Poétique de la rupture spectrale

Revue Romane ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-130
Author(s):  
R.-L. Etienne Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sylvie Germain ◽  
Pierre Michon ◽  
Verbal Discourse ◽  
Traditional Communities ◽  
Jean Rouaud ◽  
Gérard Macé ◽  
Pierre Bergounioux

Sociologists and historians of genealogical filiations invoke modernity as the dissolution of traditional communities that formerly, albeit oft tacitly, bound descendants to ancestors. So as to invent oneself spontaneously and without restraint, the modern figure breaks with the strictures of the past, forging a path toward liberation. This newly-minted “emancipation” gives way to a sense of discomfortable culpability among contemporary “scribes.” In quest of remedy, they fashion a space, at once disturbing yet inviting to the ghosts and spectres of primogenitors, a space that both supports and distorts the words of heir(s). In such an optic, Sylvie Germain (1954) and Jean Rouaud (1952), Gérard Macé (1946), Pierre Michon (1945) and Pierre Bergounioux (1949) are powerfully haunted writers. As beneficiaries/successors, their gestures recall past lives and their words replicate their parents’ inflections and manner of verbal discourse. They are, as such, dispossessed of a familial past that represents little but ruin and grief, yet possessed by those absent beings who intrude obsessively on their consciousness and speech. They are heirs torn apart by a melancholy that extends to the grave of their “predecessors.” Contemporary literature vies with this spectral theme to analyze the ambivalence occasioned by such haunting refrains: artistic victims, orphans and parricidal vestiges of a family past, significantly impacted by the unconscious and linguistic upheavals that accompany such compelling loss.

scholarly journals Les possédés et les dépossédés

2010 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurent Demanze
Keyword(s):  
De Se ◽  
Sylvie Germain ◽  
Pierre Michon ◽  
Jean Rouaud ◽  
Gérard Macé ◽  
Pierre Bergounioux

Résumé Sociologues et historiens de la famille décrivent la modernité comme la perte des communautés traditionnelles qui soudaient l’un à l’autre l’héritier et ses ancêtres. Pour s’inventer librement, l’individu moderne rompt les entraves du passé, mais cette libération est aussi vécue chez les écrivains contemporains avec culpabilité. Afin d’y remédier, ils font une place à la fois inquiétante et fondatrice aux spectres et aux revenants de la généalogie, qui étayent et disloquent la parole de l’héritier. C’est ainsi que Sylvie Germain et Jean Rouaud, Gérard Macé, Pierre Michon et Pierre Bergounioux sont des écrivains hantés. Ce sont autant d’héritiers dont les gestes reconduisent des vies antérieures, et dont les mots sont comme magnétisés par les parlures ou les inflexions des parents. Ces héritiers sont donc en quelque sorte à la fois dépossédés d’un passé familial qui n’est pour eux que ruines et deuil et possédés par ces êtres absents qui obsèdent leur conscience et parasitent leur parole. L’héritier est alors déchiré par la mélancolie, au point de se faire tombeau de ses ascendants. À travers la thématique spectrale, la littérature contemporaine analyse toute la situation ambivalente de l’individu contemporain, à la fois orphelin et parricide d’un passé familial, et les secousses inconscientes et linguistiques de cette perte.

scholarly journals Un nouveau régionalisme ?

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-77
Author(s):  
Francis Langevin
Keyword(s):  
Pierre Michon ◽  
Jean Echenoz ◽  
Jean Rouaud ◽  
Pierre Bergounioux

Sébastien Chabot (L’angoisse des poulets sans plumes et Le chant des mouches), Éric Dupont (La logeuse) et Christine Eddie (Les carnets de Douglas) campent une partie de l’action de leurs romans dans un Québec imaginé, dans des villages périphériques aux noms fictifs (Sainte-Souffrance, Notre-Dame-du-Cachalot et Rivière-aux-Oies). Cette « régionalité » est comparée, dans cet article, à l’étiquette attribuée entre autres aux écrivains français Richard Millet, Pierre Michon et Pierre Bergounioux. L’auteur montre que les enjeux de la représentation des régions, dans les productions québécoises abordées ici, se distinguent des enjeux de la « provincialité » souvent évoquée par la critique pour regrouper certaines productions romanesques contemporaines françaises. Si la question identitaire sociale et mémorielle (collective et individuelle) est un enjeu majeur des romans de Millet, Michon et Bergounioux, caractérisés aussi par leur registre sérieux qui en fait des « fictions critiques » (Viart), les Chabot, Dupont et Eddie font plutôt la part belle aux registres parodique (Dupont), carnavalesque (Chabot), ou encore à une tonalité « sentimentale » (Eddie), ce qui place ces romans québécois plutôt du côté de l’inventivité romanesque, en quoi ils s’apparentent davantage aux « fictions joueuses » (Blanckeman) des Jean Echenoz, Jean Rouaud, Jacques Roubaud, Antoine Volodine, etc.

