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Crypt Studies | Preface

Monday, October 24, 2011

Laurence A. Rickels | Images: Pola Sperber By “crypt study,” I mean to emplace each reading in this dossier in specialized relationship to the “case study” genre. While the metapsychology or system that Nicholas Abraham and Maria Torok sought to convey with their reading of the “cryptonymy” of Freud’s case study of the Wolfman has been lost or integrated within the host of re-readings of psychoanalysis after Freud,  Read More

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Missing Letters

Monday, October 24, 2011

Christopher Lee | Images: Sascha Brosamer ABSTRACT: This paper tracks the symptom of ‘missing letters’ in order to connect the anxiety that permeates August Strindberg’s life and works to his destiny as the carrier of his dead sister’s crypt. In his 1887 essay “‘Soul Murder’ (A Propos “Rosmersholm”),” Strindberg reveals that the bottom-line of his anxiety is not interpersonal conflict, but the potential for loss that always accompanies transmitted messages along their itineraries. By couching this... 

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The Dissolution of Reality into a Simple Form

Over Your Dead Mother: Rumors and Secrets in Stifter’s “Tourmaline”

Monday, October 24, 2011

Nicola Behrmann | Images: Anders Dickson ABSTRACT: Despite his confidence that he could create a simple and lucid masterpiece of descriptive narration, Adalbert Stifter’s “Tourmaline” turned out to be the most obscure and complex tale in his story-collection Many-Colored Stones (1852). This essay traces the cryptological drive undermining the coherence and closure the realist narrator attempts to provide.  Read More

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Addictation Machines

Monday, October 24, 2011

J. Godley | Images: Valentin Hennig ABSTRACT: Entry into the crypt William Burroughs shared with his mother opened and shut around a failed re-enactment of William Tell’s shot through the prop placed upon a loved one’s head. The accidental killing of his wife Joan completed the installation of the addictation machine that spun melancholia as manic dissemination. An early encryptment to which was added the audio portion of abuse deposited an undeliverable message in WB. William could never tell, although his corpus... 

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Else Lasker-Schüler and the Poetics of Incorporation

Monday, October 24, 2011

Leigh Gold | Images: Rodrigo Hernandez ABSTRACT: In Else Lasker-Schüler’s poetry and prose, we find the desire or wish to be devoured by the love object while consuming the object in turn. In this analysis the merger or turn of phrase is tied to the subject’s own constitutive incorporation of a dead loved one. Now living objects must be loved to death or undeath.  Read More

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Ex-Corporation: On Male Birth Fantasies

Monday, October 24, 2011

Christine Kanz | Images: Adam Cmiel ABSTRACT: Between 1890 and 1933, male birth fantasies became a widespread phenomenon in European culture. One of the key examples of male birth fantasies is Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s “African” novel Mafarka the Futurist. The novel’s protagonist, Mafarka, gives birth to a child—by his will power and by drawing on diverse formations of knowledge, from alchemy to theories of evolution. In addition to the consideration given the psycho-historical, cultural, and scientific... 

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Kant Crisis

Monday, October 24, 2011

William H. Carter | Images: Julian Fickler ABSTRACT: This study approaches the last days of Immanuel Kant through the lens of his contemporary biographers and other correspondents. Among the latter, Kant’s brother and, subsequently, his brother’s family provide a symptomatic reflection upon Kant’s management of his genealogy and his legacy. Yet behind this body of work is another corpus, one which embodies maternal and paternal legacies that are not readily subsumed by Oedipus or Kant’s philosophy. This work... 

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On Hamlet’s Crypt: Effi Briest, Asta Nielsen, and Britney Spears

Monday, October 24, 2011

Viola Kolarov | Images: Susanne Lanckowsky ABSTRACT: This contribution looks at the way instinct is transmitted and represented as ghost appearance. The essay elaborates two basic theses: first, that instinct is not defined by creaturely heritage, since it is not a testable structure in itself, nor subject to mourning—and developmental—processes; and second,  Read More

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Imaging Indian Women: Review of Women Changing India: 100 Photos, Reporters Without Borders, Reviewed by Asma Sayed

Imaging Indian Women: Review of Women Changing India: 100 Photos, Reporters Without Borders, Sept. 2011, pp. 144, € 9.90. ISBN: 978-2-36220004-5, ISSN: 1958-0797. Reviewed by Asma Sayed, Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Alberta, Canada If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a 100 pictures’ worth? Women Changing India: 100 Photos, published [...]

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On the aesthetic and political ramifications of stealing, appropriating, and quoting images. — Sur les ramifications esthétiques et politiques du vol, de l’appropriation, et de la citation iconique.

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