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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (2): 177–185.
Published: 01 March 2003
... discussions employing the term—aisthetically—in a psychological model, including, among others, the whole branch of theory of subjectivity accomplished by psychoanalysis as well as psy- choanalytical aesthetics. Accordingly, the entry contents itself with understanding the Freudian concept of the ego...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (2): 185–190.
Published: 01 March 2003
... of subjectivity accomplished by psychoanalysis as well as psy- choanalytical aesthetics. Accordingly, the entry contents itself with understanding the Freudian concept of the ego ideal in On Narcissim: An Introduction from an aesthetically neutral viewpoint that ranks it as a “tool for socialization” among...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (1): 90–93.
Published: 01 January 2007
...Janet Sayers The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: in the Wake of Klein. By Mary Jacobus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xi, 303 p. University of Oregon 2007 Freud, Sigmund. The Ego and the Id. Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud . Vol. 19 . London...
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Comparative Literature (2007) 59 (1): 93–95.
Published: 01 January 2007
... also communicates and shares his phantasy” (60). Perhaps this is true too of Aeschylus’s play The Eumenides, which Riviere’s colleague Melanie Klein used to illustrate her claim, reports Jacobus, “that the ego, once it ac- knowledges its own destructiveness, becomes more tolerant, understanding...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (2): 164–176.
Published: 01 March 2003
... is Jacques Lacan’s well-known (if often misinterpreted) theory of the Gaze. For Berger, in its capacity as the dual subject of the portrait, the sitter’s ego (the sitter as ego) at once constitutes and de- constitutes itself by internalizing the viewpoint of the generalized socio-symbolic Other in whose...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 186–207.
Published: 01 June 2014
... exposure of himself predominates in the melancholic” (129). To talk about oneself is to refuse and/or to be unable to accept the verdict of reality, as if by enclosing the ego in a shell of self-conscious narrative the subject is able to protect it from having to acknowledge loss. To inves- tigate...
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Comparative Literature (2019) 71 (2): 123–138.
Published: 01 June 2019
.... In so doing, it also affirms at the level of form its anticolonial or postcolonial content. Published in 1979, the novel spans the middle decades of the twentieth century, ending just before the establishment of Nigerian political independence. It focuses on the life of a woman, Nnu Ego, who does...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (2): 220–241.
Published: 01 June 2013
... . . . that the self- reproaches are reproaches against a loved object which have been shifted away from it on to the patient’s own ego” (Standard Edition  14: 248). As I have suggested, this argument harkens back to a much earlier formulation in the 1897 draft-letter to Fliess, which also addresses Freud’s...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (3): 272–275.
Published: 01 September 2020
... for counterfocalization into complicit irony: She used to go to the sandy square called Otinkpu, near where she lived, and tell people there that her son was in “Emelika,” and that she had another one also in the land of the white men—she could never manage the name Canada. After such wandering one night, Nnu Ego lay...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (2): 95–112.
Published: 01 March 2006
... sensibility. COMPARATIVE LITERATURE/106 The masochistic ego is only apparently crushed by the superego. What insolence and humor, what irrepressible defiance and ultimate triumph lie hidden behind an ego that claims to be so weak. The weakness of the ego is a strategy by which the masochist...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (4): 333–353.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., to the Oedipal fantasy of heterosexuality and family values; she calls this the foundational fantasy of contemporary cul- ture. Just as important, she historicizes the Oedipal fantasy in relation to Jacques Lacan’s theory of the mirror stage, in which he characterized the development of the subject, or ego...
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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (3): 214–232.
Published: 01 June 2001
... priroda, i voistinu takov i dolzhen byt’ trup cheloveka, kto by on ni byl, posle takikh muk. Ia znaiu, chto khristianskaia tserkov’ ustanovila eshche v pervye veka, chto Khristos stradal ne obrazno, a deistvitel’no i chto i telo ego, stalo byt’, bylo podchineno na kreste zakonu prirody vpolne i...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 121–149.
Published: 01 June 2012
... : Suhrkamp , 1973 . Print . Lacan Jacques . The Seminar of Jacques Lacan. Book 2. The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis, 1954–1955 . Ed. Miller Jacques-Alain . Trans. Tomaselli Sylvana . Notes Forrester John . New York : W.W. Norton , 1988 . Print...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 293–319.
Published: 01 September 2003
...LILACH LACHMAN TIME, SPACE, AND ILLUSION: KEATS & POUSSIN /293 LILACH LACHMAN Time, Space, and Illusion: Between Keats and Poussin Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), “Et in Arcadia Ego, or The Arcadian Shepherds.” Oil on canvas...
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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (4): 394–414.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., the mind succumbs to an altered state of consciousness that is shaped by its thorough “immersion” in or identification with the traumatic scene. A second the- atrical analogy compares the mental processes involved to spectatorship. As the boundaries of the ego dissolve, so does the “specular distance...
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Comparative Literature (2024) 76 (1): 86–104.
Published: 01 March 2024
... or snobbish grande dame, even the panoramic high society of Proust melts away into some impalpable matter shaped by the bodiless ego of the narrator. With uncanny foresight, the “je anonyme” that Sarraute discerns in the early twentieth century preempts the shapeless manic fabulist of Beckett’s late fiction...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (4): 471–497.
Published: 01 December 2022
... depicted Paris of the interwar years in her now cult lesbian modernist novel Nightwood (1936), and Barnes’s friend Daniel Mahoney, immortalized in Nightwood through an alter ego, Dr. Matthew O’Connor. 2 Nightwood details O’Connor’s observations of life in 1920s Paris and the breakdown...
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Comparative Literature (2004) 56 (4): 347–361.
Published: 01 September 2004
... person. For Levinas, to view the Other primarily as culturally (or racially or sexually) different would turn the face of the Other into an object of knowledge that has been assimilated by my consciousness, and hence not an occasion for the transcendence of the ego in the direction of what...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (1): 14–28.
Published: 01 January 2008
... providendum est, quid primum prestare nitar, nisi ut sicut ego a negotiis, sic ab otio meo procul absit inertia? (288, 290; If I also must take thought for it, either because of my moderate talent or my immoderate desire for fame, seeing that I have not yet tamed the latter with the curb of a rational mind...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 301–321.
Published: 01 September 2014
... of the ego,” Otherwise than Being  64). Other­wise than Being repeatedly insists that the self has a core that is eroded by its relationship with the other. Levinas characterizes this relationship as the extreme passivity of a self called to infinite responsibility for the other, the fellow human...