The Space and Dialogue of Desire
Lacan, Greimas, and Narrative Temporality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10614560 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ronald Schleifer (0000-0003-3898-292X) |
| Year | 1983 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 871 |
| Publication date | 1983-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Language Notes (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0149-6611 • E-ISSN: 2326-1978 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2906052 |
| OpenAlex | W2319007228 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
In Freudian Thing Jacques Lacan attempts to narrative return to Freud in psychoanalysis. The form of his narration is a kind of polemical ventriloquism in which Lacan speaks for his adversaries, for Truth herself, and in a section entitled discourse of the other, for the desk behind which he stands as he talks. In this essay the narration of his discourse on and with things takes the forms of a colloquy with his audience, riveted so respectfully in those seats to listen to me despite the ballet of calls to work (E, p. 132), the plot of a murder mystery (E, p. 123), the frenzy of a tragic chorus (E, p. 124), the nonsense of a joke (E, p. 122), the allegory of Acteon's dismemberment (E, p. 124), a game for four players (E, p. 139), and, as I have said, the discourse-what Lacan calls the fable (E, p. 136)-of the desk.' For Lacan, things are problematic: Truth herself says, speaking through Lacan, that trade route of truth no longer passes through thought: strange to say, it seems to pass through things. ... Here, no doubt, things are my signs, but, I repeat, signs of my
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Temporality · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · French Literature and Critical Theory · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 1990 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |