By Marjorie Garber
ISBN-10: 0823242072
ISBN-13: 9780823242078
ISBN-10: 0823242080
ISBN-13: 9780823242085
"In Loaded phrases the inimitable literary and cultural critic Marjorie Garber invitations readers to affix her in a rigorous and exuberant exploration of language. What hyperlinks the items incorporated during this bright new assortment is the author's rivalry that each one phrases are inescapably loaded-that is, hugely charged, explosive, massive, intoxicating, fruitful, and overbrimming-and that such loading is what makes language Read more...
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The passionate and impassioned debate between Foucault and Derrida turned, to a certain extent, on which was the ‘‘outside’’ of the other. Was madness to be subsumed under the category of history, or of philosophy? For Derrida, dreams and doubt were key philosophical positions. Foucault retorted scathingly, ‘‘How could a philosophy which places itself under the sign of origin and repetition think the singularity ................. ’’6 This was before the 24/7 news cycle and the global media conflated origin, repetition, and event in an endless loop.
Language, for Lacan, is clearly a double agent. 3 The radical nature of Freud’s insights in the Interpretation of Dreams was not fully appreciated immediately, Lacan says, because that book was written ‘‘before the formalization of linguistics for which . . ’’4 But this ‘‘radical revolution’’ produced by ‘‘the procedures of exegesis’’ is now felt in every aspect of life. ’’5 The direction of this list is indicative: it is the move from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. We might note, too, that Derrida’s Freudian reading of Foucault’s idea of madness is directly cognate to this discussion of language as a double agent.
For Derrida, dreams and doubt were key philosophical positions. Foucault retorted scathingly, ‘‘How could a philosophy which places itself under the sign of origin and repetition think the singularity ................. ’’6 This was before the 24/7 news cycle and the global media conflated origin, repetition, and event in an endless loop. But it was not before the notion of the antithetical within: By that logic, by that reasoning, to think singularity was itself already double-think. ). But one example that Freud did not offer in his list of antithetical words—although it is intrinsic to his argument about dreams and dream logic—was the word that, conspicuous by its absence in his writings, nonetheless demarcates the very concept with which his work was, for a long lifetime, engaged.