item: #1 of 31 id: jcli-10 author: Bishop, Benjamin title: Topology and the Inscription of the Clinic date: 2015-12-18 words: 2745 flesch: 45 summary: Topology and analysis bear a non-relation whose disjunction refuses any mimesis between clinical problems and topological objects, exposing the clinic to a real that reorients the approach to the symptom from a therapy of treatment to work of inscription. Whereas aesthetics secures its principles and objects of in- quiry, at least in the Kantian program, through an agreement within a community, topology is a mathematical field whose practice is secured by discourses such as algebra, graph theory, group theory, category theory and topology. keywords: knot; object; reading; topology; work cache: jcli-10.pdf plain text: jcli-10.txt item: #2 of 31 id: jcli-107 author: Kukuljevic, Alexi title: Screaming without Sound date: 2020-07-22 words: 9299 flesch: 77 summary: written words do not speak but are spoken. Writing isn’t just telling stories. keywords: consul; duras; life; practicalities; s12; sense; sound; story; trans; vice; water; woman; words; writing cache: jcli-107.pdf plain text: jcli-107.txt item: #3 of 31 id: jcli-113 author: Jöttkandt, Sigi title: History's Hard Sign: Vladimir Nabokov's 'The Visit to the Museum' date: 2020-07-22 words: 6854 flesch: 58 summary: If the ‘nightmare’ of history would be the sole dream from which one cannot awake – if History is “what hurts,” as Fredric Jameson famously puts it49 – what is curious is how a strange symmetry, a certain visual echo, suffuses this putative ‘real’: rical backdrops but also for sabots, the small disks or rings in a firearm that guide a bullet through the driving band of a gun), the crystal hints at the Museum’s stealth assassination of linear models of time that the idea of History seems to institute. keywords: body; history; image; jöttkandt; leroy; museum; nabokov; narrator; painting; parallax; real; red; russian; s12; sign; time; world cache: jcli-113.pdf plain text: jcli-113.txt item: #4 of 31 id: jcli-122 author: Chattopadhyay, Arka title: Logical Space in Lacan: From Poe's Letter to Valdemar's Body date: 2022-10-14 words: 9306 flesch: 65 summary: However, given the special connection between logic and the real, I am more interested in real logical space than the avatar of logic in the spatiality of the other two orders. It is this movement that makes it an incarnation of real logical space. keywords: body; borromean; hole; lacan; logic; poe; point; real; seminar; space; time; valdemar cache: jcli-122.pdf plain text: jcli-122.txt item: #5 of 31 id: jcli-15 author: Tomšič, Samo title: Homology: Marx and Lacan date: 2015-12-18 words: 8452 flesch: 52 summary: and one could even claim that this connec- Tomšič: Homology: Marx and Lacan S5 (2012): 101 tion of formalization and materialism, the matheme doctrine, can be considered as the persistence of dialectics in Lacan’s teaching. By linking Tomšič: Homology: Marx and Lacan S5 (2012): 104 language and labour with the unconscious Freud modifies the figure of the speaker and the labourer: ça parle, as Lacan will say, but we could also add, ça travaille. keywords: capitalist; jouissance; labour; lacan; language; marx; relation; surplus; unconscious; value cache: jcli-15.pdf plain text: jcli-15.txt item: #6 of 31 id: jcli-20 author: Sels, Nadia title: Myth, Mind and Metaphor: On the Relation of Mythology and Psychoanalysis date: 2015-12-18 words: 7752 flesch: 58 summary: On Freud’s acceptance of the uses of myth, see Hans Blumenberg, Work on Myth, trans. Sels: Myth, Mind and Metaphor S4 (2011): 57 sembles psychoanalysis itself: both disciplines deal with the irrational, both work with stories, and both have to do with interpreting metaphorical language. keywords: freud; jung; lacan; language; metaphor; mind; myth; mythology; new; press; problem; psychoanalysis; theory cache: jcli-20.pdf plain text: jcli-20.txt item: #7 of 31 id: jcli-23 author: Lojkine, Stéphane title: 'Something White': Lacanian Theory And The Theory Of Operative Devices date: 2015-12-18 words: 10620 flesch: 59 summary: Père Roque is a nouveau riche man from Nogent whom the National Guards have posted as sentinel on the terrace of the Tuileries palace to guard the insur- gents imprisoned below him. Père Roque was indignant at seeing his authority slighted. keywords: device; eye; father; flaubert; lacan; light; lojkine; louise; père; père