Toward a post-foucauldian history of discursive practices

Configurations

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 211-225

  Miller, Paul Alien ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1353/con.1999.0019     Document Type: Article

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3. Michel Foucault, Les mots et les choses (Paris: Gallimard, 1966), pp. 77, 88-89, 103, 171, 179. Compare idem. L'archéologie du savoir (Paris: Gallimard, 1969), pp. 166-173.
4. Fredric Jameson, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1981), pp. 57-58 (emphasis his).
5. See Joan Copjec, Read My Desire: Lacan against the Historicists (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994), p. 47, concerning Bergson's critique of Aristotelian teleology on the ground that it destroyed time.
6. Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson, Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990), p. 47.
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13. In this struggle, he saw Lacan as one of his principal allies. See Louis Althusser, "Letters to D," in idem, Writings on Psychoanalysis: Freud and Lacan, éd. Olivier Corpet and François Matheron, Irans. Jeffrey Mehlman (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), pp. 59-60.
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36. On the Freudian basis for the distinction between reality and the Real, see Jacques Lacan, "De nos antécédents," in Écrits I (Paris: Seuil, 1966), p. 83.
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38. Ernst Bloch, "Nonsynchronism and thé Obligation to Its Dialectics," Ne\v German Critique U (1977): 22.
39. At the limit, complete separation from the Symbolic order, and hence from what Freud termed the reality principle, is the psychoanalytic definition of psychosis. See Slavoj Zizek, Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan throuqh Popular Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1991), p. 40.
40. Jacques Lacan, Le séminaire livre XX: Encore, ed. Jacques-Alain Miller (Paris: Seuil, 1975), p. 50; Zizek, Looking Awry, pp. 29-32.
41. The example he gives is the practice of seppiiku: Lacan, Séminaire XX, p. 60.
42. Gillian Beer, "Wave Theory and the Rise of Literary Modernism," in Realism anil Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature, and Culture, ed. George Levine (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), pp. 193-213. In the same volume see also George Levine, "Looking for the Real: Epistemology in Sei-ence and Culture," pp. 4-6;
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44. and Ludimilla Jordanova, "Museums: Representing the Real?" pp. 275-276.
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46. Lacan, Séminaire XX (above, n. 27), p. 183.
47. Fredric Jameson, "Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan," in idem, Tlie Idéologies ofTlieory, vol. 1 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), pp. 104, 108. The New Physics has, of course, shown the limitations of Newton's "universal" laws.
48. Lacan, Séminaire XX, p. 45;
49. Ragland-Sullivan, Lacan (above, n. 22), p. 108;
50. Zizek, Looking Awry (above, n. 26), p. 120;
51. Parkhurst, "Adorno" (above, n. 15), p. 52.
52. On Althusser's relationship with Lacan, see Jeffrey Mehlman's preface to Althusser, Writings on Psychoanalysis (above, n. 9), pp. vii-ix; and Jameson, Political Unconscious (above, n. 4), pp. 34-35. On Althusser's relation to Foucault, see David Macey, Tlie Lives of Michel Foucault (New York: Pantheon, 1993), pp. 25, 196-197, 200, 202-203.
53. Frow, Marxism (above, n. 7), p. 24 (emphasis his).
54. Zizek, Sublime Object (above, n. 18), p. 170.
55. Ragland-Sullivan, Lacan (above, n. 22), p. 190;
56. Jameson, "Imaginary and Symbolic" (above, n. 32), p. 104;
57. Zizek, Sublime Object, p. 132. To the extent that Kant's "Ding" is considered as existing in a shadow world of the noumenal that duplicates the phenomenal in a fashion analogous to Plato's forms, rather than as a limit internal to the experience of knowledge itself, then it remains vulnerable to Hegel's criticism, which both Lacan and Jameson would accept. See Zizek, Sublime Object, pp. 172, 177, 204205, 214;
58. Copjec, Read My Desire (above, n. 5), p. 35. On the relation between Freud's das Ding, the Kantian Ding an sich, and Lacan's concept of the Real, see Zizek, Tarrying with the Negative (above, n. 8), p. 90.
59. Zizek, Sublime Object, pp. 208-209;
60. Jameson, "Imaginary and Symbolic," p. 107.
61. Jacques Lacan, Le séminaire XI: Les quatre concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse, éd. Jacques-Alain Miller (Paris: Seuil, 1973), p. 103;
62. Jameson, Political Unconscious (above, n. 4), p. 102;
63. Stuart Schneiderman, Jacques Lacan: The Death of an Intellectual Hero (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983), p. 132;
64. Ragland-Sullivan, Lacan (above, n. 22), p. 189;
65. Parkhurst, "Adorno" (above, n. 15), p. 45.
66. Julien, Lire Jacques Lacan (above, n. 30), p. 143;
67. Jameson, "Imaginary and Symbolic" (above, n. 32), p. 106.
68. Zizek, Sublime Object (above, n. 18), p. 21;
69. Julien, Lire Jacques Lacan, p. 173.
70. Lacan developed a theory of "knots" to explain the mutual interdependence and inseparability of his three primary categories, the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real. See Mitchell and Rose's explanation in "Lacan Seminar of 21 January 1975," Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école freudienne, ed. Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose, trans. Jacqueline Rose (New York: Pantheon, 1982), p. 171-n. 6.
71. Copjec, Read My Desire (above, n. 5), pp. 176-177 (emphasis hers).
72. Jameson, Political Unconscious (above, n. 4), p. 82.
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75. Elisabeth Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan, trans. Barbara Bray (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), p. 216.
76. Copjec, Read My Desire (above, n. 5), pp. 9, 21.
77. Lacan, Séminaire XX (above, n. 27), pp. 32-33.
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99. Bannet, Structuralism (above, n. 57), p. 157;
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104. Ibid., pp. 9-10, 60.
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107. Zizek, Sublime Object (above, n. 18), p. 135.
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112. Jameson, Political Unconscious (above, n. 4), p. 153.
113. Irigaray, Ce sexe (above, n. 67), pp. 92, 99, 205;
114. Elizabeth Weed, "The Question of Style," in Engaging with Irigaray, ed. Carolyne Burke, Naomi Schor, and Margaret Whitford (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), pp. 87, 99, 100-102.
115. William C. Dowling, /ameson, Altlmsser, Marx: An Introduction to the Political Unconscious (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984), p. 127.
116. Lacan, Séminaire XI (above, n. 39), 278;
117. Ragland-Sullivan, Lacan (above, n. 22), p. 174.
118. Frovv, Marxism (above, n. 7), pp. 110, 114.
119. Eagleton, Criticism and Ideology (above, n. 14), p. 56;
120. Jameson Political Unconscious (above, n. 4), p. 148;
121. Zizek, Looking Awry (above, n. 26), p. 48;
122. Moxey, "Semiotics" (above, n. 14), pp. 987-988.
123. Todorov, Bakhtin, (above, n. 14), p. 80;
124. Morson and Emerson, Bakhtin, (above, n. 6), p. 277; Ralph Cohen, "Reply to Dominick La Capra and Richard Harvey Brown," A'eiv Literary History 17 (1986): 229-230.
125. Cohen, "History and Genre" (above, n. 7), pp. 213, 216.
126. See, for example, J. Hillis Miller, "The Ethics of Reading: Vast Gaps and Parting Hours," in American Criticism in the Poststnicturalist Age, éd. Ira Königsberg (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1981), pp. 19-41.