Out of melancholia: Notes on Judith Butler’s the psychic life of power: Theories in subjection

Rethinking Marxism

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 7-17

  Macherey, Pierre ^a  

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Author keywords

Ideology; Judith butler; Power

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EID: 33748665130     PISSN: 08935696     EISSN: 14758059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0893569042000193371     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. [Throughout this text, Macherey exploits the term conscience, whereas in English two terms are required: “conscience” and “consciousness.” In German, one speaks of Gewissen and Bewusstsein, respectively-tr.].
2. Louis Althusser, Positions (Paris: Éditions Sociales, 1976), pp. 110 ff. [In English, see “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation),” in Lenin and Philosophy, and Other Essays, trans. Ben Brewster (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1971), pp. 174 ff.-tr.].
3. [The English translation of Foucault’s Surveiller et punir-Discipline and Punish, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: Random House, 1979)-translates assujetissement as “subjection,” whereas Butler at times uses “subjectivation,” as on page 11. Here, “subjection” is used-tr.].
4. [This fragment, numbered 414 in Brunschvig’s edition, appears only in the preface to the first edition of Folie et déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique (Paris: Librairie Plon, 1961).
5. A new preface was written for the 1972 edition of the text. The heavily abridged English translation, published in 1965, is based on the first edition. See Madness and Civilization, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Random House, 1965), p. ix. Howard’s translation of the fragment from Pascal differs slightly from mine-tr.].
6. Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausée (Paris: Gallimard, 1938), p. 136.
7. [In English: Nausea, trans. Lloyd Alexander (New York: New Directions, 1964), p. 102. Translation modified-tr.].
8. [The expression “affectuum vires” appears in the Scholium to proposition 56 of part 3 of the Ethics-tr.].
9. Cf. the edition of the text proposed by J. Pigeaud with the title L’homme de génie et la mélancolie (Paris: Rivages, 1991).
10. Cf. La Psychanalyse, vol. 1, 1956, where Lacan’s translation of Heidegger’s text “Logos” was also published. [Jean Hyppolite’s text, “Commentaire Parlé sur la Verneinung de Freud,” is printed as an appendix to Jacques Lacan, Écrits (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1966), pp. 879-87.
11. Lacan’s response, “Réponse au commentaire de Jean Hyppolite sur la ‘Verneinung’ de Freud,” is published in the same volume, pp. 381-99.
12. English translations of these texts are found in Jacques Lacan, The Seminar. Book 1, Freud’s Papers on Technique, 1953-1954, ed. JacquesAlain Miller, trans. John Forrester (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988)-tr.].
13. [See The Psychic Life of Power, p. 23: “The formula ‘I have never loved’ someone of similar gender and ‘I have never lost’ any such person predicates the ‘I’ on the ‘never-never’ of that love and loss”-tr.].
14. [In Raymond’s Queneau’s novel Loin de Rueil (Paris: Gallimard, 1944), Louis-Philippe des Cigales (“Loufifi”) is diagnosed with “an ontalgia [une ontalgie],” characterized as “an existential sickness… that resembles asthma, only more distinguished” (15, my translation)- tr.].