roque; representation; roque; scene; screen; subject cache: jcli-23.pdf plain text: jcli-23.txt item: #8 of 31 id: jcli-31 author: Milner, Jean-Claude title: Prose Redeemed date: 2015-12-18 words: 4070 flesch: 70 summary: Mallarmé’s doctrine, a phenomenology of verse, is well known: its first figure, Hugo, thought that prose spoke with eloquence about history and philosophy: “all prose, philosophy, eloquence, history”2; In short, prose eloquently says what takes place (history) in light of all possible knowledge (philosophy); therefore if poetry is to say something, it must thus say what takes place, otherwise it says nothing. The axiom is clear; prose speaks of what takes place. keywords: century; mallarmé; newspaper; place; poetry; prose cache: jcli-31.pdf plain text: jcli-31.txt item: #9 of 31 id: jcli-36 author: Pluth, Ed title: An Adventure in the Order of Things: Jean-Claude Milner on Lalangue and Lacan’s Incomplete Materialism date: 2015-12-18 words: 7230 flesch: 55 summary: Milner takes the use of these knots to mean that Lacan had concluded that showing theory was better than transmitting it through speech, and was also superior to the transmission of it via the mathemes Lacan had been using for years. I n L’Œuvre claire, Jean-Claude Milner claims that Lacan arrives at a theoretical impasse during his last years of teaching, one that makes his entire project comparable “to the great materialist works,” such as those by Lucretius and Marx—projects that, like Lacan’s, Milner thinks are incomplete or failed.1 keywords: lacan; lalangue; language; materialism; meillassoux; milner; real; theory; thinking cache: jcli-36.pdf plain text: jcli-36.txt item: #10 of 31 id: jcli-39 author: Hirt, Jean-Michel title: To Believe or to Interpret date: 2015-12-18 words: 2194 flesch: 55 summary: “Hence the meaning,” writes Pierre Lory, “of the Companions assembling around the Prophet every morning in order to share dreams: they came to bring the unveilings of the order of the divine Real, haqq.” Whence the critique of Muhammad’s detractors, who in the sura of “The Prophets” reproach him for making up “medleys of dream” (Qur’an, 21: 5).2 I For Islam, the last monotheist religion, the dream is an ordinary miracle, destined for everyone, and in the Muslim society, throughout the ages, dream activity, this dimension of psychic and physiological life, of the Prophet, of the Sufis and of the simple believers, has never been overlooked. keywords: dream; god; islam; qur’an cache: jcli-39.pdf plain text: jcli-39.txt item: #11 of 31 id: jcli-4 author: Lunaček, Izar title: A Comedy of Horrors date: 2015-12-17 words: 7680 flesch: 46 summary: Comedy and horror really do share many common themes and it was Alen- ka Zupančič who first noted the similarity between Bergson’s list of comedic phe- nomena and freud’s enumeration of uncanny motifs in his own short text on Das Lunaček: A comedy of horrors S6-7 (2014): 31 Unheimliche: the themes of mechanical life, strange coincidences and doppelgang- ers are shared by both genres but generate very divergent emotional responses.10 What is additionally interesting here is that freud’s explanation of both sensations engaged the same concept of infantile pleasure: in his book on jokes comedy is reduced to a revival of infantile pleasure (pleasure in nonsensical word and con- cept play as well as in egotism, unbridled sexuality, aggression etc) that effectively bypasses our adult censor via smoke screens of sophisticated poetics or similes of logical operations,11 while his text on the uncanny explains our feelings of horror at witnessing dolls come alive or our selves redoubled in hellish doubles as anxiety at having our own infantile desires suddenly fulfilled in the real with our internal censor still on guard.12 While comedies often tend to start and end in blissful circumstances, what actually makes us laugh in between is the hilarious way it all unravels in the blink of an eye. keywords: bergson; comedy; comic; enjoyment; horrors; humor; jokes; laughter; lunaček; sense; way; world cache: jcli-4.pdf plain text: jcli-4.txt item: #12 of 31 id: jcli-41 author: Tazi, Nadia title: Jannah date: 2015-12-18 words: 8596 flesch: 51 summary: Islamic culture may harbor the arts of love in its past, amongst them an exquisite courtliness, but they have no place in this Paradise: when the sexual act is