Acta Fluens – Generatives Handeln und Improvisation im Jazz

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60
Author(s):  
Davide Sparti
Keyword(s):  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
History Of Philosophy ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

Obwohl jede menschliche Handlung mit einem gewissen Grad an Improvisation erfolgt, gibt es kulturelle Praktiken, bei denen Improvisation eine überwiegende Rolle spielt. Um das Risiko zu vermeiden, einen zu breiten Begriff von Improvisation zu übernehmen, konzentriere ich mich im vorliegenden Beitrag auf den Jazz. Meine zentrale Frage lautet, wie Improvisation verstanden werden muss. Mein Vorgehen ist folgendes: Ich beginne mit einem Vergleich von Improvisation und Komposition, damit die Spezifizität der Improvisation erklärt werden kann. Danach wende ich mich dem Thema der Originalität als Merkmal der Improvisation zu. Zum Schluss führe ich den Begriff affordance ein, um die kollektive und zirkuläre Logik eines Solos zu analysieren. Paradigmatisch wird der Jazzmusiker mit dem Engel der Geschichte verglichen, der nur auf das Vergangene blickt, während er der Zukunft den Rücken zugekehrt hat, und lediglich ihr zugetrieben wird. Weder kann der Improvisierende das Material der Vergangenheit vernachlässigen noch seine genuine Tätigkeit, das Improvisieren in der Gegenwart und für die Zukunft, aufgeben: Er visiert die Zukunft trotz ihrer Unvorhersehbarkeit über die Vermittlung der Vergangenheit an.<br><br>While improvised behavior is so much a part of human existence as to be one of its fundamental realities, in order to avoid the risk of defining the act of improvising too broadly, my focus here will be upon one of the activities most explicitly centered around improvisation – that is, upon jazz. My contribution, as Wittgenstein would say, has a »grammatical« design to it: it proposes to clarify the significance of the term »improvisation.« The task of clarifying the cases in which one may legitimately speak of improvisation consists first of all in reflecting upon the conditions that make the practice possible. This does not consist of calling forth mysterious, esoteric processes that take place in the unconscious, or in the minds of musicians, but rather in paying attention to the criteria that are satisfied when one ascribes to an act the concept of improvisation. In the second part of my contribution, I reflect upon the logic that governs the construction of an improvised performance. As I argue, in playing upon that which has already emerged in the music, in discovering the future as they go on (as a consequence of what they do), jazz players call to mind the angel in the famous painting by Klee that Walter Benjamin analyzed in his Theses on the History of Philosophy: while pulled towards the future, its eyes are turned back towards the past.

CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIME. IS SUBJECTIVE TIME OBJECTIVE?

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-188
Author(s):  
G.S. Prygin
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Psychological Aspect ◽  
Subjective Time ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Time Consciousness ◽  
The Past ◽  
Equilibrium Processes ◽  
Time Quantum ◽  
Temporal Modes

We study the problems of time consciousness from the standpoint of philosophy, physics and psychology; it is argued that such a sequence in the analysis of the problem allows us to reveal the actual psychological aspect of the problem of the objectivity of the consciousness of time, which is the goal of the study. Both the philosophical concepts of the time consciousness of I. Kant, E. Husserl and F. Brentano, and the physical theories of the study of time (quantum physics, cosmology, the physics of non-equilibrium processes) are analyzed. It has been established that in philosophical theories, the concepts: consciousness, memory, perception, representation, and others do not have clear definitions and can change their meaning depending on the context. It is emphasized that in physical and human sciences time is investigated, as a rule, in connection with the concept of “space”. It is shown that when analyzing the problem of the consciousness of time, one should first decide on the concept of “reality”, which allows us to remove contradictions in the understanding of time in various physical theories. It is concluded that the existence of both objective and subjective time can only be spoken when we operate with concepts; outside of this the concept of “time” has meaning only when a person is considered as part of society. It is shown that in relation to the collective and personal unconscious, the temporal modes of the "past", "present" and "future" do not make sense, since "the whole diversity of everything" is represented in the unconscious field simultaneously and extra-spatially.

