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Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity

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the horror of solipsism; narcissism, infancy, and the inner child (in Broom, and other short stories); alterity and the narrative self; establishing community

Hayes-Brady, C. (2016). Narcissism, Alienation, and Commun(al)ity. In Hayes-Brady, C. The Unspeakable Failures of David Foster Wallace: Language, Identity, and Resistance. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 111-136

(adjective) of, relating to, or consisting of a name or names

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a kind of onomastic genealogy that literalizes the Wittgensteinian concept of family relationships

on the relation between Kopek (i.e., cents) to Ruble (i.e., dollars) in Broom

—p.116 by Clare Hayes-Brady
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a kind of onomastic genealogy that literalizes the Wittgensteinian concept of family relationships

on the relation between Kopek (i.e., cents) to Ruble (i.e., dollars) in Broom

—p.116 by Clare Hayes-Brady
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(psychoanalysis) the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea

119

It is about cathecting enough other people and enough of the world

in an email to Robert K Bolger, on AA (in Gesturing Toward Reality p45)

—p.119 by David Foster Wallace
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It is about cathecting enough other people and enough of the world

in an email to Robert K Bolger, on AA (in Gesturing Toward Reality p45)

—p.119 by David Foster Wallace
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just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary

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We use narrative to create an ordered "human time" out of the inchoate, uncontrollable cosmic time

—p.121 by Clare Hayes-Brady
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We use narrative to create an ordered "human time" out of the inchoate, uncontrollable cosmic time

—p.121 by Clare Hayes-Brady
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defined by Ricoeur as the balance of the idem and the ipse: one's belief in oneself, which cannot be verified by empirical evidence or extrinsic proof, but is based in confidence

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Lenore's self-assurance--or what Ricoeur would call her attestation--grows over the course of the novel

—p.128 by Clare Hayes-Brady
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Lenore's self-assurance--or what Ricoeur would call her attestation--grows over the course of the novel

—p.128 by Clare Hayes-Brady
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a tendency to extreme loquacity

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The deadening logorrhea of failed communication is the endgame of late postmodernist literature

—p.135 by Clare Hayes-Brady
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The deadening logorrhea of failed communication is the endgame of late postmodernist literature

—p.135 by Clare Hayes-Brady
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