Annual of French Studies

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
French Studies

The Transfer of Complaint: A Narcissistic Time-Share

Paragraph ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-293
Author(s):  
Avital Ronell
Keyword(s):  
French Studies ◽  
Time Share ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Insight Into

Reflecting on the debts collected by Shoshana Felman's work, within the theoretical contexts of the time in which the 1977 Yale French Studies issue of ‘Psychoanalysis and Literature’ first appeared, this article takes as its point of departure Lacan's analysis of Hamlet's father as the barred Other, focusing on Hamlet's ‘complaint’. The nature of the complaint (plainte, or Klage, also closely allied to Anklage, or accusation) is then explored in relation to various writers and thinkers — Rilke, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Heidegger, among others — and more specifically via a reading of François Roustang's La Fin de la plainte (The End of the Complaint), and his own interpretations of Freudian narcissism. Scanning the wreckage for which the little narcissists are responsible, the article aims to give more insight into the structuring principles of those who whine incessantly.

FRENCH STUDIES: THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

1996 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
D. A. Desserud ◽  
J. E. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
French Studies

Book Review: French Studies

2009 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-252
Author(s):  
Robert Lethbridge
Keyword(s):  
French Studies
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