By Jean-Michel Rabate
Jean-Michel Rabat? bargains a scientific family tree of Lacan's idea of literature, reconstructing an unique doctrine dependent upon Freudian insights and revitalized via shut readings of authors as assorted as Poe, Gide, Shakespeare, Plato, Claudel, Sophocles, Sade, Genet, Duras, and Joyce. now not easily an essay approximately Lacan's impacts or type, this publication indicates how the emergence of phrases just like the "letter" and the "symptom" do not need been attainable with no cutting edge readings of literary texts. Lacan's critique of "applied psychoanalysis" involves a brand new perform of psychoanalysis understood as one of those textual analyzing of the subconscious.
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Lacan explains that the four corners of his square correspond to four levels of agency, the top line indicating a visible axis of determination, while the bottom line (with a recursive arrow in some variations) is the hidden locus of 'truth' or production. ' {plus-de-jouir). Why are there four discourses only, out of the possible 24 provided by the combinatory? The four discourses produce each other, each generating the next discourse by the simple rotation of a quarter circle. There is therefore both a genealogy and a circularity to observe.
Such is the exploit of this calligraphy... 10 Here the tone of the meditation sounds almost Heideggerian in its wish to conjoin the sky and the earth in a theory of the letter as consti tutive of the human subject and sexuality as a whole: the text concludes with an enigmatic reference to an 'it is written' that would underpin sexual rapport. 11 Much of the essay is an condensed account of Lacan's recent trip to Japan and appears as a sort of anti-Empire of Signs, that is, a critique of Barthes' admiration of Japanese calligraphy and writing.
Lituraterre' is a rather difficult text that was written for a special issue of a relatively new quarterly auspiciously called Littérature. Lacan's piece has pride of place: it opens the issue, entided 'Literature and Psychoanalysis' and is printed in more widely spaced type than the essays that follow. His first lines gloss the startling word he uses as his tide, 'Lituraterre', a word that does not exist in French and transposes the syllables of 'literature': This word can be warranted by Ernout and Meillet's etymological dictionary: lino, litura, liturarius.