)

Freda Freiberg But most of the jokes are lost on those unfamiliar with the intellectually fashionable writings of the 70's, such as the debate around the Lacanian theory of the mirror phase, around subjectivity and aro~lnd feminine v. The three films you are going to see tonight are all historically significant projects in the ongoing search for a cinematic language capable of expressing female desire. The following was the introductory speech given by Freda Freiberg at the screening of: www.experimenta.org /mesh/mesh01/1freib.html   (766 words)

SSRN-Can Lawyers Be Cured?: Nietzsche's Theory of Eternal Recurrence and the Lacanian Death Drive by Jeanne Schroeder She suggests, among other things, that eternal recurrence looks forward to Lacan's concept of drive: the abandonment of desire, understood as the pursuit of a teleological goal, in favor of circular, iterative activity. Schroeder, Jeanne L., "Can Lawyers Be Cured?: Nietzsche's Theory of Eternal Recurrence and the Lacanian Death Drive". First, one simplistic version of the theory of eternal recurrence is an example of the masculine sexuated position - an attempt to deny the split or negativity that constitutes subjectivity that Nietzsche recognizes elsewhere in his work. papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=413627   (766 words)

Psychoanalytic Theory in English Studies For the first half of the course, we will explore the fundamental concepts and principles of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, including desire, drive, jouissance, the mirror stage, the four discourses, and the registers of the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic. The remainder of the course will be devoted to exploring the ways in which these concepts can be usefully related to the various disciplines within English Studies. In addition, we will examine how psychoanalysis provides a productive framework (beyond historicism and rhetoricalism) with which to understand and theorize cultural concerns such as race, the body, and queer subjectivities. lilt.ilstu.edu /kscoat2/psychoanalytic_theory_in_english_studies.htm   (151 words)

Other Voices 1.3 (January 1999), Vadim Linetski, "The Promise of Expression to the 'Inexpressible Child': Deleuze, Derrida and the Impossibility of Adult's Literature" Therefore it is not surprising that the proper deconstruction of the patriarchal discourse of the symbolic desire will start with subverting its semiotic effigy[19]. The Oedipal, to wit, Lacanian way to do this is to conceive of narcissism "as the amorous captivation of the subject by the image" (Laplanche and Pontalis 256) and thereby to give primacy to impression with the result sketched above. But by the same token the system thus advanced comes to be grounded in impression, rather than in expression, for the Otherness which comes first mutilates the subject, impresses upon it a trace. www.othervoices.org /1.3/vlinetski/child.html   (151 words)

SLU: African American Review - Announcements - Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, she shows that authors such as Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright sought means of transcending what Tate calls the “racial protocol” of protest against white oppression in order to consider issues of personal desire that normally lay outside the purview of black writers and their critics. The controversies raised by the novel mirror the multiple concerns of contemporary literary criticism and theory, as well as the changing social sensibilities. The conference will be a landmark event in assessing the formative influence of this artist, scholar, and cultural worker, and is intended as a critical intervention into the project of black cultural studies. aar.slu.edu /announce.html   (151 words)

Psychoanalytic Theory in English Studies For the first half of the course, we will explore the fundamental concepts and principles of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, including desire, drive, jouissance, the mirror stage, the four discourses, and the registers of the Real, the Imaginary, and the Symbolic. The remainder of the course will be devoted to exploring the ways in which these concepts can be usefully related to the various disciplines within English Studies. This course will offer an introduction to contemporary psychoanalytic theory and its uses for academic inquiry. lilt.ilstu.edu /kscoat2/psychoanalytic_theory_in_english_studies.htm   (151 words)

