By Sigi Jottkandt
Past love: A Phenomenology of the only explodes nice myths that stay unquestioned in psychoanalysis and modern philosophy: that old flame is a love of the mum and, in French thinker Alain Badiou's phraseology, 'the One is not'. The daring, crucial argument of the e-book claims that, with its unprejudiced attractiveness of old flame as mom love, psychoanalysis is liable to lacking the whole strength of its personal inspiration: the lifestyles of an uncounted One as named and held devoted to within the literary culture. In designated, delicate readings of the 1st Love of Samuel Beckett, Ivan Turgenev, Eudora Welty, John Clare and Soren Kierkegaard, Jottkandt considers the methods love is conceptually 'first' for those writers. With this groundbreaking paintings, Jottkandt suspends the modern philosophical stricture opposed to each inspiration of an 'all' to unmask the shadowy determine hid at the back of the conventional psychoanalytic fable of past love: (some)One that - or even who - isn't really only an influence of constitution.
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Beckett, First Love, pp. 32-33. 62. Beckett, First Love, p. 33. 22 First Love I find the best way of understanding what has just occurred is through reference to what Lacan calls the ‘unary trait’. This is a term he obtains from Freud’s discussion of identification in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego. We saw already how for Freud, identification is considered the earliest emotional tie, occurring prior to any object-choice. It takes place as part of what Freud calls primary narcissism.
62 To my mind, this is a genuinely remarkable moment in the novella, although it is glossed over by the narrator in his usual deadpan fashion. What makes it remarkable is the radical change it indexes in the narrator’s linguistic abilities. In renaming Lulu ‘Anna’, the narrator is not canceling out an earlier constative statement with its opposite, in the manner of his other symbolic waverings. But nor does this impress us as one of his neologisms, formed through collapsing together unrelated words.
First Love 18 What is most striking for our purposes is the way, in an illuminating study of the structural position of neurotic depressive complaints within the Lacanian difficulty/movement matrix introduced in Seminar X, Anxiety (1962-63), Verhaeghe’s colleague at Ghent University, Stijn Vanheule, portrays the depressive subject’s relationship to language. 55 Calling the depressive state ‘symbolically immobile’ in relation to anxiety, Vanheule locates depressive problems on the left hand side of Lacan’s ‘Difficulty/ Movement’ matrix: Difficulty Inhibition Emotion Dismay Impediment Symptom Acting-out Embarrassment Passage-à-l’acte Anxiety Movement Figure 1.