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NUOBODULYS IR PRIEVARTA: ANTONIONI „FOTOPADIDINIMO“ ATVEJIS

Author(s): Nerijus Milerius / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 92/2017

The article examines cinematic violence, and deals with one of the most distinctive examples of metacinema, namely, Blow up by Michelangelo Antonioni. Firstly, Blow up covers not only the the key issues of history of photography but also those of ontology. Therefore, in the article, it is returned not only to one of the pioneers of photography, William H. F. Talbot, but also to key ideas of Plato. Secondly, interpreting the notions of Roland Barthes, philosophical aspects of fashion photography are explored. Thirdly, the controversy of John Berger and Don McCullin over the issue of photography of war or agony is discussed. The article reveals Antonioni’s strategy to capture violence not directly but as a symptom or opportunity to overcome the monotony of everyday life predominant in modern society. It is argued that such access allows Antonioni to avoid the hypostasis of the status of violence, which is typical for various prophetic artistic manifests.

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Polemika su metafiziniu adresatu šiuolaikinėje lietuvių eseistikoje

Author(s): Dalia Čiočytė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 1/2017

This article investigates the notion of the metaphysical and its influence on the narrator’s consciousness in contemporary Lithuanian essays. The theoretical perspective combines the theology of literature with Mikhail Bakhtin’s concept of the hidden polemic. The polemic of the narrator with the metaphysical addressee is being analyzed in three representative texts of the contemporary essay: Offering by Sigitas Parulskis (2002), The Allure of the Text by Giedra Radvilavičiūtė (2010) and Farewell to Things by Alfonsas Andriuškevičius (2015). These literary works present an artistic deautomatization of the main existential questions. The literary thought seen in the Offering is an ontological one, as it explains the metaphysical logic of human existence. The literary thought observed in The Allure of the Text and Farewell to Things is a gnoseological quest for the answers to the main questions of human existence.

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Post-tyrimas ugdymo moksluose: ontologinės ir epistemologinės įžvalgos

Author(s): Justina Garbauskaitė-Jakimovska / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 41/2018

In the academic community, it is becoming more outspoken that the traditional tools for perceiving the world have become not sufficient. The existing research methods used by social scientists are not flexible enough – they are unnecessarily simplifying the world and the processes that are happening in it. In order to address this issue, scientists started to question the procedures that are followed in order to explain the everyday processes, activities of organizations and individuals, but would not reduce them to something that can be known by observing or surveying a few informants or a few hundred of respondents. Rebecca Coleman and Jessica Ringrose, in an introduction to a book edited by them that is titled Deleuze and Research Methodologies, note the “need for methodologies capable of attending to the social and cultural world as mobile, messy, creative, changing and open ended, sensory and affective” (Ringrose, Coleman 2013, 1). This article is aiming to expand the scientific discourse on the topic of post-research methodology in Lithuania. The objectives of the article are the following: 1) To describe the main philosophical ideas and theories that are connected to post qualitative research methodology; 2) To relate the theories and empirical research practice; 3) To describe new concepts: rhizo-analysis, schizo-analysis; 4) To highlight the tensions that are appearing in conducting post qualitative research. The main aspects that the article is focused on are the changing attitude toward data, the importance of philosophy, language, research procedures and the presentation of results. This article is based on an analysis of literature. Analyzed are the works of research methodology experts Elisabeth St. Pierre, Lisa Mazzei, Jessica Ringrose and those others who follow the ideas of the poststructuralists Deleuze and Guattari and take the initiative in bringing new perspectives on research in educational sciences.

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BALSAS, GARSAS IR TRIUKŠMA S: (EKO)ESTETINIO UGDYMO TEORIJOS IR EKSPERIMENTAI

Author(s): Lilija Duoblienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: Suppl./2018

Together with images, sound also has tremendous impact on the perception of the world, and studies devoted to sound in education are still comparably scarce. For that reason, in this paper we attempt to understand why and how does the voice, sound, and especially noise become an object, instrument and an environment of education. The ideas proposed by critical pedagogy began to be applied in practice toward voice discourse analysis a few decades ago. Meanwhile the concepts and ideas of postmodern and posthumanist philosophy and their followers in the educational philosophy are neither simple nor easily applicable to sound and to noise as unpleasant sound. Nevertheless, new projects of sound in educational practice are being tested and implemented, in many cases still in connection with the approach of critical pedagogy to voice discourse. Despite different epistemological and ontological views on education in critical pedagogy and postmodernism, and although their link lacks justification and seems doubtful, the experiments presented in the article are innovative, rather successful and useful for the development of (eco)aesthetical education.

