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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461153503321

Autore

Ramel Annie

Titolo

The madder stain : a psychoanalytic reading of Thomas Hardy / / by Annie Ramel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill/Rodopi, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-29662-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 pages)

Collana

Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, , 1571-4977 ; ; Volume 21

Disciplina

823/.8

Soggetti

Psychoanalysis and literature - England - History - 19th century

Psychoanalysis and literature - England - History - 20th century

Voice in literature

Psychology in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Letter Killeth -- The Feminine: Reading Hardy after Lacan’s xxth Seminar -- The Logic of Desire -- The Object Gaze -- The Object-Voice -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.

Sommario/riassunto

The “madder stain” imprinted on Tess d’Urberville’s arm is part of a motif which runs through Hardy’s fiction. Similar to Barthes’s punctum shooting out of the studium , the stain is a place where the Real erupts, a blind spot that eludes interpretation. In the diegesis of the tragic novels, it is a surplus object whose intrusion disrupts reality and spells disaster. This book attempts to approach that unknowable kernel of jouissance by using Lacan’s concepts of object-gaze and object-voice—sometimes revisited by Zizek. The stain has a vocal quality: it is silence audible. In a world where sound cannot reverberate for lack of a structural void, voice is by necessity muted, stuck in the throat. Hence the peculiar quality of Tess’s voice, a silent feminine cry that has retained something of the lost vocal object. The sound of silence is what Hardy’s poetic prose allows us to hear.