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I have been asked to explain French postmodernism more than twice, and read Lacan aloud and in French in front of wannabe Chinese psychoanalysts, understanding
by gbog 14y ago
I have been asked to explain French postmodernism more than twice, and read Lacan aloud and in French in front of wannabe Chinese psychoanalysts, understanding this is out of reach even for native speakers. I mean, each sentence has 5+ possible interpretation, and floats like a cloud of smoke. What you read in English can only be one interpretation among many.
Artaud, however, is very straightforward, a kid would understand: it is mostly naked scatologic poetry.
- steveklabnik 14y ago> read Lacan aloud and in French in front of wannabe Chinese psychoanalysts, That sounds pretty damn unfortunate. > Artaud, however I haven't read Artaud directly, but I just wanted to mention that while D&G take the imagery of the BwO from Artaud, it's pretty much just those words: they fully develop in into its own concept (as well as the very-nearly-identical 'plane of immanence') over a few books, so it's much more Lacan (though Anti-Oedipus is a polemic against psychoanalysis, sooo) than scatologic poetry. Though they did digress into some of that silliness sometimes.
- gbog 14y agoRight, but scatology do not have to be silly. Aristophanes, Rabelais, and I'm sure many more didn't fear taking about shit, pee and so on.