LEADER 03256oam 2200601 c 450 001 9910967975903321 005 20260202090927.0 010 $a9783838272399 010 $a3838272390 024 3 $a9783838272399 035 $a(CKB)4100000007801715 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5782679 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5614023 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5614023 035 $a(OCoLC)1090240365 035 $a(Perlego)862206 035 $a(ibidem)9783838272399 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007801715 100 $a20260202d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBeckett, Lacan and the Gaze /$fLlewellyn Brown, Paul Stewart 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aHannover$cibidem$d2019 215 $a1 online resource (625 pages) 225 0 $aSamuel Beckett in Company$v6 311 08$a9783838212395 311 08$a3838212398 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations and editions used for works by Beckett -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 - The collapse of Collective Reality -- 2 - Mirrors and Frames -- 3 - Light and Darkness -- 4 - Doubles and Spectres -- 5 - Variants of an Ideal -- 6 - The Monad -- 7 - Seeing and Unseeing -- 8 - Technology and the Gaze -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aForming a pair with the voice, the gaze is a central structuring element of Samuel Beckett?s creation. And yet it takes the form of a strangely impersonal visual dimension testifying to the absence of an original exchange of gazes capable of founding personal identity and opening up the world to desire. The collapse of conventional reality and the highlighting of seeing devices?eyes, mirrors, windows?point to the absence of a unified representation. While masks and closed spaces show the visible to be opaque and devoid of any beyond, light and darkness, spectres?manifestations without origin?reveal a realm beyond the confines of identity, where nothing provides a mediation with the seen, or sets it within perspective. Finally, Beckett?s use of the audio-visual media deepens his exploration of the irreducibly real part of existence that escapes seeing. This study systematically examines these essential aspects of the visual in Beckett?s creation. The theoretical elaborations of Jacques Lacan?in relation with corresponding developments in the history and philosophy of the visual arts?offer an indispensible framework to understand the imaginary not as representation, but as rooted in the fundamental opacity of existence. 410 0$aSamuel Beckett in company ;$v5. 606 $aBeckett 606 $aLacan 606 $aLiterature 606 $aLiteratur 615 4$aBeckett 615 4$aLacan 615 4$aLiterature 615 4$aLiteratur 676 $a848.91409 700 $aBrown$b Llewellyn$4aut$01178603 702 $aStewart$b Paul$4edt 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967975903321 996 $aBeckett, Lacan, and the gaze$93993371 997 $aUNINA