http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3797 Publications of Auteurs David Schrans fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3805 In this paper we elaborate Lacan's theory on courtly love to establish a link between literature, psychoanalytic practice and psychoanalytic theory. Lacan himself had already established the link between courtly love and psychoanalytic practice as a way of working through the mourning for the structural lack in the Symbolic order. As such, both can be seen as an anticipation of anticipation: not the object itself is anticipated, but rather the anticipation of this object. Through the use of Stiegler's (2010) reinterpretation of the concept of the pharmakon we understand psychoanalytic theory and literature in general as attempts to work through this mourning by creating an anamnesis, a "long circuit" of knowledge in which the creators are implied with their own subjectivity. An analysis of Graham Swift's novel Ever After and of Italo Calvino's novel If on a winter's night a traveler demonstrate how this principle applies to the processes of writing and reading. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:12:32 +0200 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:12:41 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3805 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3798 This paper argues that the representation of violence in Stanley Kubrick's 2001, A Space Odyssey can be interpreted as a recurrent staging of the fantasy described by Freud in his 1919 article A Child is Being Beaten. A twofold implication of the function of anticipation is retrieved in terms of Lacan's discussion of the three phased development of the beating fantasy. In Lacan's reading, the second phase of this fantasy takes up an anticipatory function with regard to the assumption of Symbolic castration in the third phase. We argue that the retroactive construction of the three different formulas in the description of the beating fantasy in itself implies the pre-existence, and thus anticipatory function of the Symbolic Order. The anticipatory function of the Symbolic Order is retrieved in Kubrick's particular mode of staging the beating fantasy, as it both implies the signifier of the Name-of-Kubrick's-Father and the phallus as signifier of a structural lack. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:12:04 +0200 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:12:15 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3798 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3791 In Lacanian theory the process of the coming into being of the subject is considered as a continuous and anticipatory process of interaction between the organizational levels of the biological and the social. The latter comprises what Lacan called the symbolic order ("l'Autre" or the Other) that anticipates the coming into being of the subject. It is argued that this anticipatory function of the Other is at stake in Alan Bennett's play The History Boys (2004). More specifically, by a close reading of Bennett's text, it is shown how anticipation is implied in the. three main themes of the play: 1. in the headmaster's and Irwin's vision on education; 2. in Irwin's view on history; 3. in Rector's view on the function of poetry. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:11:22 +0200 Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:11:32 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3791