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Against New Materialisms
No full textThe first comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms including speculative realism, new materialism, Object-oriented ontology and actor-network theory. One of the most influential trends in the humanities and social sciences in the last decades, new materialisms embody a critique of modernity and a pledge to regain immediate reality by focusing on the materiality of the world - human and nonhuman - rather than a post-structuralist focus upon texts. Against New Materialisms examines the theoretical and practical problems connected with discarding modernity and the human subject from a number of interdisciplinary angles: ontology and phenomenology to political theory, mythology and ecology. With contributions from international scholars, including Markus Gabriel, Andrew Cole, and Dipesh Chakrabarty, the essays here challenge the capacity of new materialisms to provide solutions to current international crises, whilst also calling into question what the desire for such theories can tell us about the global situation today
”Det her er bare noe du dikter opp. Det har ingen verdi.”:En dialog om virkelighed og fiktion i Karl Ove Knausgårds Min kamp
No full textNår psykiateren har brug for en psykiater. Om Jacques Lacans 'Spejllæsning' af James Joyce
Get PDFWHEN THE PSYCHIATRIST NEEDS A PSYCHIATRIST. ON JACQUES LACAN’S ‘MIRROR READING’ OF JAMES JOYCEIn continuation of Jung, the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan advances the view (especially in the seminar from 1975-76 entitled ‘Le sinthome’) that Joyce’s writing is a particular individual symptom of Joyce’s latently psychotic mind, which the author uses in his own quasi-psychotic art that, reversely, secured him against an actual outbreak. In this reading of Joyce, Lacan is guilty of what I label a mirror-reading: On the one hand he unconsciously (being spellbound by the allurement of identification) iterates motifs and gesticulations of Joyce’s own text, whereby a hermeneutical intervention does not come off (he does not add anything to the text); on the other hand he grossly misreads Joyce’s biographyand work from an unformulated projection of his own life story, whereby a hermeneutical intervention, moreover, does not come off, since the text remains untouched (it does not add anything to him). The synthesis of text and reader does not occur, and Lacan’s erroneous misreading is striking, yet highly interesting as a symptom of the madness of the interpreter himself that lies dormant ready at any moment to break out in any interpretative situation as such. Lacan remains caught up in his own symptom, whose name rightfully is given and must be understood as ‘Joyce’ – or more generally put: The interpretation of a text always contains the danger that the interpreter unceasingly – and without knowing it – stages his own mad (self-contradictory) symptom. A symptom I have chosen to call the mirror-reading
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The Mother and <em>the word known to all men</em>:Stephen's Struggle with <em>amor matris</em> in James Joyce's <em>Ulysses</em>
No full textWhen the Psychiatrist needs a Psychiatrist:on Jacques Lacan’s ‘mirror-reading’ of James Joyce
No full textLike Jung before him, the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan advances the view (especially in the seminar from 1975-76 entitled Le sinthôme) that Joyce’s writing is an individual symptom of Joyce’s latently psychotic mind, which he used in his own quasi-psychotic art that secured him against an actual outbreak. In this reading of Joyce, Lacan is guilty of what I label a mirror-reading: On the one hand, he unconsciously (being spellbound by the allurement of identification) iterates motifs and gesticulations of Joyce’s own text, whereby a hermeneutical intervention does not come off (i.e. he does not add anything to the text). On the other hand, Lacan grossly misreads Joyce’s biography and work from an unformulated projection of his own life story, whereby a hermeneutical intervention does not come off either, since the text remains untouched. The synthesis of text and reader does not occur, and Lacan’s tautological misreading is striking, yet highly interesting as a symptom of the madness of any interpreter ready at any moment to break out in any interpretive situation as such. Lacan remains caught up in his own symptom, whose name rightfully is given and must be understood as ‘Joyce’—or more generally put: The interpretation of a text always contains the danger that the interpreter unceasingly—and without knowing it—stages his own ‘mad’ (self-contradictory) symptom. A symptom I have chosen to call mirror-reading.</p
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