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Abejoti dėl laiko. Belaikiškumas vėlyvojoje Paulio Celano kūryboje

Author(s): Inga Bartkuvienė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 4/2019

The poetry of Paul Celan has a reflected intention to ask about the temporal determination of human being and simultaneously questions the term and definition of time. In may of his works he reflects he the catastrophic transformation, the reflection also includes the revision of the conventional conception of time. He tries to show, that beside the usual forms of historical, causal und linear time, individuals also perceive timelessness. Paradoxically, the accomplishment of a historical event (Holocaust) evokes a consciousness of the historical caesura, and thus of the untold and the inhospitable. In his perception, for the poet, writing (after holocaust) means writing after apocalyptic break, where history does not exist, in other words surrounded by the timelessness. The task of preserving the memory of what happened in poetry goes hand in hand with the awareness of a disorder and often borders on the impossibility of verbalizing what has happened or even being able to express itself verbally. The experience of disconnection from the temporal sequence of events (through trauma) coincides with the moments of speechlessness, emptiness in consciousness, verbal utterance, and time experience overlap. This tendency is radicalized especially in his late work. In this article late works of Paul Celan, that deal with the questions of timelessness and manifestations of it are analysed (“Zeitlücke”, “Die Trombonestelle” “Largo” and others).

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Out of the Closet, into the World: The Power of Puppets in Jessie Burton’s The Miniaturist

Author(s): Rūta Šlapkauskaitė / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2019

The present paper examines the tropological significance of miniature figures in Jessie Burton’s novel The Miniaturist. By highlighting the ways in which the narrative’s figural system negotiates the structural and conceptual dichotomies of human/doll, object/thing, interiority/exteriority, authenticity/artificiality, and mobility/stasis, this reading of Burton’s novel attempts to show how the literary text rethinks the social life of things and the ambiguity of subject-object relations in the seventeenth-century Netherlands. Aligned with the commercial circuits of material culture, which underscore the moral ambivalence of the novel’s Dutch society, material objects are shown to exceed their decorative function and reveal their destructive purchase on human life.

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Perspectives on Photographic Vision with Early Heidegger: Enactment, Ontology, Practice, and Theory

Author(s): Filip Gurjanov / Language(s): English Issue: 03+04/2020

Although Heidegger mentioned photography in Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, his image theory developed in that book has not yet been considered in the light of photography’s intrinsic connection with the photographic act, which I wish to put special emphasis on in this paper. Using Heidegger’s interpretation of Kant, I will first examine photographic seeing from an ontological point of view. Then, mirroring a tension in Heidegger’s early focus between a transcendental approach and the primacy of practice thesis as suggested by William Blattner, and following on from William J. Nieberding’s use of certain passages from Being and Time as applied to photography, I will further investigate the primordial practical context in which photographic vision emerges, which will help consider photographic vision as resulting from a specific shift of attitude. However, as William McNeill explains, Heidegger’s idea of a change-over (Umschlag) in seeing from initial practical sight to that of theory includes an autonomous source of the origination of theoretical vision. Thus, if photographic vision is to be considered genuinely theoretical, this compels us to explore the ‘inner source’ of seeing photographically, which I will argue depends on photographers’ understanding of camera vision.

