Jacques Lacan

¬¬ ‘Slipping the Punch’ – Roth’s Playful Pugilism in The Human Stain Phillip Roth’s writing is characterised by conflict between a desire to champion the individual over societal codes and conventions, and an almost fatalistic sense that these countervailing forces will always overwhelm individual self-determination and self-expression. This conflict often manifests in, at the very least, an ambivalence about language itself: as Kasia Boddy expresses it in Boxing, A Cultural History, ‘For…

Lacan and Freud worked closely together but their contributions still lead to confusions of how well psychoanalysis is respectful towards culture and prevails the of molds educational expectations. Lacan’s famous assessment of the procedures he named “academic discourse” puts “the radical vice” in “the transmission of knowledge.” “A Master of Arts,” writes Lacan, “as well as other titles, protect the secret of a substantialized knowledge.” Lacan blames “the narrow-minded…

William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was an eminent English Romantic Poet, hose Lyrical Ballad, as a result of joint efforts, co-authoring with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Contributed to launch the Romantic Age in English Literature. He is known as the poet of Nature, reflecting his inner feelings while appreciating the wonderings and beauty of it. (Norton, 543-45) The poem ‘We Are Seven’, as Wordsworth says, has been “written an Alfoxden in the spring of 1798. The little girl who is the heroine I met…

two works. There are external factors and signs such as objects, space, language, and interaction among characters, which leaves the two main character’s sexual and personal identities stagnant due to the inability to successfully travel through Jacques…

Historians using gender as a categorical tool of historical analysis have won prizes from Organization of American Historians and American Historical Association such as Joan Scott and Kathleen Brown. In 1986, Joan Wallach Scott published her groundbreaking article, Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis.” In this article, Scott asserts that gender had not been previously used a conceptual framework like race and class and should be used by historians to examine their subjects. Scott’s…

is much more complex to achieve then merely putting on a performance. The gaze was more of a manner in which the spectator looked and the effect of it, wether it drew signs of desire. In the later stages of the theory ,the gaze was updated by Jacques Lacan who focused more on the male gaze as women were being objectified on screen. As the theory was more developed different variations of the gaze…

The topic of Zizek’s talk is not the so called notion of “Virtual Reality”, but according to zizek the more important idea today is to understand the opposite, “The Reality of the Virtual”. Here, to proceed we need to make these two ideas distinct, "Virtual Reality" is a reality that contains the effect of actual reality but it’s not authentic. It's a kind of a simulation, a potent one. On the other hand the reality of the virtual is by which the actual effects of causes, which are not of the…

Sor Juana uses binary language in her poem “In a Lighter Vein” to explore the idealization of women by men. Sor Juana creates these binaries in order to critique this idealization and presents them in a dichotomous nature to clearly illustrate the indecisive and misguided needs of men. Sor Juana’s use of binary language aligns with French feminist theorist, Ann Rosalind’s categorization of binary language to be more of a masculine discourse, and thus could be argued that Sor Juana writes “In a…

communicate the postmodernist concerns of epistemological uncertainty through destabilising techniques such as gaze, self-reflexive construction, parody and pastiche, reflecting the postmodernist theories of Laura Mulvey, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida. These challenges to certainty are exemplified in Sally…

For Cowie, process of identification through fantasy is not a form of distortion but expressions of deep wishes. It is from two students of Jacques Lacan- Jean Laplanche and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis (Laplanche and Pontalis, 1986) that Cowie got the inspiration for her formulation on ‘fantasy’. Fantasies do not entail the subject to obtain the desired object but through imagination puts oneself in a situation, a scene where the subject can chart out the possibilities of pleasure. Cowie depends…