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Genet, Lacan and the ontology of incompletion / James Penney.
LIBRA PQ2613.E53 Z676 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Penney, James, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ontology.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Philosophy, French.
- French literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- French literature.
- Genet, Jean, 1910-1986--Criticism and interpretation.
- Genet, Jean.
- Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981.
- Lacan, Jacques.
- Genet, Jean, 1910-1986.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 218 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2023.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: The nothing and the abyss
- Poetry and logic
- Ontology, femininity, orientation
- Jouissance, undeconstructed
- Genet now
- 1. Logic and fantasy: Freud on Moses
- Moses: Michelangelo's and Freud's
- Scrolls and whorls
- The psychoanalytic act
- The emancipation of interpretation
- 2. Towards feminine being: Our Lady of the Flowers
- Out from under Sartre
- Saint Divine
- Feminine sexuation against gender theory
- Seeing through the phallus
- 3. The phallus unveiled: The Balcony
- A gigantic phallus
- The image in history
- An image of castration
- The power of the dildo
- From revolutionary to populist hero
- 4. Residue of modernity, wound of being: Genet on art
- Science, or Cartesian hysteria
- The essence of ousia
- Stranger on a train
- Solitude and the non-relation
- The wound of being
- Towards sublimation
- 5. Postcoloniality meets indeterminate negation: The Screens
- An ontology of defecation
- Jouissance after the revolution
- Hysterias sublation
- Nomadic negativity
- The image that refuses to form
- 6. The image of absence: Prisoner of Love
- Missing cards, absent ancestors
- A supernumerary orange
- Maronite enjoyments
- Ethical commemoration
- The eclipse of femininity
- Being and melancholy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1350300500
- 9781350300507
- OCLC:
- 1328130091
- Publisher Number:
- 99993194486
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