not hushed up altogether, it is only ever presented as coitus of never- ending arousal2 at a level of absolute intensity without quite reaching orgasm―or rather as a permanent orgasm―in which the woman’s only involvement is to reflect male power. And more precisely for Sadrâ, from the principle of quiddity which obstructs pure existence―that is, the act of being in its total singularity and full power. keywords: body; face; god; houri; islam; islamic; jannah; male; paradise; power; thought; virility; way; women; world cache: jcli-41.pdf plain text: jcli-41.txt item: #13 of 31 id: jcli-42 author: Jambet, Christian title: Four Discourses on Authority in Islam date: 2015-12-18 words: 10705 flesch: 50 summary: The very idea of expressing divine authority under the auspices of a state Caliphate power seemed to them to be in contradiction with the authentic, primitive notion of prophecy and of the just imamat, the authority of the guide. Now, according to the Qur’ran, it is only with the inexpressible essence of God that divine authority makes One. keywords: authority; discourses; god; islam; juridical; law; man; power; qur’an; religion; truth; world cache: jcli-42.pdf plain text: jcli-42.txt item: #14 of 31 id: jcli-47 author: Bishop, Benjamin title: Constructing God the Impossible in Fethi Benslama's Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam date: 2015-12-18 words: 3147 flesch: 59 summary: Benslama focuses on the name that Miskawayh gives to this transfer, huwa huwa, one of the many names of Allah. i s h o p Fethi Benslama, Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam. keywords: benslama; father; god; huwa; islam; reading cache: jcli-47.pdf plain text: jcli-47.txt item: #15 of 31 id: jcli-51 author: Kim-Reuter, Jonathan title: Montaigne in the “Garden of Earthly Delights”: the Image of the Corps Morcelé in the Essays date: 2015-12-18 words: 5893 flesch: 55 summary: Montaigne in the “Garden of Earthly Delights” S1 (2008): 42 whose inflated, transparent body stalked the dreams of one of Lacan’s analysands? One would need to oppose the generalizing character of language, to draw down the word to the level of subjective experience; there would need to be a pervasive mood of anxiousness suitable to a subject undergoing the collapse of its ego formation; there should be an exclusive attention to the body and to the body’s sensory, affective life: one would need to write essays, and one would have to be Montaigne. keywords: body; ego; essays; garden; image; imaginary; lacan; montaigne; self; subject cache: jcli-51.pdf plain text: jcli-51.txt item: #16 of 31 id: jcli-52 author: MacCannell, Juliet Flower title: The Real Imaginary: Lacan's Joyce date: 2015-12-18 words: 6116 flesch: 64 summary: I have recently argued that the sclerosis that characterizes “the discourse of the university” and its twin, the ethos of capitalism, are both founded on making “accumulation” (in the case of university discourse, the amassing of “total knowledge”) the discursive agent of contemporary discourse.12 (In the university 12 Juliet Flower MacCannell, “More Thoughts for the Times on War and Death: Lacan’s Critique of Capitalism in Seminar XVII” in Clemens and Grigg, ed., Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII (Durham and London: Duke University Press 2006) 194-215. Reading the Lacanian Subject through Perspective Thomas Brockelman 16 Montaigne in the “Garden of Earthly Delights”: the Image of the Corps Morcelé in the Essays Jonathan Kim-Reuter 36 The Real Imaginary: Lacan’s Joyce Juliet Flower MacCannell 46 Dialogues Intimate Extorted, Intimate Exposed Gérard Wajcman 58 Response: The Politics of “Atopia of the Intimate” in Contemporary Art: the View from Lacanian Psychoanalysis Lieven Jonckheere 78 Reviews Hitchcock’s Cryptonomies, by Tom Cohen Sigi Jöttkandt 100 S is on the web at www.lineofbeauty.org J u l i e t F l o w e r M a c C a n n e keywords: ego; imaginary; jouissance; joyce; lacan; language; new; real; seminar; signifier; xxiii cache: jcli-52.pdf plain text: jcli-52.txt item: #17 of 31 id: jcli-55 author: Jöttkandt, Sigi title: Hitchcock's Cryptonymies by Tom Cohen date: 2015-12-18 words: 9792 flesch: 50 summary: One might be justified, 2 Tom Cohen, Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Cohen, Ideology and Inscription: “Cultural Studies” after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). The