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Fuery explores the relationship between post-structuralism and absence. In order to understand the psychoanalytic theory of Lacan (and Freud), the deconstructionalist methodology of Derrida, Foucault's studies of systems of thought, and Kristeva's socio-cultural and psychoanalytic interests, Fuery believes it is necessary to take into consideration the function and operation of absence. He shows how post-structuralist theory can be seen as a system of studies of subjectivity in terms of absence, and how desire is based almost entirely on the precondition of absence. The study is divided into sections on subjectivity. desire, and meaning, with the final section working toward a hermeneutics and semiotics of absence.

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Author:   Patrick Fuery
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Volume:   No. 55.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780313295881

ISBN 10:   0313295883
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   30 October 1995
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments Preface Negativity, Negation, and Dialectics: Towards a Semantic Model of the Dialectics of Absence The Subject of Desire and Absence The True Aim of Desire: Subjectivity, Desire, and Absence Desire, Pleasure, and the Subject of Absence ""That Perilous Necessity"": Towards a Metaphysics of Subjectivity and Absence Desire and the Voice: Speaking Absences and the Absence of Speech Absence and the Gaze The Source of Tears and the Body's Bitter Light: Absence and the Scopic Drive Heterology of the Gaze and the System of Eclipse Towards a Semiotics of Absence On the Structure of the Sign and Absence Love and the Symphysis of Absence: Processes of Absence in the Formation and Operation of Codes Toward a Typology of the Absent Signifier Bibliography Index"

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PATRICK FUERY is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Linguistics, and Media at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Theories of Desire (1994) and the editor of Representation, Discourse and Desire (1994).

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