Tag: samuel beckett

• Beckett, Lacan, and the Gaze

  The book advances the claim that Beckett’s visual universe can be described neither through a general theory of “modernist perception” nor through a simple psychoanalytic allegory of seeing, but only by reconstructing the specific way in which the gaze functions as an impersonal, structuring dimension where subject and world fail to meet. In forming a…

  S. Gros

  November 15, 2025

  Fiction, Psychoanalysis

  books, education, Fiction, history, Jacques Lacan, literature, Psychoanalysis, psychology, samuel beckett, Sigmund Freud

• Beckett, Lacan, and the Voice

  Brown’s Beckett, Lacan and the Voice stakes its claim on a very precise terrain: it proposes that Beckett’s entire œuvre can be re-read if one takes seriously the Lacanian thesis that the voice is a specific psychoanalytic object—neither pure sound nor mere vehicle of meaning, but the residue of language that both grounds and unravels…

  S. Gros

  November 15, 2025

  Fiction, history, Psychoanalysis

  history, Jacques Lacan, literature, Psychoanalysis, psychology, samuel beckett, Sigmund Freud

• Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real

  The book’s wager is that the most precise way to think the relation between Beckett’s late prose and Lacan’s late teaching passes through mathematics understood as a mode of writing. Its distinctive contribution is to displace familiar topoi of “Beckett and psychoanalysis” or “Beckett and modernism” by constructing a very closely linked three-term configuration in…

  S. Gros

  November 15, 2025

  Fiction, Psychoanalysis

  Fiction, history, islam, Jacques Lacan, literature, mathemathics, metaphysics, Psychoanalysis, psychology, religion, samuel beckett, Sigmund Freud

• Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter: Hegel, Beckett und ihre Zumutungen

  Ludwig Pfeiffer’s Was bleibet aber, stiften die Dichter: Hegel, Beckett und ihre Zumutungen (What Remains, However, Are Created by the Poets: Hegel, Beckett, and Their Demands) is a key philosophical reflection that explores the complex and often fraught relationship between philosophy and literature. Anchored in the intellectual context of early modern Europe, where the proliferation…

  S. Gros

  November 11, 2024

  Philosophy

  art, beckett, dialectic, education, hegel, history, kant, literature, metaphysics, Philosophy, poetry, Politics, religion, samuel beckett, theology