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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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’Staring Sightlessly’: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence
Act Three: It begins and ends with boots, straining to remove them, and a pleading finally for someone to come, for someone to care; Estragon, in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, calls out ‘feebly’ to Vladimir...
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The Long and the Short of it… Moving Images in Proust and Beckett
Gilles Deleuze’s career as a philosopher and critical theorist held important implications for literary and cinematographic analysis. In particular, Deleuze’s notion of heccéites [haecceities], 1 or the ‘thisness...
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Deviant Masculinity and Deleuzian Difference in Proust and Beckett
In Proust and Signs, Gilles Deleuze maintains that, in In Search of Lost Time, Proust is a philosopher of difference because he goes beyond the ‘abstract truths of “philosophy” that compromise no one and do not d...
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Proustian Puppetry as Deleuzian Sign in A la recherche du temps perdu
Deleuze’s Proust et les signes draws to a close with the search for a metaphor to express the construction of Proust’s novel. The Recherche, he concludes, ‘n’est pas bâtie comme une cathédrale ni comme une robe’ ...
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Introduction
Beckett’s Proust/Deleuze’s Proust situates the French novelist Marcel Proust (1871–1922) between the Irish playwright and novelist Samuel Beckett (1906–89) and the French philosopher and cultural critic Gilles De...
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… Proust… Beckett… Deleuze…: a Quad Regained
I have been most fortunate in accessing and partially transcribing an arguably not insignificant contribution to Proust scholarship, that is, a quad of unpublished, undated, autographed letters, recently unear...
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The Search for Strange Worlds: Deleuzian Semiotics and Proust
In his first major semiotic work, Proust and Signs, Deleuze not only ignores the whole field of semiotics, but the entire history of the philosophy of the sign.2 In a bold affront to both, he instead uses Proust’...
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Signs and Subjectivity in Proust and Signs and Cinema 1 and 2
In the first chapter of Proust and Signs,1 Deleuze develops a system of signs which he suggests is founded on a careful study of Proust’s work. Implicit, in at least a first reading of Proust and Signs, is the as...
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Deleuze, Leibniz, Proust and Beckett: Thinking in Literature
The problem of the image of thought occurs at important moments within Deleuze’s works, yet it is not always at the forefront of his ideas. In Negotiations, Deleuze indicates that Difference and Repetition ‘is re...
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Proust, Deleuze and the Spiritual Automaton
I start from the premise that beyond the book Proust et les signes, Proust has a structural importance in the work of Gilles Deleuze that merits extensive analysis. I will be specifically concerned here, however,...
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Models of Musical Communication in Proust and Beckett
One day in 1983, Nicholas Zurbrugg (1947–2001), professor of comparative literature, sits at his desk working on his article on ‘Beckett, Proust and “Dream of Fair to Middling Women” ‘.1 Again he reads the senten...