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Immanuelis Kantas ir politikos tikrumo klausimas

Author(s): Alvydas Jokūbaitis / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 100/2021

Researchers of Kant’s political philosophy have not paid enough attention to the problem of certainty in politics which is inseparable from the distinction between phenomenon and noumenon. The primacy of practical reason means that morality has a higher value than knowledge. This is a fundamental presupposition of Kant’s philosophy. However, this emphasis on the importance of morality leads to the problematic question of certainty in politics. The recognition of the primacy of morality seems to lead to a situation where politics loses the certainty that belongs to the sphere of noumenon. Such a situation seems to lead to an impossible situation when the distinction between phenomenon and noumenon reappears in the theory of practical reason. The paper puts forward a thesis that for Kant morality is the only ground that allows speaking about the certainty of politics. However, his understanding of certainty in politics has its drawbacks. Politics is dependent not only on the ontology of morality that was emphasized by Kant, but it is also dependent on the kind of certainty that one finds in the sphere of interpersonal relationships. Kant did not pay enough attention to this aspect which remains outside the sphere of the universal law of morality.

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From Habermas to Derrida: A Weak Form of Secular Universalism

Author(s): Giorgi Tskhadaia / Language(s): English Issue: 100/2021

In this article, I argue that a universalistic thrust of secularism should not be located in a Habermasian deontological liberal principle of the priority of universal morality over particularistic ethical doctrines. I show that Habermas cannot plausibly demonstrate that this principle can be invariably applied across different cases. However, in order not to succumb to parochialism, the failure of the deontological model should not prompt us to give up on the search for a universalistic drive behind secularism. To this end, I advocate a Derridean critique of religion and secularism as an alternative solution. By deconstructing the Kantian dichotomy of faith vs. knowledge, Jacques Derrida shows that secularism is, paradoxically, both a concrete socio-political regime and a possibility for a radical change.

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On Reason and the Power of Life (Tolstoy contra Spinoza)

Author(s): Svetlana Klimova / Language(s): English Issue: 100/2021

In his search for the meaning of life, Tolstoy turned to Spinoza’s rationalist teaching about freedom, reason, morality, and religious faith. Spinoza created a philosophy where beliefs are in union with deeds, logic unites with ethics, and knowledge joins faith. According to Tolstoy, it is art that makes a synthesis of all the best attempts of the real, true philosophy. I argue that Tolstoy’s artistic method of linkage (stseplenie) was probably borrowed from Spinoza. Inspired by Spinoza’s “theorems of reason,” Tolstoy created his own “axiom of life” and elaborates on the concept of the “power of life” as a core of religious faith. Tolstoy endorsed Spinoza’s rationalistic critique of religion which helped to liberate true faith from the power of superstition and church dogmatics, but he criticised the geometric form in which Spinoza put the truths he discovered.

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Deleuze’o ir Guattari jutimo logika šiuolaikinio meno kontekste

Author(s): Sigita Dackevičiūtė / Language(s): Lithuanian Issue: 100/2021

Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of art (the logic of sensation) has been interpreted in the context of the opposition between modernism and contemporary art, and then it is either attributed only to modernism, which gives priority to the aesthetic dimension of art, or it is argued that we must see its potential to create “new connections.” These opposing views are expressed by Stephen Zepke and Simon O’Sullivan. However, Deleuze and Guattari’s artistic sensation is not a sensory perception, it is the main concept of their logic of sensation, encompassing both the sensory and the conceptual-virtual dimensions. In the article, I seek to demonstrate that Deleuze and Guattari’s artistic sensation, encompassing both of these dimensions, relates to the general context of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy and resonates with the aesthetic and semantic dimensions of contemporary art projects. Discussing Thomas Feuerstein’s installation Prometheus Delivered I demonstrate in what ways the notion of the logic of sensation expands the field of the interpretation of this work of art.

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Batı Düşüncesinde Doğu İmgesi: Jonas Hassen Khemiri’nin İstila! Oyunu

Author(s): Duygu Kankaytsın / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 107/2021

In this study, I approached the play Invasion! by Jonas Hassen Khemiri in the framework of orientalism. Edward Said regards orientalism as a way of thinking that depends on an epistemological and ontological distinction between the East and the West. In the orientalist view, the West must first define and introduce the East in order to define itself. The West establishes a hegemonical structure over the East. The West and the East are constructed as imagined places rather than real ones. With a historical perspective that challenges the irrevocable myth of the East, he disrupts the fixated Eastern character by renouncing first the Abulkasem in One Thousand and One Nights and then the Abulkasem in the play Signora Luna by Carl Jonas Love Almquist, a prominent poet and playwright from Sweden. The myth of Abulkasem takes a new shape after Khemiri. He parodies the Abulkasem that is unchangeable from the perspective of the West by turning everyone and everything into Abulkasem or by ‘Abulkasemizing’ them. The play, set in Sweden, underscores that not every Middle Eastern immigrant living in Sweden is the same Abulkasem. While Invasion! unveils the characteristics associated with the East through orientalist racism and perception; it does not comment on how the West defines the East as the other only. It also reveals how the East perceives and comprehends itself from the perspective of the West. In that regard, I first delved into the concept of orientalism and then opened for discussion the argument that otherness is two-sided in the play in question.

