At 9:23 AM -0600 6/10/03, Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
>I think you're suggesting here that Mallarme's
>poetry in its "linguistic reality" (and I prefer that phrase to "meaning",
>it seems more exact) "detaches (from?) and reinserts itself into
>reality." And that seems to me somewhat mimetic of the effect
>of trauma, in which the person is disembodied, detached and torn
>out of his or her body, sense of "home", reality, etc. and where
>the "linguistic incompetence" that is a consequence is, whether
>it's expressed in aphasia or muteness, an attempt to reinsert
>oneself into reality but being aphasic or mute, fails, a ruined meaning.
>Which may explain your sense, as expressed briefly in your later
>post on this, that Mallarme's work is somewhat traumatising.
Ah yes, that makes sense to me... and also your comments on
Akhmatova's "wish of the self", which I fear does not move beyond the
self, despite its claiming to.
Best
A
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