Spectacular Fictions

Students of rhetoric have often described metaphor as a displacement, a veiling, of the proper name; hence, as the loss of an original presence.1 Similarly, psychoanalytic theorists have considered parapraxis or the tropes of hysteria as traces, veiling yet disclosing the workings of repression and the primary processes of the unconscious. In Lacanian theory, the individual's separation from these primary processes is essential to the very production of the subject: through repression the subject acquires a position in the order in language, in the symbolic relations of family and state.2 The subject becomes an author, a producer of sentences

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• Prisoners of Reflection

  Robert Epstein•Exemplaria•2003

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• Changing Perspectives

  Open Access•Gwilym Dodd•Parliamentary History•2008

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• Prisoners of Reflection

  Robert Epstein•Exemplaria•2003

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• Language and materialism

  John Ellis, Rosalind Coward•Language and materialism•1993

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• The Poems of William Dunbar

  William Dunbar, James Kinsley•The poems of William Dunbar•1979

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• White Mythology

  Jacques Derrida, F C Moore et al.•New Literary History•1974

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• The Great Game of Rhetoric

  Paul Zumthor, Edward Tomarken et al.•New Literary History•1981

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• The Epistemology of Metaphor

  Paul De Man•Critical Inquiry•1978

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