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From Element to Structure
Get PDFThe aim of this article is to discuss the changes in the conception of language in Jacques Lacan’s teaching based on the transformation of its minimum element, the signifier. We will begin by reconstructing the first definition of the signifier that we find in the Seminar of the 1950s with anthropological-linguistic structuralism, approaching its transformation at the beginning of the 1960s with the introduction of the unary trait. In this paper, we will try to extract each comprehension of language that follows or are derived from the different definitions of signifier. Doing so, we will indicate the solidarity between the element and the structure, that is, how the properties of one interfere in the consistency of the other and how, in the change operated by Lacan on the element, a modification is extracted in the structuring of language
Pulsão de morte e teoria crítica
No full textMuch has been said about death drive in Critical Theory. This concept was mainly read as an aggressive and/or destructive drive. As a consequence, there are two ways of finding death drive in critical theories: the classic mode represented by Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse, and, more recently, Whitebook, in which death drive is seen as a factor that gives psychoanalysis its negativity face; or a way that leads to the despise of the nuclear function of death drive in psychoanalytic theory in name of normativity, as it happens in Fromm and Honneth. What I propose here is, from a comparison of both Freud’s texts, “Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through” (1914) and “Beyond the Pleasure Principle” (1920), to present a new way of appropriating the concept of death drive to produce a current critical theory. This means not considering the Wiederholungszwang as simply an imperative for coercion, but also a repetition compulsion. By proposing this reading of death drive (as suggested by Freud in 1920), I believe it is possible to amplify the range of possible connections between psychoanalysis and Critical Theory, keeping the negativity side, but without losing its normativity
‘Bisexuality’ in the Origins of Psychoanalysis
Get PDFMany authors have examined texts by Freud that belong to the “prehistory” of psychoanalysis. They deal with anatomy, physiology and neuropathology and date from the period from 1876 to 1886. In this article we examine some of these texts and point to some consequences of the study of this beginning of Freudian psychoanalytic thought
La psicosi della forma. Note sul «Leonardo» di Freud e «Il rituale del serpente di Warburg»
Get PDFThe aim of this article is to outline the contours of a theoretical configuration that emerges from the comparison between Freud’s essay Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood and Warburg’s Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America: the psychosis of form. This expression describes the hallucinatory fixation of something that at the same time insists on the analytical discourse on the representation of the image, disrupting both.L’articolo si propone di delineare i contorni di una configurazione teorica che emerge dal confronto tra il saggio di Freud, Un ricordo d’infanzia di Leonardo da Vinci e Il rituale del serpente di Warburg: la psicosi della forma. Con questa locuzione si indica la fissazione allucinatoria di qualcosa che insiste insieme sul discorso analitico e sulla rappresentazione dell’immagine, scompaginando l’ordine di entrambe
The Anti-conquest of Space/Time in Graham Greene’s Africa
Get PDFThis paper seeks to explore via a postcolonial lens Graham Greene’s peculiar handling of space-time in Journey without Maps, a travel account of his trek through Liberia, and his African novel The Heart of the Matter, set during WWII in Sierra Leone. The attempt to cut across generic borders to examine the meanders of discourse draws upon David Spurr’s The Rhetoric of Empire, where various tropes are held up for critical scrutiny as focal mediators of colonial perspectives on other cultures. However, the overriding argument is informed by Mary Louise Pratt’s concept of the anti-conquest which suggests that even empathetic attitudes toward Africa can be underwritten by European, white, male privilege. Of particular interest is Greene’s honest vision coupled with the tenacity of Africanist discourse that resurfaces as a transposition of physical movement across foreign lands into a journey through the library to encode a Western existentialist angst à la Conrad. A further displacement involves the incorporation of an idealized African space-time into a psychic drama of the individual and collective Western self. The ultimate effect of these double gestures is that Graham Greene assumes the paradoxical posture of the liberal colonizer
The Public Dimension of Homosexual(S) Dwelling in the Sinosphere: Parks in Pai Hsien-Yung’s Crystal Boys And Mu Cao’s Poems
Get PDFThe experience of the public dimension of dwelling varies considerably according to the different positions of individuals in the social space in which it takes place. This essay is interested in investigating how literature, as a form of social critique and analysis, can explore this side of the public dimension of dwelling, focusing on the representation of parks as places of homosexual dwelling in the works of Pai Hsien-yung and Mu Cao. After examining the implications of social space for the dynamics of dwelling in the city, with a focus on unequal relations of class and sexuality, the essay maintains the focus on space by discussing the role of literature as a representational space, before moving on to a close reading of the texts under consideration in order to analyze how parks are approached in terms of dwelling for stigmatized homosexual men and how their public dimension is questioned and reassessed. The essay concludes that the experience of the public dimension of dwelling is inseparable from the modalities of its interaction with the larger social space of which it is a part
