The Impossible-to-write and the Unreadable

On the Relationships between Literature and the Lacanian Real
By Deborah Gutermann-Jacquet
English

In his Seminar The Sinthome, Lacan, with Joyce, uses literature and the figure of the writer to demonstrate that the style of a piece of writing may deal with the real. How does stylistic research allow the writer to subvert the impossible to say and write? Every era produces a specific, even symptomatic literature. Hence, what is the nature of the illegible that transforms literature into lituraterre?

Keywords

  • literature
  • real
  • impossible
  • inexpressible
  • nomination
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