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Zusatztext James Penney's book is a delightfully fresh account of Jean Genet, whose work seems to be gaining in relevance as time goes on. Remarkably rich in detail and insight, the book presents us with a compelling rendering of Genet's ontology and a powerful theory of the poetic act. Informationen zum Autor James Penney is Professor of Cultural Studies and French and Francophone Studies at Trent University, Canada. He is the author of After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics (2014), The Structures of Love: Art and Politics Beyond the Transference (2012), and The World of Perversion: Psychoanalysis and the Impossible Absolute of Desire (2006). Vorwort The first volume to bring together Jean Genet and Jacques Lacan, revealing their shared ontology of fragility and incompletion. Zusammenfassung Bringing Jean Genet and Jacques Lacan into dialogue, James Penney examines the overlooked similarities between Genet’s literary oeuvre and Lacanian psychoanalysis, uncovering in particular their shared ontology of fragility and incompletion. This book exposes the two thinkers' joint and unwavering ontological conviction that the representations that make up the world of appearances are inherently enigmatic: inscrutable, not only on the level of their problematic link to knowledge and meaning, but also, more fundamentally, as concerns the reliability of their existence. According to Genet and Lacan, the signification of words and images will forever remain unfulfilled, just like the whole of reality, as if prematurely removed from the oven, under-baked. Genet, Lacan and the Ontology of Incompletion reveals how, in the same manner as Lacan’s psychoanalytic act, Genet’s acts of poetry further seek to expose the fragile prop that holds our reality together, baring the fissures in being for which fantasy normally compensates. Moving away from scholarship that considers Genet’s plays, novels, sexuality and politics in isolation, Penney explores the whole span of Genet’s work, from his early novels to the posthumously-published Prisoner of Love and, combining this with psychoanalysis, opens up new avenues for thinking about Genet, Lacan and our wanting being. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Acts of Poetry, Acts of Interpretation1. Logic and Fantasy: Freud on Moses 2. Towards Feminine Being: Our Lady of the Flowers 3. The Phallus Unveiled: The Balcony 4. Residue of Modernity, Wound of Being: Genet on Art5. Postcoloniality Meets Indeterminate Negation: The Screens 6. The Image of Absence: Prisoner of Love Bibliography Index ...
