Literature and Psychoanalysis: Open Questions: Paragraph Volume 40, Issue 3

ISBN-13: 9781474424837 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 128 str.

Elissa Marder

Opis

In 1977, Shoshana Felman opened up the question of how literature and psychoanalysis speak to each other's most intimate concerns with her landmark volume of Yale French Studies entitled Literature and Psychoanalysis: The Question of Reading ("Otherwise"). That relationship, she proposed, needed to be reinvented and transformed into a real dialogue between two different bodies of language and two different modes of knowledge.

Over the forty years that have elapsed since the publication of Felman's 1977 volume, the encounter between literature and psychoanalysis has participated in the emergence of several new fields of critical inquiry, such as trauma, testimony, affect theory, neuro-psychoanalysis, and performance studies, and has been a privileged space for reflections on mourning, singularity, translation, transference, and translatability, the death drive, repetition, violence, cruelty, virtual reality, the clinic, and sexuality. In a world that has become enamored with modes of knowledge production that respond to ever increasing demands for quantifiable verification (the science of the brain) or for programmatic applicability, literature and psychoanalysis continue to offer an intractable resistance.

Inspired (both directly and indirectly) by Felman's 1977 volume and working from the premise that this intractability is itself a source of potential transformation, the essays in this issue of Paragraph look to literature and psychoanalysis to invent new forms for the future.

Spis treści

‘Preface (To Re-Open the Question)’, Shoshana Felman ‘Introduction’, Elissa Marder ‘The Body’s Testimony: Dramatic Witness in the Eichmann Trial’, Cathy Caruth ‘The Transfer of Complaint: A Narcissistic Time-Share’, Avital Ronell ‘Nothing to Say: The Negative Phrase of Affect’, Claire Nouvet ‘What Are the Chances? Psychoanalysis, Telepathy, and the Accident’, Elizabeth Rottenberg ‘SF’, Forbes Morlock, ‘Freud’s Fictions: Fixation, Femininity, Photography’, Elissa Marder ‘The Function and Field of Scansion in Jacques Lacan’s Poetics of Speech’, Isabelle Alfandary ‘Small Experimental Action’, Sarah Wood ‘Dream Treatment: On Sitting Down to Read a Letter from Freud’, Nicholas Royle