Paccaud-Huguet, Josiane <br/><br/>
Pascal Quignard and the Insistence of the Letter 

 -  2005.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The baroque writing of Pascal Quignard, an admirer of Freud and Lacan, comes after psychoanalysis. The author who once experienced the failure of language as traumatic enjoyment pays homage to a marginal literary tradition which privileges the silent biological life of the letter. Through the fictional mode, he explores in Le Nom sur le Bout de la Langue and Terrasse à Rome the liminal edge of language and the enigmatic power of the letter. The artist’s know-how echoes many of Lacan’s insights in “L’instance de la lettre” (1957) and “Lituraterre” (1971) where it appears that a letter, once detached from the signifying dimension, can be a recipient for enjoyment. It also sheds light upon the two sides of psychoanalytical transference as fiction and  making do with the real.