Après-Coup Psychoanalytic Association presents
On Absenting Oneself with Daniel Heller-Roazen
Friday, November 18, 2016
6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
The School of Visual Arts
136 West 21st Street, New York, NY
Literature, law and linguistics are familiar with cases in which speaking subjects absent themselves: examples include vanished characters, missing citizens and grammatical “non-persons.” This presentation will explore the relations between such figures and some of their many consequences.
Suggested Readings: Hawthorne, Nathaniel: “Wakefield.” Benveniste, Émile: “The Nature of Pronouns” and “Subjectivity in Language” (chs. 20 and 21 of Problems in General Linguistics).
Daniel Heller-Roazen is the Arthur W. Marks ’19 Professor of Comparative Literature and the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University. His books include Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language, The Inner Touch: Archaeology of a Sensation, The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations, The Fifth Hammer: Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World and Dark Tongues: The Art of Rogues and Riddlers. His latest book, No One’s Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming, is forthcoming in 2017.
Attendance fee: $20; for students with ID: $10.
Attendance is free for members of Après-Coup as well as for the
faculty and students of the School of Visual Arts.
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