Traditional and Customary Law: Adat

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Butt ◽  
Tim Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
Judicial Review ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Small Proportion ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
The State ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
The Past ◽  
Statutory Protection ◽  
Traditional Communities

Many Indonesians—primarily those living in rural areas—still follow customary law (adat). The precise rules and processes of that adat differ significantly from place to place, even within short distances. This chapter shows that for many decades, adat has been subservient to national law. State-made law overrode it, leaving it applicable only in a very small proportion of cases where no national law applied, where judges could apply it as ‘living law’. Even in these cases, many judges ignored adat or distorted it when deciding cases. The 1945 Constitution was amended in 2000 to require the state to formally recognize and respect customary law, as practised in traditional communities. The Constitutional Court has given effect to this in various judicial review cases, as have some statutes enacted in the past decade or so. However, this constitutional and statutory ‘protection’ has been impeded in practice by requirements for traditional communities to be formally ‘recognized’ by their local governments, many of whom have been unresponsive to calls for recognition.

scholarly journals Issues in Latin America. Sociocultural contrasts and their representations in contemporary literature

Diacronia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sorina-Crina Ghiață
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Religious Perspective ◽  
The Past ◽  
Introductory Part ◽  
Overseas Territories

Starting with the independence process of all the territories once colonies and later, overseas territories of the different states of Western Europe, Latin America meant an association of unique paradoxes. Portugal and Spain have dominated in the past, especially from a linguistic and religious perspective,the current space that became avaried cultural environment. In this context, the aim of this study is to capture, in the introductory part, characteristics of the Latin American complex identity(reflected, for example, in the names associated with this space of civilization, in political circumstances and social issues, in particular). In addition, another purpose is to highlight the way in which these aspects are considered in the prose of modern Latin American writers, Rodrigo Rey Rosa and Héctor Abad Faciolince. At the same time,emphasizing the scourge of discrimination or inequality, but especially the perpetual violence, thestudyconcludes with a reference (also found in the literary discourse of the two texts chosen for analysis, Los sordos and El olvido que seremos) to the ethical spirit, but also to the feeling of empathy—subjects approached by both writers—in a world that seems more and more fragmented and depersonalized, as if it has been occupied by a continuous stigma of imbalance.

scholarly journals MOVING AWAY FROM TRADITION: PORTRAYAL OF MODERN WEREWOLVES AND VAMPIRES IN THE TWILIGHT SAGA

1970 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nassima Kaid
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Fantasy Fiction ◽  
The Past ◽  
Actual Environment ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
Twilight Saga ◽  
Psychosexual Dysfunction

Many writers have shown their preoccupation with and interest in the representation of the fantastic body over the past centuries. The figure of the vampire, werewolves, and zombies keep coming back in those works although today’s monsters are humanized. In Contemporary Young Adult fantasy, readers are presented with characters that usually adapt to the real world. The fantastic body does no more refer to psychosexual dysfunction but generates mainly from socioeconomic and cultural malaise (Badley, 17-18). In other words, the fantastic becomes a virtual reality that symbolizes the changing ‘self’ within the postmodern era though contemporary literature has transcended the actual environment as it copes with technological advancement. Unlike other fantasy fiction, Meyer has focused on traditional fantastic creatures originating in folklores and myths; they are an integral part of the fantastic as they cross lines between natural and supernatural elements. The present paper aims at addressing the representation of body transformations into vampires and werewolves in Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga. It will evaluate body metamorphosis into vampires and werewolves discovering new dimensions of one’s own identity and personality. It will further demonstrate how Meyer has succeeded in creating her own monsters without untying some of the mythical substratum.

scholarly journals Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Treatment Overview and Empirical Basis

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Abbass ◽  
Joel M. Town ◽  
Ellen Driessen
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Dynamic Psychotherapy ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Character Structure ◽  
Mcgill University ◽  
Research Findings

Based on over forty years of videotaped case-based research, Habib Davanloo of McGill University, Canada, discovered some of the core ingredients that can enable direct and rapid access to the unconscious in resistant3 patients, patients with func-tional disorders, and patients with fragile character structure. We will describe here some of the main research findings that culminated in his description of a central therapeutic process involved in the intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) model. We will also describe the evolution of the technique over the past thirty years and summarize the empirical base for Davanloo’s ISTDP.

scholarly journals Methodology for the Regulation of Over-the-top (OTT) Services: The Need of A Multi-dimensional Perspective

2018 ◽  
pp. 101-110
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
New Economy ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Market Model ◽  
Cooperative Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Regulatory Approach ◽  
Over The Top

Over the past decade, the contemporary literature has addressed the emerging factors influencing the new economy of over-the-internet and over-thetop (OTT). The growth of the OTT market conveyed the need for the discussion on the best possible and most appropriate regulatory approach that should be undertaken. This study emphasizes the importance of a multi-dimensional outlook for OTT regulation in order to uncover different types of OTT services. This outlook includes the diverse forms of relationship between new and current influential factors (i.e., market model, business impact, infrastructure requirements) and area of regulation. This paper describes a balanced regulatory framework based on a cooperative approach that is more effective for OTTs. Similarly, the OTT regulation has not been included in the regulatory agenda in Turkey due to low penetration rates and cooperative approach between OTT service providers and telco companies. As a result, this work proposes a multi-dimensional methodology for this emerging new area that requires regulation.

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