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The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father.?When I was born, my father was already no longer there.? Sibylle Lacan's memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his presence. Sibylle was the second daughter and unhappy last child of Lacan's first marriage: the fruit of despair (?some will say of desire, but I do not believe them?). Lacan abandoned his old family for a new one: a new partner, Sylvia Bataille (the wife of Georges Bataille), and another daughter, born a few months after Sibylle. For years, this daughter, Judith, was the only publicly recognized child of Lacan?even if, due to French law, she lacked his name. In one sense, then, A Father presents the voice of one who, while bearing his name, had been erased. If Jacques Lacan had described the word as a ?presence made of absence,? Sibylle Lacan here turns to the language of the memoir as a means of piecing together the presence of a man who had entered her life in absence, and in his passing, finished in it. In its interplay of absence, naming, and the despair engendered by both, A Father ultimately poses an essential question: what is a father? This first-person account offers both a riposte and a complement to the concept (and the name) of the father as Lacan had defined him in his work, and raises difficult issues about the influence biography can have on theory?and vice versa?and the sometimes yawning divide that can open up between theory and the lives we lead.

The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father.?When I was born, my father was already no longer there.? Sibylle Lacan's memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his presence. Sibylle was the second daughter and unhappy last child of Lacan's first marriage: the fruit of despair (?some will say of desire, but I do not believe them?). Lacan abandoned his old family for a new one: a new partner, Sylvia Bataille (the wife of Georges Bataille), and another daughter, born a few months after Sibylle. For years, this daughter, Judith, was the only publicly recognized child of Lacan?even if, due to French law, she lacked his name. In one sense, then, A Father presents the voice of one who, while bearing his name, had been erased. If Jacques Lacan had described the word as a ?presence made of absence,? Sibylle Lacan here turns to the language of the memoir as a means of piecing together the presence of a man who had entered her life in absence, and in his passing, finished in it. In its interplay of absence, naming, and the despair engendered by both, A Father ultimately poses an essential question: what is a father? This first-person account offers both a riposte and a complement to the concept (and the name) of the father as Lacan had defined him in his work, and raises difficult issues about the influence biography can have on theory?and vice versa?and the sometimes yawning divide that can open up between theory and the lives we lead.

The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father.?When I was born, my father was already no longer there.? Sibylle Lacan's memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his presence. Sibylle was the second daughter and unhappy last child of Lacan's first marriage: the fruit of despair (?some will say of desire, but I do not believe them?). Lacan abandoned his old family for a new one: a new partner, Sylvia Bataille (the wife of Georges Bataille), and another daughter, born a few months after Sibylle. For years, this daughter, Judith, was the only publicly recognized child of Lacan?even if, due to French law, she lacked his name. In one sense, then, A Father presents the voice of one who, while bearing his name, had been erased. If Jacques Lacan had described the word as a ?presence made of absence,? Sibylle Lacan here turns to the language of the memoir as a means of piecing together the presence of a man who had entered her life in absence, and in his passing, finished in it. In its interplay of absence, naming, and the despair engendered by both, A Father ultimately poses an essential question: what is a father? This first-person account offers both a riposte and a complement to the concept (and the name) of the father as Lacan had defined him in his work, and raises difficult issues about the influence biography can have on theory?and vice versa?and the sometimes yawning divide that can open up between theory and the lives we lead.

The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father.?When I was born, my father was already no longer there.? Sibylle Lacan's memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his presence. Sibylle was the second daughter and unhappy last child of Lacan's first marriage: the fruit of despair (?some will say of desire, but I do not believe them?). Lacan abandoned his old family for a new one: a new partner, Sylvia Bataille (the wife of Georges Bataille), and another daughter, born a few months after Sibylle. For years, this daughter, Judith, was the only publicly recognized child of Lacan?even if, due to French law, she lacked his name. In one sense, then, A Father presents the voice of one who, while bearing his name, had been erased. If Jacques Lacan had described the word as a ?presence made of absence,? Sibylle Lacan here turns to the language of the memoir as a means of piecing together the presence of a man who had entered her life in absence, and in his passing, finished in it. In its interplay of absence, naming, and the despair engendered by both, A Father ultimately poses an essential question: what is a father? This first-person account offers both a riposte and a complement to the concept (and the name) of the father as Lacan had defined him in his work, and raises difficult issues about the influence biography can have on theory?and vice versa?and the sometimes yawning divide that can open up between theory and the lives we lead.

