TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paccaud-Huguet,Josiane
TI  - Pascal Quignard and the Insistence of the Letter
PY  - 2005///.
							
N1  - 78
N2  - 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
UR  - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-savoirs-et-cliniques-2005-1-page-133?lang=en
ER  -