Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real

AvArka Chattopadhyay

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real proposes writing as a mathematical and logical operation to build a bridge between Lacanian psychoanalysis and Samuel Beckett’s prose works. Arka Chattopadhyay studies aspects such as the fundamental operational logic of a text, use of mathematical forms like geometry and arithmetic, the human obsession with counting, the moving body as an act of writing and love, and sexuality as a challenge to the limits of what can be written through logic and mathematics. Chattopadhyay reads Beckett’s prose works, including How It Is, Company, Worstward Ho, Malone Dies and Enough to highlight this terminal writing, which halts endless meanings with the material body of the word and gives Beckett a medium to inscribe what cannot be written otherwise.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-13
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:467 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781501341168

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Mer om författaren

Arka Chattopadhyay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India. He co-editor of Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature (with James Martell, 2013) and Endlessness of Ending: Samuel Beckett and the Extensions of Mind (with Dirk Van Hulle et al, 2017). He is co-editor of the journal Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry (with Sourit Bhattacharya).

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Envisioned as a “psychoanalytic reading of Beckett (…) through a literary reading of Lacan” (193), the book manages to analyze one of modernism’s most essential and complex authors while illuminating Lacanian psychoanalysis’ own intricate knots with literary modernism, which according to Chattopadhyay cannot not have mathematical form.

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword Anthony Uhlmann, Western Sydney University, Australia1. Real Writing in Literature and Psychoanalysis 2. One… All… Alone: Borromean Logic of Solitude and Company in How It Is3. Company and the Motility of the Real Unconscious 4. Jouissance of Worsening in Lituraterre: Worstward Ho5. Mathematised Body and Sexual Rapport 6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex