Structuralism and the Logic of Dissent: Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan

310 Pages·1989·32.889 MB·English

by  Eve Tavor Bannet (auth.)

STRUCTURALISM AND THE LOGIC OF DISSENT
By the same author and published by Macmillan
SCEPTICISM, SOCIETY AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY
NOVEL
Structuralism and the
Logic of Dissent
Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan
Eve Tavor Bannet
Associate Professor of English
University of South Carolina
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Bannet, Eve Tavor
Structuralism and the logic of dissent:
Barthes, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan.
1. Structuralism
I. Title
149'.96 B841.4
ISBN 978-0-333-46948-4 ISBN 978-1-349-19744-6 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-19744-6
To Jacob Bannet, who made this book possible
Contents
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations x
Introduction: The Voice of Someone 1
1 Lacan and the Alienation of Language 12
The vel of alienation 12
The beyond in this life 23
Repetition and innovation 30
The intellectual and the other 42
2 Barthes and the Pleasures of Alienation 49
The duplicities of critical play 50
'The intellectual writer that I am' 70
Mythologies of otherness 83
3 Foucault and the Archeology of Alienation 94
Instruments for a history of the present 97
Alienation, social exclusion and mental integration 112
The divided subject and the death of man 144
The specific, positive intellectual 170
4 Derrida and the Wholly Other 184
Reconstructing the text 186
Deconstruction: Game, Rule, Repetition, Writing 202
Conclusion: Recontextualisations 228
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viii Contents
Notes and References 266
Bibliography 280
Index 287
Acknowledgements
I am profoundly indebted to the old Lycee FranfQiS de Londres
under the late M. Gaudin, both for its draconian discipline and
for enabling each of its pupils to become different.
I would like to thank Jerome Mandel and Meir Sternberg at
Tel-Aviv University, for arranging for me to have the leave I
needed, and Dorothea Krook-Gilead and the late Wylie Sypher
for reading and commenting on portions of this manuscript.
Special thanks are also due to Frances Arnold at the publishers for
her wonderful tact, understanding and timely encouragement,
and to Julie Coyne, Jane Gostling and the staff of the Brompton
Library in London, who went well beyond the call of duty in
locating and procuring books for me.
I would like to thank the editors of Orbis Litterarum for
permission to reprint my article, 'Critical Play: a Reading of
Roland Barthes'.
This book could not have been written without the constant
help and support of my husband, Jacob Bannet, who lived with it
from its inception with better than good grace, or without my two
lively small sons, Jonathan and Alan, who helped by puncturing
abstraction, making me laugh and allowing me to sleep - at least
most nights.
EVE TAVOR BANNET
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Abbreviations
LAC AN
Ec. I Ecrits, Vol. I
Ec. II Ecrits, Vol. II
Sem. I Le Seminaire: Livre I, Les ecrits techniques de Freud
Sem. II Le Seminaire: Livre II, Le moi dans la theorie de Freud et
dans la technique de la psychanalyse
Sem. III Le Seminaire: Livre III, Les psychoses
Sem. XI Le Seminaire: Livre XI, Les quatres concepts fondamentaux
de la psychanalyse
Sem. XX Le Seminaire: Livre XX, Encore
Tel. Television
BARTHES
BR A Barthes Reader (ed. Susan Sontag)
cv Critique et Verite
DZ Le Degre Zero de 1' Ecriture
EC I Essais Critiques
EC IV Essais Critiques IV: Le bruissement de la langue
ES L'Empire des Signes
Frag. Fragments d'un discours amoureux
GV Le Grain de Ia Voix: Entretiens 1962-80
ITM Image-Text-Music, essays selected and translated by
Stephen Heath
M Mythologies
Mich Michelet
MT Myth Today (in A Barthes Reader-BR)
NEC Nouveaux Essais Critiques
PT Le Plaisir du Texte
R Sur Racine
RB Roland Barthes par Roland Barthes
SFL Sade, Fourier, Loyola
Soli. Sollers Ecrivain
X