Lacan’s statement in his seminar on Poe’s “The Purloined Letter” that the letter itself is a symbol of the unconscious‚ it can be discerned that in Mrs. Dalloway‚ the sky-writing airplane and the letters it attempts to form perform a similar function (Lacan‚ 39). This particular scene‚ in which it seems that all of London is staring up into the sky at an airplane‚ letters appear in the sky for a moment‚ then dissipate before anyone can see what they actually say. The fact that the meaning of the letters
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Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) is one of the most influential thinkers in the field of psychoanalysis. He uses the notions developed by Ferdinand de Saussure in the field of linguistics and structuralism and theories of Sigmund Freud in the field of psychoanalysis to explain human psyche. His theories can be extended to the field of literary criticism‚ in an attempt to reveal the mental aspect of the writer and reader in the literature. In this paper‚ I will reintroduce some of the key concepts of Lacan
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Freud‚ Saussure and Lacan: Interpreting dreams of a mad king‚ significations of a modern Ulysses and unrealities in a story of passion The equation ‘Freud + Saussure = Lacan’ is a student-friendly basis for streamlining the complex theories of these three major modern thinkers towards a common and purposeful analytical illustration of psychoanalytic and linguistic fundamentals. In today’s world of interdisciplinary studies‚ it is also included in literary studies to help students of literature
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Roundtable Discussion Structure‚ Sign and Play - Jacques Derrida ‘Structure‚ Sign and Play’‚ is a paper which involves the author - Derrida‚ encouraging the use of several different perspectives to view a concept. In doing so‚ he is able to find a common ground between different viewpoints whilst finding new ways of thinking against a classical perspective. Derrida finds a way to put an argument (against old concepts) into a correspondence within themselves whilst introducing his own concepts
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5 Psychoanalytic criticism Introduction Psychoanalytic criticism is a form of literary criticism which uses some of the techniques of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of literature. Psychoanalysis itself is a form of therapy which aims to cure mental disorders ’hy investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind’ (as the Concise Oxford Dictionary puts it). The classic method of doing this is to get the patient to talk freely‚ in such a way that the repressed
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Inter American University of Puerto Rico Metro Campus Cultural Theory: Summary of: Althusser’s Concept of Ideology Louis Althusser builds on the work of Jacques Lacan to understand the way ideology functions in society. He thus moves away from the Marxist understanding of ideology. In earlier model‚ ideology was believe to create what was termed “false consciousness”‚ a false understanding of the way the world functioned. (For example the suppressions of the fact that the products were
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For the topic of 9-11‚ three theorists that have stood out and emerged most strongly are Slavoj Zizek‚ Jean Baudrillard‚ and Jacques Derrida. This essay will concentrate on and explore their theoretical perspectives to bring out both their similarities and the important differences between them. Slavoj Zizek is a Lacanian-Marxist who uses the psychoanalyst theories of Lacan combined with a Marxist critique of capitalist society to form his own unique social theories. Lacan’s distinction between
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The Lacanian Mirror: Reflections on Oldboy According to Jacques Lacan in the “The Mirror Stage”‚ the stage is “an identification” in which the subject undergoes a transformation by assuming an image in the mirror (34). There is a “jubilant assumption of his specular image by the child” (34) as he admires the wholeness of the reflection and longs to identify with it. At the same time‚ however‚ the wholeness of the image is compared to the fragmented condition of the child’s body and is‚ thus‚ met
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Jacques Marquette Jacques Marquette was a fifteenth century Jesuit explorer whose most revered goals were to find the Mississippi River in the New World and convert Indians along the way. As a young boy in France‚ he had already started his Jesuit training in Jesuit University in Reims. Marquette’s childhood wish was to become a missionary and spread Christianity. In 1666‚ Marquette’s wish was granted by King Louis XIV‚ who was eager to expand French territory to the New World. At the same
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grotesque revenge plot. Rather than expanding the territory of female identity Weldon uses satire as a wedge to illustrate the futility of the feminine “masquerade” (Lacan 583). Weldon’s bifurcation demonstrates that female identity remains entirely dependent on phallic parameters. It is only through the protagonist’s metaphysical transmogriMication
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