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Beckett, Lacan and the Gaze (Paperback)
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Beckett, Lacan and the Gaze (Paperback)
Series: Samuel Beckett in Company
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Forming a pair with the voice, the gaze is a central structuring
element of Samuel Becketts creation. And yet it takes the form of a
strangely impersonal visual dimension testifying to the absence of
an original exchange of gazes capable of founding personal identity
and opening up the world to desire. The collapse of conventional
reality and the highlighting of seeing devices -- eyes, mirrors,
windows -- point to the absence of a unified representation. While
masks and closed spaces show the visible to be opaque and devoid of
any beyond, light and darkness, spectres -- manifestations without
origin -- reveal a realm beyond the confines of identity, where
nothing provides a mediation with the seen, or sets it within
perspective. Finally, Becketts use of the audio-visual media
deepens his exploration of the irreducibly real part of existence
that escapes seeing. This study systematically examines these
essential aspects of the visual in Becketts creation. The
theoretical elaborations of Jacques Lacan -- in relation with
corresponding developments in the history and philosophy of the
visual arts -- offer an indispensible framework to understand the
imaginary not as representation, but as rooted in the fundamental
opacity of existence.
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