The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father.?When I was born, my father was already no longer there.? Sibylle Lacan's memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his presence. Sibylle was the second daughter and unhappy last child of Lacan's first marriage: the fruit of despair (?some will say of desire, but I do not believe them?). Lacan abandoned his old family for a new one: a new partner, Sylvia Bataille (the wife of Georges Bataille), and another daughter, born a few months after Sibylle. For years, this daughter, Judith, was the only publicly recognized child of Lacan?even if, due to French law, she lacked his name. In one sense, then, A Father presents the voice of one who, while bearing his name, had been erased. If Jacques Lacan had described the word as a ?presence made of absence,? Sibylle Lacan here turns to the language of the memoir as a means of piecing together the presence of a man who had entered her life in absence, and in his passing, finished in it. In its interplay of absence, naming, and the despair engendered by both, A Father ultimately poses an essential question: what is a father? This first-person account offers both a riposte and a complement to the concept (and the name) of the father as Lacan had defined him in his work, and raises difficult issues about the influence biography can have on theory?and vice versa?and the sometimes yawning divide that can open up between theory and the lives we lead.

The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father.?When I was born, my father was already no longer there.? Sibylle Lacan's memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his presence. Sibylle was the second daughter and unhappy last child of Lacan's first marriage: the fruit of despair (?some will say of desire, but I do not believe them?). Lacan abandoned his old family for a new one: a new partner, Sylvia Bataille (the wife of Georges Bataille), and another daughter, born a few months after Sibylle. For years, this daughter, Judith, was the only publicly recognized child of Lacan?even if, due to French law, she lacked his name. In one sense, then, A Father presents the voice of one who, while bearing his name, had been erased. If Jacques Lacan had described the word as a ?presence made of absence,? Sibylle Lacan here turns to the language of the memoir as a means of piecing together the presence of a man who had entered her life in absence, and in his passing, finished in it. In its interplay of absence, naming, and the despair engendered by both, A Father ultimately poses an essential question: what is a father? This first-person account offers both a riposte and a complement to the concept (and the name) of the father as Lacan had defined him in his work, and raises difficult issues about the influence biography can have on theory?and vice versa?and the sometimes yawning divide that can open up between theory and the lives we lead.

The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father.?When I was born, my father was already no longer there.? Sibylle Lacan's memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his presence. Sibylle was the second daughter and unhappy last child of Lacan's first marriage: the fruit of despair (?some will say of desire, but I do not believe them?). Lacan abandoned his old family for a new one: a new partner, Sylvia Bataille (the wife of Georges Bataille), and another daughter, born a few months after Sibylle. For years, this daughter, Judith, was the only publicly recognized child of Lacan?even if, due to French law, she lacked his name. In one sense, then, A Father presents the voice of one who, while bearing his name, had been erased. If Jacques Lacan had described the word as a ?presence made of absence,? Sibylle Lacan here turns to the language of the memoir as a means of piecing together the presence of a man who had entered her life in absence, and in his passing, finished in it. In its interplay of absence, naming, and the despair engendered by both, A Father ultimately poses an essential question: what is a father? This first-person account offers both a riposte and a complement to the concept (and the name) of the father as Lacan had defined him in his work, and raises difficult issues about the influence biography can have on theory?and vice versa?and the sometimes yawning divide that can open up between theory and the lives we lead.

The daughter of French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan tries to make sense of her relationship with her father.?When I was born, my father was already no longer there.? Sibylle Lacan's memoir of her father, the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, is told through fragmentary, elliptical episodes, and describes a figure who had defined himself to her as much by his absence as by his presence. Sibylle was the second daughter and unhappy last child of Lacan's first marriage: the fruit of despair (?some will say of desire, but I do not believe them?). Lacan abandoned his old family for a new one: a new partner, Sylvia Bataille (the wife of Georges Bataille), and another daughter, born a few months after Sibylle. For years, this daughter, Judith, was the only publicly recognized child of Lacan?even if, due to French law, she lacked his name. In one sense, then, A Father presents the voice of one who, while bearing his name, had been erased. If Jacques Lacan had described the word as a ?presence made of absence,? Sibylle Lacan here turns to the language of the memoir as a means of piecing together the presence of a man who had entered her life in absence, and in his passing, finished in it. In its interplay of absence, naming, and the despair engendered by both, A Father ultimately poses an essential question: what is a father? This first-person account offers both a riposte and a complement to the concept (and the name) of the father as Lacan had defined him in his work, and raises difficult issues about the influence biography can have on theory?and vice versa?and the sometimes yawning divide that can open up between theory and the lives we lead.

This dissertation examines the symbolic role the fashion system played in the process of modernization of nineteenth-century Russian society, and in the articulation of that process in literary texts of the period. Because of its infinite potential for the creation of new and ambiguous meanings, as well as its formal similarity with literature, which requires constant innovation in order to sustain marketability, writing about fashion offered a rich context for debates about the nature of aesthetics, society, and modernity.Each chapter focuses on a unique moment in the cultivation of fashion, taste, and consumer habits in the latter half of the nineteenth century, beginning with Nikolai Nekrasov and Ivan Panaev’s commodification of literature in their journalistic and literary texts of the 1840s, through Ivan Goncharov’s narratives of self-fashioning and Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s examination of commerce and ideology mid-century, to Leo Tolstoy’s commodification of the female subject in Anna Karenina during the 1870s, and its subsequent echoes in our contemporary cinematic experience of the novel. Rather than focusing on fashion per se, this dissertation instead examines fashion culture, which involves new social roles, new forms of communication, and ultimately new values and attitudes. My project thus considers the implications of fashion not only for the development of the Russian literary sphere in the nineteenth century, but also for our contemporary cultural processes.

