Making the Real Appear
Schmitt’s Enigma Variations as a “Traversal of the Fantasy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7927102 |
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| Authors | Graham Wolfe (0000-0002-1237-382X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 147-162 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2013.0017 |
| OpenAlex | W2032145879 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
This essay draws upon the recent work of Alenka Zupančič and Slavoj Žižek to explore Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt’s Enigma Variations. The play gives acute expression to their “Lacanian” mode of comedy, staging a “traversal of the fantasy” that gestures toward new modes of configuring the sublime and confronting the Real
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Comedy · Fantasy · Gesture · Linguistics · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sublime · Tree traversal · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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