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Romance
This chapter synthesizes the varied debates and paradoxes, literary and philosophical, identified with the enduring and capacious genre of romance from classical antiquity to the present day, such as the statu...
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Narrativity in Variation: Merleau-Ponty and Murdoch on Literary and Philosophical Narratives
It may seem natural to assume that philosophical and literary narratives are two distinct forms of discourse. Many philosophers therefore take on the task of theorizing about how literature may have philosophi...
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Fictions of Human Development: Renaissance Cognitive Philosophy and the Romance
Fictions of human development are stories that both explore and portray the evolution of the human mind in relation to its physical, social and historical context. They emerge at a time when the understanding ...
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‘No One Is the Author of His Life’: Philosophy, Biography, and Autobiography
This chapter explores the kind of truth an (auto)biography can offer concerning the subject’s life. Any truth such a text offers will necessarily be problematic: it can never be more than a reconstruction from...
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Phenomenology
In order to examine the relation between phenomenology and literature, this chapter reflects on the role of fiction for phenomenological method. With Husserl, we will see how world emerges as the central conce...
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Rhetoric
This chapter offers a brief scholarly overview of the ancient art of rhetoric and outlines rhetoric’s philosophical and practical relationship to literary criticism. Beginning with the issues raised by the cla...
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Myth
This chapter provides a discussion of myth as poetic literary style, based on the distinction between mythos and logos introduced through an analysis of understandings of the terms in archaic Greece. The archaic ...
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Deconstruction: Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics
Undertaking a reexamination of some of Derrida’s writings on mourning, this chapter explores the ways in which an ‘ethics-of-the-other’ position broadly associated with deconstructive or poststructuralist anal...
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Psychoanalysis
In this chapter I argue that Freud struggled to reconcile his commitment to mind-body nondualism with a scientific culture shaped by the dualism implied by Western rationalism. Psychoanalysis, therefore, acts ...
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Law and the Literary Imagination: The Continuing Relevance of Literature to Modern Legal Scholarship
Although the sheer technicality of the law’s concepts and categories often inhibits any discussion of their own premises, literature is able to illuminate the world by means of imagistic language, elucidating ...
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Thought Experiments at the Edge of Conceptual Breakdown
In this chapter, I first provide an historical introduction on what a thought experiment is by citing various popular examples from science and philosophy. I then propose that we should identify a simple thoug...
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Poetry’s Truth of Dialogue
The afterword envisions the relationship between philosophy and literature as a dialogical one. Rather than being merely a confrontation of two different disciplines or an application of philosophical aestheti...
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Introduction: Approaching the Real
This book concerns the concept of the ‘Real’ in the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. Lacan proposed an ambitious, at times highly abstract, and always philosophically suggestive, reading of Freu...
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The Real and the Symbolic
Having explained how Lacan lays out the formation of the Real, conceived in its relationship to the Imaginary as an immanently produced, and irrecuperable, antagonism proper to identification, I will now outli...
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The Real and Psychopathology
Up to now, I have largely been concerned with articulating the complex, theoretical relationship between Lacan’s concept of the Real and the wider concerns of his metapsychology. In approaching these questions...
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Conclusion: Philosophical Psychoanalysis?
To conclude, I’d like to provide some thoughts on the meta-theoretical status of my argument. What, finally, is the ‘Real’, both in terms of its position within Lacan’s wider metapsychology and his theory of t...
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The Imaginary and the Real
In this chapter I will draw out in Lacan ‘s account of the Imaginary register, and in particular in his various engagements with the constitutivity of the image of the ‘other’, the beginnings of what he would ...
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Space and the Real
Up to now, I have been concerned with the ways in which Lacan, from the 1940s to the beginning of the 1960s, laid the ground for a psychoanalysis predicated on the Real. By showing the place of the Real in the...
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Lacanian Materialism?
In this chapter I aim to consolidate a number of the themes already broached in preceding chapters, particularly as they relate to Lacan’s writings on materiality and materialism, and as they point towards a t...