SLU: African American Review - Announcements - Using Lacanian psychoanalysis, she shows that authors such as Zora Neale Hurston and Richard Wright sought means of transcending what Tate calls the “racial protocol” of protest against white oppression in order to consider issues of personal desire that normally lay outside the purview of black writers and their critics. THE EDGE OF EACH OTHER’S BATTLES: THE VISION OF AUDRE LORDE by Jennifer Abod is a moving tribute to the renowned black lesbian feminist who inspired a generation of activists with her riveting poetry and whose vision served as a catalyst for both unity and social change. John Marsden “Tim” Reilly, a Howard University professor, award-winning literary critic who was an authority on African American literature, especially the works of novelist Richard Wright, and longtime advisory editor to African American Review, died of a brain hemorrhage February 9, 2004 at a hospital in Cooperstown, NY. aar.slu.edu /announce.html   (151 words)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.05.14 In addition, these two poems reveal the workings of a feminine epistemology (Arethusa's ironic view of the masculine pretense to objective knowledge and mastery of the world) and of feminine desire as diffuse, marked by fluidity (Tarpeia's passion for Tatius and the prevalence of water imagery). While Janan's argument does cohere (in its long form), it might have benefited from a more explicit distinction between effects of the poem that derive from a "principled textual strategy" (115), implying Propertius' intention, and those that, though not necessarily intended, are elucidated by a Lacanian view of the subject and his relation to language. Her contradictions thus constitute a symptom of the "logical impasse at the heart of the sexual relation" (119), an impossibility that affects the poem's structure and displaces sexuality so that it permeates everywhere but truly succeeds nowhere. ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2001/2001-05-14.html   (2738 words)

Slavoj_zizek Lacanian pyschoanalysis applied to politics : Zizek's claim to fame is his rapacious wit, keen insights, and his profound, hilarious and shocking use of anecdotes. Here, Zizek focuses on the relation between fantasy and desire, and the latter he sees as rooted fully in the former... Slavoj Zizek is a Researcher in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. books.mysic.com /Author/Slavoj_Zizek   (1212 words)

art_barzilai01-3.shtml The mirror stage would not have the singular importance that it undoubtedly possesses for Lacanian theory, and for postmodern discourses on the subject, without some additional level or levels of signification. In the one instance, to speak of the "moment" seems to imply a chronological succession--stade as evolutionary stage, a movement from the imaginary, dyadically enclosed situation in which the ego is held in thrall by its double to the symbolic, socially interactive state of desired desires. In "The Mirror Stage" and related essays, Lacan's description of the specular encounter also draws on a Hegelian-KojËvian conception: "It is this moment that decisively tips the whole of human knowledge into mediatization through the desire of the other" (Šcrits, 98 / 5). www.clas.ufl.edu /ipsa/journal/articles/art_barzilai01-3.shtml   (1212 words)

The cult of Lacan: Freud, Lacan and the mirror-stage An extraordinarily complex argument is then introduced by means of which the whole mirror ordeal becomes the basis of an Oedipal drama; the outcome of this drama in Lacanian theory is that the child ‘enters language’ in the quest for a phallus or alternatively is ‘inserted’ into language. A sorcerer without magic, a guru without hypnosis, a prophet without god, he fascinated his audience in an admirable language effecting, in the margins of desire, the revival of a century of enlightenment. Indeed, at one stage he virtually abandoned the complex and almost completely opaque rhetoric of his lectures in order to concentrate on discovering the formulae or ‘mathemes’ which he believed psychoanalytic truths could be reduced to. www.richardwebster.net /thecultoflacan.html   (1212 words)

Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.07.14 Janan's reader is post-Cartesian and, despite her polite nods to Plato and Freud, Lacanian; not, that is, a unitary subject perceiving and responding to an objectified text, but instead a set of shifting discursive states unified only by their obscure, fundamental desire to become a knowing subject. The Catullus that this reader creates and by which she is created moves fluently between genders as easily as he shifts epistemological stances. Our text of Catullus is what it is, and our uncertainty over the placing of, for example, the three lines commonly called poem 2b is as much part of our reading of the text as our uncertainty over the possible allegorizing of the passer. ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/1995/95.07.14.html   (1212 words)

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