Béance

New Centennial Review

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 37-56

  Kamuf, Peggy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 60950119966     PISSN: 1532687X     EISSN: 15396630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ncr.2002.0050     Document Type: Review

References (6)

1. Jean Mathieu-Rosay, Dictionnaire etymologique (Paris: Marabout, 1985).
2. Roland Barthes even identifies this bâillement or béance as a body's most erotic place: "Is not the most erotic portion of a body where the garment gapes [là où le vêtement bâille]?" (The Pleasure of the Text, trans. Richard Miller [New York: Hill and Wang, 1975], 9).
3. J.-L. Nancy, The Inoperative Community, ed. Peter Connor, trans. Peter Connor et al. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991).
4. The idiomatic, untranslatable phrase "à même" is a constant trait of what above was called Nancy's suspensive writing. See my "À même Jean-Luc Nancy," Paragraph 16, no. 2 (1993).
5. Jacques Derrida, Le Toucher: Jean-Luc Nancy (Paris: Galilée, 2000), 305; my translation.
6. Jean-Luc Nancy, Ego sum (Paris: Aubier-Flammarion, 1979), 161; my translation.