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The Literary Text: Meaning and Intention
It deals with the basic question relating to the role of intention in understanding the meaning of a literary text. The term “intention” in the context of the literary text is problematic as it has been unders...
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Literature and Life
The chapter deals with the relation between literature and life. A literary work is to be viewed in its totality and for the quality of experience it evokes. Literature borrows elements from life, but it creat...
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The Literary Narrative and Moral Values
The chapter deals with narrative identity as it is created both in life and in literary work. It is very much the case that our personal identities in life are created by means of narrative wherein one puts to...
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Providing the Context
The chapter begins with a brief overview of the contemporary trends in analytic approach to deal with philosophical questions concerning art, in general, and literature, in particular. Such concern with the an...
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Emotions in Art
The chapter mainly deals with the questions about the ontological status of emotions that we experience for a character or incident, say, a novel, movie, etc. Is the experience we have of, say, anger, pity, sympa...
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Metaphor and Meaning
The chapter deals with the nature and meaning of metaphor. Often a metaphor in language is “created” by breaking the rules of grammar and syntax. Thus the metaphorical meaning would be very different from the ...
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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...
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Negotiating Cultural and Religious Identity in the Postcolony
It is critical to conceptualize “identity” theologically in the contemporary political context provided by postcolonial theory. Identity, religious or political, is not fixed. It is a product of ceaseless negot.....
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Spirituality and Nonviolent Polity in the Postcolony
Critical examination of postcolonial theory’s secular commitments is part of theological thinking in the postcolonial context. Bhabha and Spivak, as we have seen thus far; demonstrate strong commitments to secu.....
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Hegel at the Limits of Discourse
Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel’s Philosophy of History is full of contrasting imageries. On one hand, the telos of Hegelian historiography, “the Germanic World,” stands out against locales, nations, and regions t...
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Reading Sovereign Subjectivity via China
To read and, ultimately, to translate China enabled Leibniz to proclaim the existence of universal reason; nevertheless, he never gave up on the metaphysical principle of predetermination. To him, China express....
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Bodies on Stage: Late Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Blackness
Late eighteenth-century travel and its exposition in scientific reports, travelogues, novels, and letters are full of turmoil: contested perceptions simultaneously enact, threaten, and efface autonomous subject.....
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Doing Theology in the Postcolonial Context: Issues and Problems
In much contemporary postcolonial theory, “religion” is considered to be a separate matter from political theory. The issues of most concern to postcolonial theorists—identity, ethics, and peaceable coexistence.....
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Embodied Ethics in the Postcolony
“Love” is at the heart of embodied postcolonial ethics. There is no other way to guarantee justice for the gendered subaltern.1 However, in order to arrive at “love,” ethical agendas and liberation philosophies o...