This dissertation examines the symbolic role the fashion system played in the process of modernization of nineteenth-century Russian society, and in the articulation of that process in literary texts of the period. Because of its infinite potential for the creation of new and ambiguous meanings, as well as its formal similarity with literature, which requires constant innovation in order to sustain marketability, writing about fashion offered a rich context for debates about the nature of aesthetics, society, and modernity.Each chapter focuses on a unique moment in the cultivation of fashion, taste, and consumer habits in the latter half of the nineteenth century, beginning with Nikolai Nekrasov and Ivan Panaev’s commodification of literature in their journalistic and literary texts of the 1840s, through Ivan Goncharov’s narratives of self-fashioning and Nikolai Chernyshevsky’s examination of commerce and ideology mid-century, to Leo Tolstoy’s commodification of the female subject in Anna Karenina during the 1870s, and its subsequent echoes in our contemporary cinematic experience of the novel. Rather than focusing on fashion per se, this dissertation instead examines fashion culture, which involves new social roles, new forms of communication, and ultimately new values and attitudes. My project thus considers the implications of fashion not only for the development of the Russian literary sphere in the nineteenth century, but also for our contemporary cultural processes.

La primera edición en español se publicó en 1971. Incluía una selección de los trabajos del autor. La edición completa siguiendo el orden de la edición francesa de los Escritos data de 1984. En las distintas etapas intervinieron como revisores el propio autor, Juan David Nasio y Armando Suárez. Es preciso haber leído esta compilación, y a todo lo largo, para sentir que allí se prosigue un solo debate, siempre el mismo, y que, aunque pareciera quedar así fechado, se reconoce por ser el debate de las luces. Y es que hay un dominio en que la aurora misma tarda: el que va de un prejuicio, del que no acaba de desembarazarse la psicopatología, a la falsa evidencia de la que el yo reclama un título para ostentar la existencia. Lo oscuro pasa allí por objeto y florece con el oscurantismo que encuentra allí mismo sus valores. Nada tiene, pues, de sorprendente que sea allí mismo donde se resista al descubrimiento de Freud, término que se prolonga aquí con una anfibología: el descubrimiento de Freud por Jacques Lacan.

La primera edición en español se publicó en 1971. Incluía una selección de los trabajos del autor. La edición completa siguiendo el orden de la edición francesa de los Escritos data de 1984. En las distintas etapas intervinieron como revisores el propio autor, Juan David Nasio y Armando Suárez. Es preciso haber leído esta compilación, y a todo lo largo, para sentir que allí se prosigue un solo debate, siempre el mismo, y que, aunque pareciera quedar así fechado, se reconoce por ser el debate de las luces. Y es que hay un dominio en que la aurora misma tarda: el que va de un prejuicio, del que no acaba de desembarazarse la psicopatología, a la falsa evidencia de la que el yo reclama un título para ostentar la existencia. Lo oscuro pasa allí por objeto y florece con el oscurantismo que encuentra allí mismo sus valores. Nada tiene, pues, de sorprendente que sea allí mismo donde se resista al descubrimiento de Freud, término que se prolonga aquí con una anfibología: el descubrimiento de Freud por Jacques Lacan.

La primera edición en español se publicó en 1971. Incluía una selección de los trabajos del autor. La edición completa siguiendo el orden de la edición francesa de los Escritos data de 1984. En las distintas etapas intervinieron como revisores el propio autor, Juan David Nasio y Armando Suárez. Es preciso haber leído esta compilación, y a todo lo largo, para sentir que allí se prosigue un solo debate, siempre el mismo, y que, aunque pareciera quedar así fechado, se reconoce por ser el debate de las luces. Y es que hay un dominio en que la aurora misma tarda: el que va de un prejuicio, del que no acaba de desembarazarse la psicopatología, a la falsa evidencia de la que el yo reclama un título para ostentar la existencia. Lo oscuro pasa allí por objeto y florece con el oscurantismo que encuentra allí mismo sus valores. Nada tiene, pues, de sorprendente que sea allí mismo donde se resista al descubrimiento de Freud, término que se prolonga aquí con una anfibología: el descubrimiento de Freud por Jacques Lacan.

