Punctum, Chris?
On 2 May 2012 23:31, Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 29/04/12 18:16, David Bircumshaw wrote:
>
>> I picked up a copy of Camera Lucida in a
>> second-hand bookshop the other week. the eyes of that guy awaiting
>> execution, one and half centuries ago. whew.
>> i have one question: what is the role of the fictional character Barthes
>> which keeps popping up?
>>
> The self reflexive subjectivity in this book was something of an academic
> scandal. (In the academy third person disinterest is expected.)
>
> The first person being used by Barthes is the Puntum (sp?) which is
> Lacan's real. So it would get difficult to consider it purely fictional. In
> a sense the book is an eulogy to his mother.
>
> From memory, not having Lacan with me or the Camera Lucida book, this
> would involve Lacan's ideas of the mirror phase and the logic of the real
> (objet petit a, or something like that) where the father desires the son
> and the mother desires a gay son...
>
> but don't read Lacan; it could destroy your health, best wishes, cj
>
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