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Re: VN, Lacan, & Ermarth (fwd)
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Interestingly enough, Kristeva has a chapter on _The Real Life of
Sebastian Knight_ in her _Strangers to Ourselves_ (the translation was
published by Columbia in '91, I think).
Also, as far as Lacan and VN, one interesting place to start might be
Lacan's remark (I paraphrase) that Kojeve was his master--if I'm not
mistaken, Lacan attended Kojeve's celebrated lectures on Hegel (a
compilation of notes, much like Saussure's _Cours_ is available--Kojeve
believed that history had ended and hence did not write); at any rate, the
"Hegelian subtext" (NB: my inverted commas) in Lacan's "Mirror stage as
formative of the function 'I'" might provide a lever for discussion of
either/both mirror tropes and spir(itu)alized dialectics in VN. ...just a
thought really.
-Seth Young
Sebastian Knight_ in her _Strangers to Ourselves_ (the translation was
published by Columbia in '91, I think).
Also, as far as Lacan and VN, one interesting place to start might be
Lacan's remark (I paraphrase) that Kojeve was his master--if I'm not
mistaken, Lacan attended Kojeve's celebrated lectures on Hegel (a
compilation of notes, much like Saussure's _Cours_ is available--Kojeve
believed that history had ended and hence did not write); at any rate, the
"Hegelian subtext" (NB: my inverted commas) in Lacan's "Mirror stage as
formative of the function 'I'" might provide a lever for discussion of
either/both mirror tropes and spir(itu)alized dialectics in VN. ...just a
thought really.
-Seth Young