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1 online resource (167 pages) |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: dé-lire: the unconscious factors in reading; Reading as a mode of sublimation; Reading as a subjective positioning; The drive for knowledge, the drive for mastery and the scopic drive; Dé-lire; I Coming to reading; The subject avant la lettre: a little believer; The book, between totem and taboo; The marvellous child; Bathing in the maternal; The subject to the letter; The mother as a stranger: who speaks?; From the mother's tongue to the language of the book: it speaks! |
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To whom? The psychical position of the reader-to-beTo read or not to be: the nightmare of the nonreaders; False theories and beliefs: how not to arrive at meaning; Maintaining the status quo, dealing with the impossible; WATIZDIZ? Preserving the unreadable; II The reading thing and the reading body; Reading as "acting out"; "Loudly and clearly": the Freudian Lesen; "Words & revealed their meaning to me without my naming them"; Another voice: the book-thing; The reading eros; How reading feminizes; "The penumbra of symbolic effectiveness"; III Dé-lire -- the poets' dream |
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Dé-lire 1: the book, Being's native landProust's child reader; The ego, an effect of reading?; The letter, a piece of the body; Dé-lire 2: deleting the name of the father; Splendid splendid splendid splendid; X: the first letter of a new alphabet; Writing: the body's labour against the precarity of the letter; Dé-lire 3: writing to dis-read the need for separation; Father's voice in the words; The father's gaze in the letters of God's name; The primordial letter on the father's body; O R: letters or let her be; Father's letters or the prohibited reading; Writing, a "magical incest." |
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Dé-lire 4: the literary adventure: an impossible matricideAdventure, or the time beyond the mother; "My dreadful wealth"; The unthinkable inscription, or writing as killing; A mother has been killed & in the name of the Symbolic; Literature, or the failure of père-version; Conclusion: reading as a critique of maternal jouissance; Works cited; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317335320 |
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1317335325 |
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