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Yapay Zekâ Düalizminde Özbilinçlilik Halinin Varlığı ve Yıkımı Üzerine

Author(s): Mehmet Ali Sevimli,Meral Serarslan / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 12/2021

The effort to understand and explain human nature is one of the oldest intellectual activities of humanity. Modern science has made significant progress in explaining human nature at the point it came. But the paradox that has emerged among scientists for centuries on “the nature of the mind and consciousness” is remarkable. Few things about human existence are as mysterious as mind and consciousness. Philosophy of mind, one of the important areas of contemporary philosophy, is a philosophical discipline that tries to solve this mystery by focusing on the metaphysics and ontological status of the mind. The last point on which the Mind - Body Problem, which has begun to be discussed in a concrete way with the concept of ‘töz dualism’, in which Renê Descartes advocates the separation between mind and body, and is still the subject of debate by contemporary philosophers, is the “artificial intelligence problem”. The most important question here is, Can an artificial mind equivalent to a human mind be produced? Those who answer this question are divided into “weak artificial intelligence” and “strong artificial intelligence” in the context of philosophy of mind. One of the most important dead ends of the front advocating strong artificial intelligence is the ‘state of self-consciousness’, which means confirming the subject’s confidence in himself. This issue is also frequently discussed in motion pictures. In this study, the in 1982 film Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, was examined. The main goal of the study is to determine which of the views of “weak artificial intelligence” or “strong artificial intelligence” the use of artificial intelligence in the film correspond. This, in turn, was done by taking into account the issue of “self-knowledge”. As a result of research designed using the descriptive analysis method, it was found that the use of “artificial intelligence” in the film Blade Runner corresponds to the theory of “strong artificial intelligence”.

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Yaşamın ve Ölümün Büyüsü: Terrence Malick’in Tarih Temalı Sinema Filmlerinde Doğa-İnsan-Savaş İlişkisi

Author(s): Sinan Vardar / Language(s): Turkish Issue: Sp. Iss./2021

The lines of life which are to discover again and again till the death which has ritualistic faces convert to an effective narration in Terrence Malick’s cinematography. All the narrations in Malick’s movies about historical include and examine relations between human and nature and own and other. These historical-themed narratives, which are put forward on the axis of concepts such as “love”, “magic”, “death”, “war”, “loss”, “eternity”, contain discussions reinforced with the language of cinema based on the self, which can be shown among the problematic issues based on humanity. These narratives on the reconstruction of the self in the face of the other encountered, and thus the questioning of cultural determinism are among the basic dynamics of the history-themed movies of Malick. In our study, we will examine and argue the topics such like issue of selfdom, constructing of selfdom, cultural determinism, relations between man and nature through Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998) and The New World (2005) movies. Throughout the investigations to we carry out, we will evaluate the philosophy of history, the problem of the self, the establishment of the self, cultural determinism, the relationship between nature and human, based on related philosophical approaches.

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Ontolojik Yaklaşımda Mahallenin Fragmanına Sultan Filmi Üzerinden Bakmak

