The beach (a fantasy)

Critical Inquiry

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 249-277

  Taussig, Michael ^a  

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References (42)

1. See Sigmund Freud, letter to Wilhelm Fliess, 2 May 1897, in The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess, trans, and ed. Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Cambridge, Mass., 1985), p. 239
2. William Burroughs, "The Literary Techniques of Lady Sutton-Smith," Times Literary Supplement, 6 Aug. 1964, p. 682
3. See Charles Olson, Call Me Ishmael (San Francisco, 1947)
4. James Joyce, Ulysses: Annotated Student's Edition, ed. Declan Kiberd (Harmondsworth, 1992), pp. 3, 1,4; hereafter abbreviated U
5. Quoted in Walter Benjamin, "N [Theoretics of Knowledge; Theory of Progress]," The Philosophical Forum 15 (Fall-Winter 1983-84): 12; hereafter abbreviated "N."
6. Theodor W. Adorno, "A Portrait of Walter Benjamin," Prisms, trans. Samuel and Shierry Weber (Cambridge, Mass., 1981), p. 233
7. Olson, Call Ate Ishmael, p. 13
8. Benjamin, "The Storyteller: Reflections on the Work of Nikolai Leskov," Illuminations, trans. Harry Zohn, ed. Hannah Arendt (New York, 1969), p. 87
9. Georg Lukács, "Reification and the Consciousness of the Proletariat," History and Class Consciousness: Studies in Marxist Dialectics, trans. Rodney Livingstone (London, 1971), p. 83
10. Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies, trans. Stephen Conway, Erica Carter, and Chris Turner, 2 vols. (Minneapolis, 1987), l:xviii-xix
11. See Hakim Bey, T. A. Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism (New York, 1985). See also Peter Lamborn Wilson, Pirate Utopias: Moorish Corsairs and European Renegadoes (New York, 1995)
12. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night (New York, 1981), p. 332
13. Benjamin,'"Theses on the Philosophy of History," Illuminations, p. 264
14. Her father was German, born in Grabow, in the Polish Corridor, and a professor of entomology. See Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath (Boston, 1989), pp. 4-5
15. Ted Hughes, "Dream Life," Birthday Letters (New York, 1998), p. 141
16. Sylvia Plath, "Daddy," Ariel (New York, 1966), p. 49
17. See Peter Linebaugh, "'All the Atlantic Mountains Shook,'" Journal of Canadian Labour Studies 10 (Autumn 1982): 87-121
18. quot;I have settled on the image of ships in motion across the spaces between Europe, America, Africa, and the Caribbean as a central organizing symbol for this enterprise and as my starting point" (Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness [Cambridge, Mass., 1993], p. 4). This helps him get away from nationalistic and ethnically rooted analyses, in favor of the "rhizomorphic, fractal structure of the transcultural, international formation I call the black Atlantic" (ibid.)
19. Jacqueline Rose, The Haunting of Sylvia Plath (Cambridge, Mass., 1991), p. 227. Rose has suggested that the poem "Daddy" outlines "the conditions under which that celebrated loss of the symbolic function takes place." She goes on to point out that if identity and language thus lose themselves in the place of the father (and the Lacanian reference is resonant here), his absence nevertheless gives him unlimited powers. In fact she regards this poem as addressing the "production of fantasy as such," "a poem about its own conditions of linguistic and phantasmic production"
20. Ernest Jones, Years of Maturity: 1901-1919, vol. 2 of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (New York, 1955), p. 341. See Freud, "Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's Gravida" The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, trans, and ed. James Strachey, 24 vols. (London, 1953-74), 9:7-93
21. Jones, The Formative Years and the Great Discoveries, 1856-1900, vol. 1 of The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (New York, 1953), p. 331. Freud's letters to Fliess are a gold mine for such Italian references
22. W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer, introduction to J. \V. Goethe, Italian Journey, 1786-1788, trans. Auden and Mayer (San Francisco, 1962), p. xvii
23. Karl Marx, "The So-Called Primitive Accumulation," Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling, ed. Frederick Engels, 3 vols. (New York, 1967), 1:755-56
24. Goethe, Italian Journey, 1786-1788, p. 82
25. Richard Sennet, Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization (New York, 1994), p. 223
26. See ibid., and Jan Morris, The Venetian Empire: A Sea Voyage (New York, 1980), p. 148
27. See Julian A. Pitt- Rivers, The People of the Sierra, 2d ed. (Chicago, 1971), pp.xvi-xvü
28. See Bertolt Brecht, "Five Theatre Poems," Bertolt Brecht Poems: 1913-1956, ed. John Willett, Ralph Manheim, and Erich Fried (London, 1976), pp. 340-43
29. Marx, Capital, 1:176
30. See Michael Taussig, The Nervous System (New York, 1992), esp. the introduction
31. See Benjamin, The Origin of German Tragic Drama, trans. John Osborne (London, 1977), p. 31
32. See Benjamin, "On The Mimetic Faculty," Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobio-graphical Writings, trans. Edmund Jephcott, ed. Peter Demetz (New York, 1978), p. 335
33. Benjamin, "Doctrine of the Similar," trans. Knut Tarnowski, New German Critique 17 (Spring 1979): 66
34. Franz Kafka, "The Hunter Gracchus," Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories, ed. Nahum N. Glatzer (New York, 1971), p. 228. See Derek Sayer, The Coasts of Bohemia: A Czech History (Princeton, N.J., 1998)
35. Kafka, "The Hunter Gracchus," p. 229
36. See Georges Bataille, "The Notion of Expenditure," Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939, trans. Allan Stoekl, Carl R. Lovitt, and Donald M. Leslie, Jr., ed. Stoekl (Minneapolis, 1985), pp. 116-29
37. See Mann, "Death in Venice" (1912), "Death in Venice" and Other Stories, trans. David Luke (New York, 1988); hereafter abbreviated "DV."
38. See Bataille, The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, trans. Robert Hurley, 3 vols. in 2 (New York, 1988), 1:28
39. See Elias Canetti, "Secrecy," Crowds and Power, trans. Carol Stewart (London, 1962), pp. 290-96
40. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York, 1974), pp. 247-48
41. Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, trans. Carol Diethe, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 61, 70
42. Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath, ed. Ted Hughes and Frances McCullough (New York, 1982), p. 182