spectral presences of each of these anti-aestheticians can readily be felt behind Cohen’s ravaging of the traditional categories of mimetic humanism, as he continues his deconstruction of the aesthetic programs lurking behind such terms as “aura,” “nature,” “earth,” “sun,” “memory,” “personification,” “anthropomorphism,” “home,” “identity,” “the state,” the “non-human other,” “family,” “time,” and “sexuality” that T 1 Tom Cohen, “Climate Change in the Aesthetic State (a Memory (Dis)Order), keywords: aesthetic; agents; cohen; cryptonymies; cut; hitchcock; machines; man; mother; phallus; r e; sabotage; secret; war; way cache: jcli-55.pdf plain text: jcli-55.txt item: #18 of 31 id: jcli-58 author: Bruno, Pierre title: The Capitalist Exemption date: 2016-01-25 words: 8921 flesch: 62 summary: In order not to respond too hurriedly, I will simply remark that the barrier of jou- issance is not really the condition sine qua non of discourse. The semblance is what, despite the complete impossibility of jouissance and of the slipping of the signifier, enables language, through discourse, to create a bond and ensure a regulation and circulation of jouissance; it is able, in principle, to distance us from the specters of mania or of a passage à l’acte, both of which are ways of putting an end to this bond. keywords: bruno; capitalist; castration; discourse; exemption; freud; jouissance; lacan; love; relation; subject; surplus; value; woman cache: jcli-58.pdf plain text: jcli-58.txt item: #19 of 31 id: jcli-60 author: Holland, John title: The Capitalist Uncanny date: 2016-01-25 words: 15996 flesch: 50 summary: For psychoanalysis, this necessary commensurability of the satisfactions included within capitalist knowledge must be considered as one of the weakest elements of the capitalists’ formulations: it does not take into account the incompatibility be- tween the pleasures recorded in the catalogue and surplus-jouissance. The elaboration of capitalist knowledge made through utilitarian calculations of interest is necessarily cruder than the operations of the unconscious; what these calculations miss regarding jouissance is far more radical and therefore one may suppose that the production of surplus-jouissance—the violent embodiment of what cannot fit into knowledge—will be accomplished with an even greater rapid- ity and efficiency. keywords: capitalist; discourse; freud; ideology; jouissance; knowledge; lacan; master; object; packer; reality; signifier; slave; subject; surplus; unconscious; way cache: jcli-60.pdf plain text: jcli-60.txt item: #20 of 31 id: jcli-65 author: Tomšič, Samo title: Laughter and Capitalism date: 2016-01-25 words: 8540 flesch: 47 summary: To mobilise this conflictual element—namely the subject that both marx and Freud encountered in productive social labour and in unconscious labour—against the capitalist strategies of exploitation is the shared effort of psychoanalysis and the critique of political economy, which is why no psy- choanalyst can be indifferent to the question: how can the exit from the capitalist discourse be brought about for all? This for all is indeed crucial, since it demands that psychoanalysis force the junc- ture of the singular with the universal, rather than remaining in the apparent au- tonomy and self-sufficiency of clinical experience. here, the indebted- ness of the system is “outsourced” to the multitude of political subjects and socially Tomšič: Laughter and Capitalism S8 (2015): 34 implemented as the new “holy Spirit,” the social link, in which the subject can participate only under the condition that he or she assumes the commodity form. keywords: capitalism; enjoyment; freud; labour; lacan; laughter; marx; production; psychoanalysis; structure; subject; value cache: jcli-65.pdf plain text: jcli-65.txt item: #21 of 31 id: jcli-69 author: Boncardo, Robert; Gelder, Christian R. title: Introduction: Advice to Young Psychoanalysts: Read Mallarmé date: 2016-12-14 words: 7749 flesch: 54 summary: 5. Vincent Kaufmann, ‘Les styles du livre: Mallarmé et Lacan’, Dalhousie French Studies, Vol. 25, ‘Mallarmé, Theorist of our times’ (Fall-Winter, 1993), p. 57. Yet as Milner recognizes, for Mallarmé verse is precisely that which “makes up for language’s deficiencies, as a superior sup- plement”22 by overcoming the Chance encounter between sound and sense in the transmutational space of a verse. keywords: badiou; gelder; introduction; jean; lacan; language; mallarmé; milner; poet; poetry; science; work cache: jcli-69.pdf plain text: jcli-69.txt item: #22 of 31 id: jcli-7 author: Yushinski, Orit title: Journey to the End of Ideology: Ideology and Jouissance in Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night date: 2015-12-17 words: 11159 flesch: 62 summary: After he manages to escape his lot, Bardamu functions as objet a, the object of enjoyment, for the officers who recount their tales of bravery. What the cynic (and the pervert) most despise is being taken in.26 Bardamu feels deceived: “I couldn’t make it out. keywords: arthur; bardamu; céline; end; enjoyment; ideology; ideology s6; jouissance; journey; life; object; pervert; subject; symbolic; yushinsky; žižek cache: jcli-7.pdf plain text: jcli-7.txt item: #23 of 31 id: jcli-70 author: Badiou, Alain title: Is it Exact that All Thought Emits a Throw of Dice? date: 2016-12-14 words: 7775 flesch: 62 summary: It is essential to understand that, at the antipodes of the connection between dream and Nature, in which the romantic vision had its origins, and which Baudelaire had only half disentangled, since he remained nostalgic for it, mallarmé holds that, in the epoch of the reign of technol- ogy, and of the accomplishment of Cartesianism in its effective possession, Nature has ceased to be of value as a referent for poetic metaphor: “Nature has taken place; it can’t be added to, except for cities or railroads or other inventions forming our material”.8 I will therefore hold that the real of which the mallarméan text proposes the an- ticipation is never the unfolded figure of a spectacle. There are what I will call evental sites, whose ontological structure is a necessary but not sufficient condition for the es- sentially paradoxical multiple of the event to occur there. keywords: badiou; dice; event; mallarmé; multiple; place; site; situation; thought; throw cache: jcli-70.pdf plain text: jcli-70.txt item: #24 of 31 id: jcli-73 author: Drigo, Larissa title: Folding and Unfolding the Infinite: Space-time relations in Mallarmé's Un coup de dés date: 2016-12-14 words: 6105 flesch: 61 summary: If a book can cause multiple time series to meet, it must be able to contract space — and thus contain all points of the universe. Thus each page (with the exception of the episode of the “solitary dis- traught feather” where letters are smaller, indicating the “depth” or deepest layer of the poem) is crossed by multiple time series. keywords: book; chance; infinite; mallarmé; motifs; page; poem; space; time cache: jcli-73.pdf plain text: jcli-73.txt item: #25 of 31 id: jcli-76 author: Kaufmann, Vincent title: Believe That It Was To Be Very Beautiful (Mallarmé and Baudelaire) date: 2016-12-14 words: 9310 flesch: 60 summary: Whatever the real state of Mallarmé’s health, whatever role hypochondria played (but all of this is even more significant if it is a case of hypochondria), it is necessary to point out that at the moment of Baudelaire’s death Mallarmé begins to be sick, to die — as if he were contaminated by Baudelaire’s death. as for texts (in prose) like L’Invitation au voyage and Un Hémisphère dans une chevelure, Barbara Johnson has shown that they are based upon an operation of a defiguration (and thus of a destitution) of poetics that Baudelaire carried out, start- ing with his texts in verse.23 upon the death of Baudelaire, Lefébure writes to Mallarmé “that genius is a mag- nificent sickness and that one can die from it”.24 Mallarmé could certainly have subscribed to such a statement, above all if the genius of Baudelaire consisted in the destitution of the subject, in denouncing and sacrificing it, before transmitting this problematic to him. keywords: baudelaire; death; god; kaufmann; mallarmé; paris; poetry; question; relation; subject; verse; vincent cache: jcli-76.pdf plain text: jcli-76.txt item: #26 of 31 id: jcli-79 author: Roger, Thierry title: Art and Anarchy in the Time of Symbolism: Mallarmé and His Literary Group date: 2016-12-14 words: 12442 flesch: 60 summary: P. berrichon, letter to mallarmé, february 11 1892, Stéphane mallarmé, Correspondance, henri mondor and L. J. Austin (eds.), t. VI, p. 201. mallarmé displaces anarchism by metaphorizing it, that is, by spir- itualizing it, without for all that defusing it, no doubt. keywords: anarchist; anarchy; art; cit; des; jean; les; mallarmé; marchal; paris; poet; politics; question; roger; social; symbolism; thierry; time cache: jcli-79.pdf plain text: jcli-79.txt item: #27 of 31 id: jcli-85 author: Bown, Alfie title: Hegel the Comedian, or The Wink of Saint Vitus date: 2018-11-19 words: 6327 flesch: 62 summary: Hegel writes that such laughter: Implies an infinite light-heartedness and confidence felt by someone raised altogether above his own inner contradiction and not bitter or miserable in it at all: this is the bliss and ease of a man who, being sure of himself, can bear the frustration of his aims and achievements.5 This idea of comedy can be read as being on the side of the subject, and on the side of a traditional reading of the Hegelian dialectic and of Hegel’s work as asserting totality and completeness. Pointing to a lack of attention to Hegel’s humour, Lacan hides his insight in a throwaway comment, himself making a joke by offering his audience the chance to ignore him and misread Hegel. keywords: comedy; discourse; hegel; humour; lacan; laughter; new; psychoanalysis; truth cache: jcli-85.pdf plain text: jcli-85.txt item: #28 of 31 id: jcli-87 author: Kolenc, Bara title: The Paradoxes of the Limping Cause in Kierkegaard, Hegel and Lacan date: 2018-11-19 words: 9759 flesch: 46 summary: even though hegel does not develop a theory of repetition, his theses on repetition concern the core of his dialectics. In psychoanalysis, the failure of repetition is the constitutive moment of repetition as the movement of the signifying structure and the logic of alienation through which the subject emerges in this signifying structure: “The function of missing lies at the centre of analytic repetition. keywords: cause; difference; hegel; identity; kierkegaard; lacan; limping; logic; non; paradox; repetition cache: jcli-87.pdf plain text: jcli-87.txt item: #29 of 31 id: jcli-90 author: Kukuljevic, Alexi title: Why a Hitchcock Drinks its Coffee Black date: 2018-11-19 words: 7901 flesch: 69 summary: Leitch, “The outer Circle: hitchcock on television” in Alfred Hitchcock: Centenary Essays, 59. Watch the calories; watch him tower up like a goyishe, like nobody else in the world.2 Mel Brooks’s narration—its richness of detail, attentiveness to hitchcock’s tim- ing and fine use of that signifier of suspense, the cigar—lends to their encounter a cinematic quality, as if the scene had been directed with a refined sense for the impression the ‘goodness’ of his appetite would make, not only on his companion, but posterity as such. keywords: absence; alfred; black; camera; coffee; david; film; hitchcock; image; kukuljevic; like; place; presence; s10; void cache: jcli-90.pdf plain text: jcli-90.txt item: #30 of 31 id: jcli-93 author: Faye, Esther title: Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel ... Ou pire: the Discourse of Capitalism date: 2018-11-19 words: 7999 flesch: 59 summary: It was Marx, as Lacan pointed out, who must be credited with having revealed the truth of capitalist discourse as the proletariat: “The proletariat means what? Esther faye: Il n’y a pas de rapport sexuel S10 & 11 (2017-18): 186 It is this very principle of language’s equivocity that is not only the fundamental condition of psychoanalytic discourse, it is also, said Lacan, what characterizes what we, that is psychoanalysts, refer to as man. keywords: capitalist; desire; discourse; jouissance; lacan; language; rapport; real; relation; subject; unconscious cache: jcli-93.pdf plain text: jcli-93.txt item: #31 of 31 id: jcli-98 author: Hjorth, Ben title: Introduction: cause:rie :: repetition:s date: 2018-11-19 words: 7698 flesch: 49 summary: I o n cause:rie :: repetition:s LEAr: … Speak. CordELIA: Nothing, my lord. The uncon- scious, and the compulsive repetitions of langue and lalangue by which its slippery, chameleonic traces are registered in consciousness, no more recognizes the inde- pendence, nor the unidirectional relation, of causes and effects than it obeys the “law” of non-contradiction, the laws of morality or of the land, or the grammatical rules which alone seem to allow for meaning within that very language, and to impart stability, substance and reference to language as such. keywords: cause; causerie; english; hegel; hjorth; introduction; lacan; language; loss; meaning; repetition; s10; sense; speech; style; subject cache: jcli-98.pdf plain text: jcli-98.txt