Author(s): Arzu Yılmaz Aslantürk / Language(s): Turkish Issue: Sp. Iss./2021

The Sultan movie made in 1978, which is discussed in this study, offers a sociologically versatile perspective to the crisis of urban modernity and the resistance of its inhabitants with its story that tells the daily life taken by the neighborhood’s pulse in all its reality. In addition to benefit from the discipline of sociology in the analysis of the film, philosophy has been applied to think ontologically on the lives created in the film. The reason for this is that social thought is at the root of the philosophical systems of philosophers and that these thoughts that develop cumulatively form the background of sociology. Therefore, the sociological pathway of the fragment of the neighborhood is questioned by various philosophical views. The relationship between space and society, which forms the fragment of the neighborhood, takes on an ontological structure by feeding into daily life. Thus, human relations, love, affection, and sadness, which constitute ascribed areas of daily life, form the philosophical basis of the slum in the ontological sense. Space is an important element in the theme of Yavuz Turgul films, who can’t remain insensitive to social problems. The main purpose of the study is to analyze the struggle of the slum from the urban rent in the perception of space produced by capitalism, the meaning of the existence of the individual in the chain connected with the neighborhood which is through their sadness, love, joy and struggles to earn a living in the flow of daily life. The theoretical framework that Henry Lefebvre put forward regarding the production of space will be discussed with an ontological approach. Daily life, arabesque, advertising, and neighborhood culture as the urban manifestation of collective consumption are the focus of the study. Also, spatial unity, masculine domination, emotional attachments, and joint interests of the neighborhood’s spaces will be evaluated through the characters represented by the neighborhood.

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Bazı İslami Dergiler Örnekleminde Carl Gustav Jung: Nitel Bir Araştırma

Author(s): Beyazıt Yaşar Seyhan / Language(s): Turkish Issue: 14/2021

Even during the first establishment of the Republic (with the expression of Balaban), "the science of spirituality (=psychology) that talks about the spiritual existence of man" has always been interesting by the writers of that period. Especially since the 1940s, in some scientific, moral, religious and literary journals published in Turkey, the views of Western psychologists such as Carl Gustav Jung, who are famous in the psychology of religion, were explained. In this research, it has been tried to analyze how C. G. Jung and his views are handled in these journals. The journals discussed in the research are as follows: "Sebilürreşad", "Muslim Voice", "Tawhid", "New Ground", "Orbit", "Academy", "Young", "Cultural World", "Monthly" and "Kur'ani Hayat”. In our research, the approach to Jung and his views in these examined journals was investigated and some results were obtained. Accordingly, Jung has a positive phenomenon accepted by the Islamic community, as some Islamic journals acknowledge that Jung is different from their peers”. All Islamic journals used Jung. Although some criticize Jung to strengthen their own claims by pointing to Jung's authority, he used Jung to "guide his target audience" because he considered it closer to Islamic understanding than his Western counterparts. Islamic journals never used Jung's concepts of "persona", "anima-animus" and "self" in their articles. But they gave a lot of place to Jung's concepts such as "religion", "God", "archetype" and "collective unconscious". Especially since they see the concept of “collective unconscious” as an Islamic value, they have embraced it more. Islamic journals acknowledge Jung as the "authority". While this "authority" is the "strengthener" of its own claims based on some Islamic journals, it is a "model" for some Islamic journals whose aspects should be taken in accordance with their worldview. It is clear that Islamic journals do not have a scientific style and purpose when using Jung. It was concluded that Islamic journals approached Jung's concepts in the form of "ethnocentric" and "circular reasoning". It has emerged that Islamic journals that act with the logic of "Take what works and leave what does not work" and those who defend Islamic psychology are similar to the logic of "take the positive side of the West that fits the Islamic perspective" to Jung and his views.

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Dark Matter. An Ecopsychological Approach to the Ontology of Plant Expression in Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation and Richard Linklater’s a Scanner Darkly

Author(s): David M. J. Carruthers / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

Taking up Michael Marder’s “object of psychoanalysis, wherein we might detect a vegetal approach to the psyche,” and Timothy Morton’s dark ecology, which traces the twisted loops of agrilogistics, this article proposes an ecopsychological approach to the expression of plant soul as the very constitution of human subjectivity. Examining Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, which demonstrates the pretty blue Mors ontologica’s insidious plant agency to cleave the somatic human spirit, and Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation, wherein cinematic plant-thinking demands temporal distortions that render the human uncanny, this article positions the plant as the primary mover, the animating force and manifestation of human desire and its expression.

