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

• Autore: Ramel Annie
• Pubblicazione: Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill/Rodopi, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (190 pages)
• Disciplina: 823/.8
• Soggetto topico: Psychoanalysis and literature - England - History - 19th century; Psychoanalysis and literature - England - History - 20th century; Voice in literature; Psychology in literature
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The madder stain
• ISBN: 90-04-29662-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810400703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ; ; Volume 21.