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Saussurean
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pertaining to or characteristic of the theories of Ferdinand de Saussure, especially the view that a language consists of a network of interrelated elements in contrast
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Lacan's Saussurian Signifier/signified equation
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Lacan's Saussurian Signifier/signified equation
spelled "Saussurian" here
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bulwark
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(noun) defensive wall
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atop the bulwark of poststructuralist thought
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atop the bulwark of poststructuralist thought
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metempsychosis
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the supposed transmigration at death of the soul of a human being or animal into a new body of the same or a different species
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Even more importantly, Hal possesses a quality that Kierkegaard would call "hiddenness" and that most intensely identifies the aesthete. In Kierkegaard's analysis, aesthetes use self-conscious thinking in order to hide from themselves. Likewise, Hal, in hiding his marijuana smoking from his friends and family, also in a sense hides it from himself. As the narrator explains, "Hal likes to get high in secret, but a bigger is secret is that he's as attached to the secrecy as he is to getting high" (49).
Even more importantly, Hal possesses a quality that Kierkegaard would call "hiddenness" and that most intensely identifies the aesthete. In Kierkegaard's analysis, aesthetes use self-conscious thinking in order to hide from themselves. Likewise, Hal, in hiding his marijuana smoking from his friends and family, also in a sense hides it from himself. As the narrator explains, "Hal likes to get high in secret, but a bigger is secret is that he's as attached to the secrecy as he is to getting high" (49).
gnomic
(en)
expressed in or of the nature of short, pithy maxims or aphorisms
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prelinguistic
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of or at a stage before the development of language (by the human species) or the acquisition of speech (by a child).
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He is, in many ways, the fulfillment of Lacan's characteristic dictum, "Le desir de l'Homme, c'est le desire de l'Autre,"which is often translated to read, "Man's desire is for the Other to desire him."
relevant to the CF-type character who realises how dumb it is to define himself by the desire he inspires in others
He is, in many ways, the fulfillment of Lacan's characteristic dictum, "Le desir de l'Homme, c'est le desire de l'Autre,"which is often translated to read, "Man's desire is for the Other to desire him."
relevant to the CF-type character who realises how dumb it is to define himself by the desire he inspires in others
Kern unseres Wesen
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"nucleus of our being"; from Freudian psychology
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annulation
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referring to a ringlike anatomical structure
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A footnote to the endnote cites a scholarly article titled "Has James O. Incandenza Ever Even Once Produced One Genuinely Original or Unappropriated or Nonderivative Thing?" (990nn), the answer being, "No."
an idea for a fake review of my DFW story (from Infinite Jest)
A footnote to the endnote cites a scholarly article titled "Has James O. Incandenza Ever Even Once Produced One Genuinely Original or Unappropriated or Nonderivative Thing?" (990nn), the answer being, "No."
an idea for a fake review of my DFW story (from Infinite Jest)