Dwelling in Subaltern Spaces. Contemporary Representations of Italian New Mobilities
Get PDFThis essay presents a reflection on the spaces of recent Italian outgoing migrations (generally referred to as “new mobilities” in the national debate) and on how the ontological condition of recent “expats” is defined by the way in which they dwell in these new spaces of mobility. An analysis of the terminology of impermanence deployed to refer to recent outgoing mobilities reveals how such terminology is intended to create a discontinuity with historical Italian emigration and with the subaltern positions that Italian emigrants have come to occupy both in their country of origin and in their countries of destination. Through the analysis of three case studies – a blog that has also become a book, Donne che emigrano all’estero. Storie di italiane nel mondo (2016), the documentary La Deutsche Vita (2013), and the web series Italianers (2015-2016) – the essay examines how the anxiety associated with a possible inherited subalternity resurfaces in recent narratives of relocation
Klaus W. Hempfer, Fundamentals of Literary Theory
Get PDFReview of Klaus W. Hempfer's Fundamentals of Literary Theory.Recensione del volume Fundamentals of Literary Theory di Klaus W. Hempfer
Gloria Scarfone, Anatomia del personaggio romanzesco. Storia, forme e teorie di una categoria letteraria
Get PDFReview of Gloria Scarfone's Anatomia del personaggio romanzesco. Storia, forme e teorie di una categoria letteraria.Recensione del volume di Gloria Scarfone Anatomia del personaggio romanzesco. Storia, forme e teorie di una categoria letteraria
Pegaso (1924): ubicación y balance de una revista olvidada
Get PDFBefore his first international tour, Xavier Abril (Peru, 1905 - Uruguay, 1990) edited the magazine Pegaso (1924) from Lima, a publication little studied by specialised critics. This paper proposes to analyse the components of Pegaso, linking historical facts and artistic-literary materials. It will examine the community of intellectuals that the magazine sought to make visible during its brief existence to highlight the dialogues between artists and the Peruvian (and international) cultural context of the early twentieth century. From this panoramic reconstruction, the relationship between Pegaso and the classification of Xavier Abril’s early poems as avant-garde expressions will be explored. To this end, the reflections of Michael Löwy and Robert Sayre on romanticism as a pre-modern and critical vision facing of capitalism will be incorporated. In this sense, our main aim will be to contextualise and analyse the magazine’s content. In contrast, as a secondary aim, we will problematise the identification of Xavier Abril, between 1923 and 1926, as a surrealist authorbased on his poems published in Pegaso.Antes de su primer periplo internacional, Xavier Abril (Perú, 1905 - Uruguay, 1990) dirigió desde Lima la evista Pegaso (1924), una publicación poco estudiada por la crítica especializada. Este trabajo propone analizar los componentes de Pegaso, vinculando hechos históricos y materiales artístico-literarios. En particular, se examinará la comunidad de intelectuales que la revista buscó visibilizar durante su breve existencia, con el propósito de destacar los diálogos entre artistas y el contexto cultural peruano (e internacional) de principios del siglo XX. A partir de esta reconstrucción panorámica, se explorará la relación entre Pegaso y la clasificación de los primeros poemas de Xavier Abril como expresiones vanguardistas. Para ello, se incorporarán las reflexiones de Michael Löwy y Robert Sayre sobre el romanticismo como una visiónpremoderna y crítica frente al capitalismo. En ese sentido, nuestro objetivo principal será contextualizar y analizar el contenido de la revista, mientras que, como propósito secundario, se problematizará la identificación de Xavier Abril, entre 1923 y 1926, como un autor surrealista a partir de sus poemas publicados en Pegaso.Antes de su primer periplo internacional, Xavier Abril (Perú, 1905 - Uruguay, 1990) dirigió desde Lima la evista Pegaso (1924), una publicación poco estudiada por la crítica especializada. Este trabajo propone analizar los componentes de Pegaso, vinculando hechos históricos y materiales artístico-literarios. En particular, se examinará la comunidad de intelectuales que la revista buscó visibilizar durante su breve existencia, con el propósito de destacar los diálogos entre artistas y el contexto cultural peruano (e internacional) de principios del siglo XX. A partir de esta reconstrucción panorámica, se explorará la relación entre Pegaso y la clasificación de los primeros poemas de Xavier Abril como expresiones vanguardistas. Para ello, se incorporarán las reflexiones de Michael Löwy y Robert Sayre sobre el romanticismo como una visiónpremoderna y crítica frente al capitalismo. En ese sentido, nuestro objetivo principal será contextualizar y analizar el contenido de la revista, mientras que, como propósito secundario, se problematizará la identificación de Xavier Abril, entre 1923 y 1926, como un autor surrealista a partir de sus poemas publicados en Pegaso