La primera edición en español se publicó en 1971. Incluía una selección de los trabajos del autor. La edición completa siguiendo el orden de la edición francesa de los Escritos data de 1984. En las distintas etapas intervinieron como revisores el propio autor, Juan David Nasio y Armando Suárez. Es preciso haber leído esta compilación, y a todo lo largo, para sentir que allí se prosigue un solo debate, siempre el mismo, y que, aunque pareciera quedar así fechado, se reconoce por ser el debate de las luces. Y es que hay un dominio en que la aurora misma tarda: el que va de un prejuicio, del que no acaba de desembarazarse la psicopatología, a la falsa evidencia de la que el yo reclama un título para ostentar la existencia. Lo oscuro pasa allí por objeto y florece con el oscurantismo que encuentra allí mismo sus valores. Nada tiene, pues, de sorprendente que sea allí mismo donde se resista al descubrimiento de Freud, término que se prolonga aquí con una anfibología: el descubrimiento de Freud por Jacques Lacan.

La primera edición en español se publicó en 1971. Incluía una selección de los trabajos del autor. La edición completa siguiendo el orden de la edición francesa de los Escritos data de 1984. En las distintas etapas intervinieron como revisores el propio autor, Juan David Nasio y Armando Suárez. Es preciso haber leído esta compilación, y a todo lo largo, para sentir que allí se prosigue un solo debate, siempre el mismo, y que, aunque pareciera quedar así fechado, se reconoce por ser el debate de las luces. Y es que hay un dominio en que la aurora misma tarda: el que va de un prejuicio, del que no acaba de desembarazarse la psicopatología, a la falsa evidencia de la que el yo reclama un título para ostentar la existencia. Lo oscuro pasa allí por objeto y florece con el oscurantismo que encuentra allí mismo sus valores. Nada tiene, pues, de sorprendente que sea allí mismo donde se resista al descubrimiento de Freud, término que se prolonga aquí con una anfibología: el descubrimiento de Freud por Jacques Lacan.

La primera edición en español se publicó en 1971. Incluía una selección de los trabajos del autor. La edición completa siguiendo el orden de la edición francesa de los Escritos data de 1984. En las distintas etapas intervinieron como revisores el propio autor, Juan David Nasio y Armando Suárez. Es preciso haber leído esta compilación, y a todo lo largo, para sentir que allí se prosigue un solo debate, siempre el mismo, y que, aunque pareciera quedar así fechado, se reconoce por ser el debate de las luces. Y es que hay un dominio en que la aurora misma tarda: el que va de un prejuicio, del que no acaba de desembarazarse la psicopatología, a la falsa evidencia de la que el yo reclama un título para ostentar la existencia. Lo oscuro pasa allí por objeto y florece con el oscurantismo que encuentra allí mismo sus valores. Nada tiene, pues, de sorprendente que sea allí mismo donde se resista al descubrimiento de Freud, término que se prolonga aquí con una anfibología: el descubrimiento de Freud por Jacques Lacan.

La primera edición en español se publicó en 1971. Incluía una selección de los trabajos del autor. La edición completa siguiendo el orden de la edición francesa de los Escritos data de 1984. En las distintas etapas intervinieron como revisores el propio autor, Juan David Nasio y Armando Suárez. Es preciso haber leído esta compilación, y a todo lo largo, para sentir que allí se prosigue un solo debate, siempre el mismo, y que, aunque pareciera quedar así fechado, se reconoce por ser el debate de las luces. Y es que hay un dominio en que la aurora misma tarda: el que va de un prejuicio, del que no acaba de desembarazarse la psicopatología, a la falsa evidencia de la que el yo reclama un título para ostentar la existencia. Lo oscuro pasa allí por objeto y florece con el oscurantismo que encuentra allí mismo sus valores. Nada tiene, pues, de sorprendente que sea allí mismo donde se resista al descubrimiento de Freud, término que se prolonga aquí con una anfibología: el descubrimiento de Freud por Jacques Lacan.

La primera edición en español se publicó en 1971. Incluía una selección de los trabajos del autor. La edición completa siguiendo el orden de la edición francesa de los Escritos data de 1984. En las distintas etapas intervinieron como revisores el propio autor, Juan David Nasio y Armando Suárez. Es preciso haber leído esta compilación, y a todo lo largo, para sentir que allí se prosigue un solo debate, siempre el mismo, y que, aunque pareciera quedar así fechado, se reconoce por ser el debate de las luces. Y es que hay un dominio en que la aurora misma tarda: el que va de un prejuicio, del que no acaba de desembarazarse la psicopatología, a la falsa evidencia de la que el yo reclama un título para ostentar la existencia. Lo oscuro pasa allí por objeto y florece con el oscurantismo que encuentra allí mismo sus valores. Nada tiene, pues, de sorprendente que sea allí mismo donde se resista al descubrimiento de Freud, término que se prolonga aquí con una anfibología: el descubrimiento de Freud por Jacques Lacan.