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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