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Šarčević, Abdulah 1929 - 2021

Author(s): Not Specified Author / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 33-34/2021

IN MEMORIAM: Šarčević, Abdulah 1929 - 2021. Šarčević, Abdulah, jedno od najznačajnijih filozofskih imena na prostoru bivše Jugoslavije, predavač ontologije, epistemologije, estetike, filozofijeznanosti i povijesti filozofije, profesor emeritus na Filozofskom fakultetu uSarajevu i Prima Community College u Tucsonu (Arizona, USA), redovničlan Akademije nauka i umjetnosti BiH, osnivač Centra za filozofska istraživanja, utemeljitelj i urednik čuvene filozofske biblioteke Logos, autor brojnihdjela, pri čemu valja neizostavno naglasiti osmotomni opus Odabranih spisa,koja čine, kako veli filozof i profesor Sulejman Bosto, svojevrsnu "ustrajnuapologiju humanističke kulture, filozofiju nade u ljudskost uprkos epohalnojkrizi čovječanstva", zahvatajući ključne "probleme povijesti filozofije, spori/ili dijalog moderne i postmoderne, ontologije, fenomenologije, filozofskeantropologije, hermeneutike, filozofije jezika, etike, estetike, sociologije kulture..." I

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“The Naked Person” and “The Unbearable World”: Variations of Exodus (Based on Early Prose by A. I. Solzhenitsyn)

Author(s): Natalia Kovtun,Natalya Klimovich / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2021

This paper analyses the motif of “the naked person” in Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s early work. Epic tales which belong to the so called “labour camp prose”, such as One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1959) and The Cancer Ward (1968), stand out in the context of this motif. Moreover, the “unbearable world” and the “naked person” have been structurally significant for the “labour camp prose” since Fyodor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov. All of them imply that these elements bring the reader closer to understanding the ontology of a person who is forbidden to wear a cross on his chest and thus seek protection from God and cultural myths. The paper examines historical developments of the “naked person” imagery in Russian literature from the seventeenth century to the Avantgarde and postmodernism by analysing relations between reality and the “unbearable world” (the space of labour camps) in which nakedness and misery are deemed to be charisma, gifts from God. The Cancer Ward is still one of Solzhenitsyn’s most widely read works in Europe and America. Unlike the peasants in the story, Kostoglotov, an intellectual, reflects on the value of freedom, prospects of choice and the nature of evil – something which Ivan Denisovich touches upon only vaguely. The author is interested in mechanisms of self-identity in horrendous living conditions. Solzhenitsyn’s The Cancer Ward is a variation of the classic “non-finito” narrative. The protagonist, who has endured hardship and overcome limits of the “unbearable world”, moves towards the house ark as his life is just beginning. In fact, by employing terrible history, a labour camp and the hospital ward of the doomed, Solzhenitsyn’s text explores the driving forces behind a person’s self-identity, the most important of which are moral elevation, will, mercy and belief in life.

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Analiza Fragmenta: književnost, histerija, biseksualnost

Author(s): Mirela Dakić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1-2/2021

The essay starts with Freud’s Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria, relating its discordant lines of argumentation with the psychoanalytic concept of (bi)sexuality, as it was developed from Studies on Hysteria to Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, the latter of which was published in same year as the “Dora case”. We consider the aspects in which Freud’s contradictory analysis of the case becomes central to the feminist debate on hysteria in Hélène Cixous’s and Catherine Clément’s classic The Newly Born Woman. The analysis points to the constitutive relation of the authors’ disagreement on hysteria and different conceptions of literature and politics presented in their study and the subsequent polemical discussions. We further approach the dissent about the political and methodological framework of feminist criticism in the Anglo-American reception of the French authors, wherein gynocritics Elaine Showalter and Sandra M. Gilbert renounce the question of hysteria. Alternatively, deconstructive critical reading by Peggy Kamuf is grounded in Derrida’s approach to literature. Kamuf traces the main misunderstandings in Cixous’s reception, by interpreting her oeuvre as emblematic of so-called semi-theory and semi-politics, trying to deconstruct oppositions between a theoretical, political, and poetical text. Through the lens of semi-theory, the relation between Cixous’s semi-concept of a woman, as a reference without a referent, and the psychoanalytic understanding of bisexuality and hysteria, has far-reaching consequences on the reading of psychoanalytic text as literary and hysterical, as it compulsively repeats the very fragmentary pattern it tries to interpret.

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