Beckett, Lacan and the mathematical writing of the real / Arka Chattopadhyay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chattopadhyay, Arka, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989--Criticism and interpretation.

Beckett, Samuel.

Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.

Lacan, Jacques.

Mathematics and literature.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Reality and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Summary:

"Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real proposes writing as a mathematical and logical operation to build a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Samuel Beckett's prose works. Arka Chattopadhyay studies aspects such as the fundamental operational logic of a text, use of mathematical forms like geometry and arithmetic, the human obsession with counting, the moving body as an act of writing and love, and sexuality as a challenge to the limits of what can be written through logic and mathematics. Chattopadhyay reads Beckett's prose works, including How It Is, Company, Worstward Ho, Malone Dies and Enough to highlight this terminal writing, which halts endless meanings with the material body of the word and gives Beckett a medium to inscribe what cannot be written otherwise."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Foreword /Anthony Uhlmann, Western Sydney University, Australia

1. Real Writing in Literature and Psychoanalysis

2. One...All...Alone: Borromean Logic of Solitude and Company in How It Is

3. Company and the Motility of the Real Unconscious

4. Jouissance of Worsening in Lituraterre: Worstward Ho

5. Mathematised Body and Sexual Rapport

6. Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781501341199

1501341197

9781501341182

1501341189

9781501341175

1501341170

OCLC:

1063925433