... exchanges. As such, it asks what role the voice plays in the ongoing game of fort-da that underlies everyday human experience, and whether the ontological stakes change in different technological situations and environments. Paying particular attention to the gendered voice, this piece attempts to steer...

... explains the jubilant restlessness of Bersani’s oeuvre. The author concludes with a reading of Freud’s infamous fort/da game, arguing that the child lessens his stake in a magisterial and anxious identity so as to extend himself, or parts of himself, joyfully and impersonally, into the world. dclark...

... is culturally articulated. The linguistic signifier alone is seen to carve out not only the lack which sustains desire, but the "space" of the unconscious. Lacan allegorizes the advent of language with the famous fort/da story recounted by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle (14-17). As the reader...

... the Pleasure Principle ) of his grandson’s fort/da game as a form of autobiography, since Freud’s description is first and foremost a depiction of his own experience of witnessing. Of this speculative autobiographical moment in Freud’s text, Derrida writes that “the fort/da involved here is a particular...

... with a repetitious game of fort/da . This very form, argues Arondekar, maintains the archive in a paradoxical tension: the absence of colonial sexuality incites the investigation into the archive, while the presence of colonial sexuality threatens that very same hermeneutical drive for retrieval/recovery (16...

... of English Etymology . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1966 . Simpson D. P. , ed. Cassell's Latin Dictionary . New York : Macmillan Publishing Company , 1968 . ERIN SOROS Giving Death The fort/da in question here, as a particular story, is an autobiography which instructs: every autobiography...

... between lack 40 The Gift of Love and the Debt of Desire and the signifier, so famously described in the Fort-Da game), the bodily satisfaction that emerges beyond need will fall short of desire, remaining attached to a suffering that it cannot adequately contain. "Desire begins to take form inseparable...

... of the fort-da game, he adds a "reminder" which, as he puts it, is "of no use for our purposes" (emphasis added). The story of the fort-da game is of course the story of repetition as a means of retroactive mastery by way of the conversion of an unpleasurable passivity into a pleasurable activity. The useless...

.... Sigmund Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) contains ideas that would become mainstays of psychoanalytic criticism of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries: fort-da, the passivity of the experience sublated in the activity of the game; Tancred and Clorinda’s erotic wounding; the death drive...

...—the text’s central problem. What is both avowed and disavowed in exergasia ’s play of fort/da is the constitutive belatedness (and here we should hear the necessary repetition and distortion) of all experience. Not only can the “image” be developed only after a period of delay, but this delay determines...

... in where corpses stood for people, liquid and builds up gradually eliding their crucial difference to whole specimens [. . Disgust in a play of fort/da—death...

... Klein were developing a theory of object relations and when (in the wake of Freud’s analysis of the fort/da in 1920) Klein developed her play technique for children, making use of toys to facilitate the work of analysis...

... unclassifiable relic of language is fitted into a meaningful set of linguistic parameters, made to conform to the rules of language that can be mastered. Nor will you have failed to notice the resonance of the Fort-da game in Kofman's account of insertion of this lexeme mar into a linguistic system, in terms...

... elsewhere. Following a discussion of the significance of children’s play at the end of the second chapter—including the example of the fort/da game for which this chapter is best known—Freud concludes with the only substantial, albeit brief, meditation on art in that text: Finally, a reminder may...

.... “Stein und Zeit. Das `monumentale'Gedächtnis der altägyptischen Kultur.” Kultur und Gedächtnis . Ed. Jan Assmann and Tonio Hölscher. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1988 . 87 –114. Behrens, Kathryn L. Paper Money in Maryland:1727–1789 . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1923 . Benjamin, Walter...

.... These virginal mediums, argues Castronovo, “promised that white middle-class males could ascribe to a spectral citizenship untroubled by the struggles of po- litical fort-da. . . . The dead white men who spoke to mediums relished...

... compromised, to an extent, by its implicitly Hegelian model of triadic evolution), see Comaroff and Comaroff . 6 On the intimate connection between theory, canon, and memory, see my article “Das Gedächtnis der Theorie.” 7 For more on this, see my article, “On the Significance of Historical...

...). The original German is: es gibt kein 'Sein' hinter dem Tun, Wirken, Werden; 'der Tater' ist zum Tun bIos hinzugedichtet-das Tun ist alles." Butler points out that the English translation misses the point that there is no reference to an "act," but only to a "doingdas Tun. "Doing" (in this case praising...

.... IV But Da isy’s blamewor thiness hardly saves Gatsby from the novel’s censure. The charge of “appa lling sentimentality” extends beyond the feminine vulgarity of his self-invention to include his romantic love...