The Theory of Absence
Subjectivity, Signification, and Desire
Published on 30. October 1995
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-313-29588-1 (ISBN)
Description
Fuery explores the relationship between post-structuralism and absence. In order to understand the psychoanalytic theory of Lacan (and Freud), the deconstructionalist methodology of Derrida, Foucault's studies of systems of thought, and Kristeva's socio-cultural and psychoanalytic interests, Fuery believes it is necessary to take into consideration the function and operation of absence. He shows how post-structuralist theory can be seen as a system of studies of subjectivity in terms of absence, and how desire is based almost entirely on the precondition of absence. The study is divided into sections on subjectivity. desire, and meaning, with the final section working toward a hermeneutics and semiotics of absence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Interest Age: From 7 to 17 years
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
448 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-29588-1 (9780313295881)
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PATRICK FUERY is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Media at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Theories of Desire (1994) and the editor of Representation, Discourse and Desire (1994).
Content
Acknowledgments
Preface
Negativity, Negation, and Dialectics: Towards a Semantic Model of the Dialectics of Absence
The Subject of Desire and Absence
The True Aim of Desire: Subjectivity, Desire, and Absence
Desire, Pleasure, and the Subject of Absence
"That Perilous Necessity": Towards a Metaphysics of Subjectivity and Absence
Desire and the Voice: Speaking Absences and the Absence of Speech
Absence and the Gaze
The Source of Tears and the Body's Bitter Light: Absence and the Scopic Drive
Heterology of the Gaze and the System of Eclipse
Towards a Semiotics of Absence
On the Structure of the Sign and Absence
Love and the Symphysis of Absence: Processes of Absence in the Formation and Operation of Codes
Toward a Typology of the Absent Signifier
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Negativity, Negation, and Dialectics: Towards a Semantic Model of the Dialectics of Absence
The Subject of Desire and Absence
The True Aim of Desire: Subjectivity, Desire, and Absence
Desire, Pleasure, and the Subject of Absence
"That Perilous Necessity": Towards a Metaphysics of Subjectivity and Absence
Desire and the Voice: Speaking Absences and the Absence of Speech
Absence and the Gaze
The Source of Tears and the Body's Bitter Light: Absence and the Scopic Drive
Heterology of the Gaze and the System of Eclipse
Towards a Semiotics of Absence
On the Structure of the Sign and Absence
Love and the Symphysis of Absence: Processes of Absence in the Formation and Operation of Codes
Toward a Typology of the Absent Signifier
Bibliography
Index