Chantal Akerman: La jouissance de la déperdition et le rythme de la contingence
Chantal Akerman: the Jouissance of the Loss and the Rhythm of Contingency

Summary/Abstract: This paper reads Chantal’s Akerman œuvre with regards to contingency and loss, in a psychoanalytic Lacanian perspective. Womanhood in anxiety and jouissance, the time of the singular and the subject’s identity entwined with the Other and with the contingency of the real are thus correlated with Akerman’s production, particularly Jeanne Dielman and her written journal. The short essay also opens the path of articulating the singular and the unary trait in the Lacanian sense in Akerman’s cinematic style. The protagonists are drawn within a repetition that cannot be mastered or directed but pertains to an impossible encounter on “the other stage”, whose rhythm out of meaning affects the meaningful dailiness of life.

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