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The Madder Stain
The \"madder stain\" imprinted on Tess d'Urberville's arm is part of a motif which runs through Hardy's fiction. This book attempts to approach that unknowable kernel of jouissance by using Lacan's concepts of object-gaze and object-voice--sometimes revisited by Zizek.
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Understanding and treating patients in clinical psychoanalysis : lessons from literature
\"Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis: Lessons from literature describes the problematic ways people learn to cope with life's fundamental challenges, such as maintaining self-esteem, bearing loss, and growing old. People tend to deal with the challenges of being human in characteristic, repetitive ways. Descriptions of these patterns in diagnostic terms can be at best dry, and at worst confusing, especially for those starting training in any of the clinical disciplines to try to appeal to a wider audience. This book illustrates each coping pattern using vivid, compelling fiction whose characters express their dilemmas in easily accessible, evocative language. Sandra Buechler uses these examples to show some of the ways we complicate our lives and, through reimagining different scenarios for these characters, she illustrates how clients can achieve greater emotional health and live their lives more productively. Drawing on the work of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Munro, Mann, James, O'Connor, Chopin, McCullers, Carver, and the many other authors represented here, Buechler shows how their keen observational short fiction portrays self-hurtful styles of living. She explores how human beings cope using schizoid, paranoid, grandiose, hysteric, obsessive, and other defensive styles. Each is costly, in many senses, and each limits the possibility for happiness and fulfillment. Understanding and Treating Patients in Clinical Psychoanalysis offers insights into what living with and working with personality disorders really means through a series of examples of the major personality disorders as explained in literature. Through these fictitious examples, psychoanalysts and trainees, undergraduate and graduate students can gain a greater understanding of how someone becomes paranoid, schizoid, narcissistic, obsessive, or depressive, and how that affects them, and those around them, including the mental health professionals who work with them.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Lacan in Public
Lacan in Public argues that Lacan’s contributions
to the theory of rhetoric are substantial and revolutionary and
that rhetoric is, in fact, the central concern of Lacan’s
entire body of work.
Scholars typically cite Jacques
Lacan as a thinker primarily concerned with issues of desire,
affect, politics, and pleasure. And though Lacan explicitly
contends with some of the pivotal thinkers in the field of
rhetoric, rhetoricians have been hesitant to embrace the French
thinker both because his writing is difficult and because
Lacan’s conception of rhetoric runs counter to the American
traditions of rhetoric in composition and communication studies.
Lacan’s conception of rhetoric, Christian Lundberg argues
in
Lacan in Public , upsets and extends the received wisdom
of American rhetorical studies—that rhetoric is a science,
rather than an art; that rhetoric is predicated not on the
reciprocal exchange of meanings, but rather on the impossibility
of such an exchange; and that rhetoric never achieves a
correspondence with the real-world circumstances it attempts to
describe. As Lundberg shows, Lacan’s work speaks directly
to conversations at the center of current rhetorical scholarship,
including debates regarding the nature of the public and public
discourses, the materiality of rhetoric and agency, and the
contours of a theory of persuasion.
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The masochistic pleasures of sentimental literature
For generations, critics have noticed in nineteenth-century American women's sentimentality a streak of masochism, but their discussions of it have over-simplified its complex relationship to women's power. Marianne Noble argues that tropes of eroticized domination in sentimental literature must be recognized for what they were: a double-edged sword of both oppression and empowerment. She begins by exploring the cultural forces that came together to create this ideology of desire, particularly Protestant discourses relating suffering to love and middle-class discourses of \"true womanhood.\" She goes on to demonstrate how sentimental literature takes advantage of the expressive power in the convergence of these two discourses to imagine women's romantic desire. Therefore, in sentimental literature, images of eroticized domination are not antithetical to female pleasure but rather can be constitutive of it. The book, however, does not simply celebrate that fact. In readings of Warner's The Wide Wide World, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Dickinson's sentimental poetry, it addresses the complex benefits and costs of nineteenth-century women's literary masochism. Ultimately it shows how these authors both exploited and were shaped by this discursive practice.
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Staging Masculinity
Performance was one of the five canonical branches of oratory in the classical period, but it presents special problems that distinguish it from concerns such as composition and memory. The ancient performer was supposed to be a \"good man\" and his performance a manifestation of an authentic and authoritative manliness. But how can the orator be distinguished from a mere actor? And what is the proper role for the body, given that it is a potential object of desire?
Erik Gunderson explores these and other questions in ancient rhetorical theory using a variety of theoretical approaches, drawing in particular on the works of Judith Butler, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan. His study examines the status of rhetorical theory qua theory, the production of a specific version of body in the course of its theoretical description, oratory as a form of self-mastery, the actor as the orator's despised double, the dangers of homoerotic pleasure, and Cicero'sDe Oratore, as what good theory and practice ought to look like.
Erik Gunderson is Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin, Ohio State University.
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