The madder stain : : a psychoanalytic reading of Thomas Hardy / / by Annie Ramel.
The “madder stain” imprinted on Tess d’Urberville’s arm is part of a motif which runs through Hardy’s fiction. Similar to Barthes’s punctum shooting out of the studium , the stain is a place where the Real erupts, a blind spot that eludes interpretation. In the diegesis of the tragic novels, it is a...
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| Superior document: | Contemporary Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume 21 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill/Rodopi,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Contemporary psychoanalytic studies ;
Volume 21. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (190 pages). |
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| Summary: | The “madder stain” imprinted on Tess d’Urberville’s arm is part of a motif which runs through Hardy’s fiction. Similar to Barthes’s punctum shooting out of the studium , the stain is a place where the Real erupts, a blind spot that eludes interpretation. In the diegesis of the tragic novels, it is a surplus object whose intrusion disrupts reality and spells disaster. This book attempts to approach that unknowable kernel of jouissance by using Lacan’s concepts of object-gaze and object-voice—sometimes revisited by Zizek. The stain has a vocal quality: it is silence audible. In a world where sound cannot reverberate for lack of a structural void, voice is by necessity muted, stuck in the throat. Hence the peculiar quality of Tess’s voice, a silent feminine cry that has retained something of the lost vocal object. The sound of silence is what Hardy’s poetic prose allows us to hear. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 900429662X |
| ISSN: | 1571-4977 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Annie Ramel. |