English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Birthmark, Jacques Lacan
10 Mar 2016
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Interpretaion is itself a means to becoming master of something nietzsche, the will to. Prior to their marriage, her birthmark didn"t bother the scienist: only ater the fact of marriage does he begin to be bothered. One mans obsessive relaionship between him and a mark on a person"s cheek. Story about obsessive need to control: obsessive need to know. All interpretaion is a way of reducing the uniqueness of something. Reduce the text to our level of understanding. Lacan: stain on her cheek is a iny irrupion of the real into the scienist"s life. Lacan: paranoia is a way in which someone misreads the world, everything has become a sign for him , paranoid person perceives meaning from everything. Barthes: 1956 essay the introducion to the structural analysis of narraive, for the reader of a text, every detail in a story is potenially meaningful, everything has a meaning or nothing has .
