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3. What is Critique?

Author

ffrench, Patrick

Subjects
PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, LITERATURE, INSUBORDINATION, ATTITUDE (Psychology)
Abstract

The article presents the discussion on Michel Foucault's lecture about ‘What is Critique? Topics include relation to what philosophy, science, politics, ethics, law, literature, etc., positively constitute; and last phrase with the shorter definition of the ‘critical attitude' as ‘the art of voluntary insubordination.

Published
2024
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4. Guattari's Therapeutics: From Transference to Transversality

Author

Ffrench, Patrick

Subjects
Philosophy, Literature and Literary Theory, Transversality, Félix Guattari, Transference
Abstract

‘Transversality’ is a key term in the work of Félix Guattari. As a conceptual and pragmatic motor for the generation of heterogeneity, it extends throughout all of his work, including the writing he undertook with Deleuze. It promotes the rupture and redistribution of hierarchical structures, the mobilisation of operations of deterritorialisation across the social and cultural field, and it gains a ‘chaosmic’ dimension in the later writings. Its ‘origins’, however, are to be found in Guattari's early work at the Clinique de la Borde and in militant Marxist movements in the 1950s and early 1960s. This is an initial and necessarily provisional effort to embed the concept in a social and therapeutic pragmatics and thus counter a debateable tendency towards a dilution or diffusion of transversality in theoretical abstraction, where it risks becoming a synonym for a generalised sense of creative differentiation.

Published
2023

7. Translating Gradiva: Research Notes.

Author

ffrench, Patrick

Subjects
DREAMS, DELUSIONS, DISCOURSE, TRANSLATING & interpreting
Abstract

In one of the fragments of the lover's discourse translated by Timothy Matthews in this volume Barthes considers the figure of Gradiva, from Jensen's tale, engaging thereby with Freud's essay on 'Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's Gradiva'. Gradiva is a figure of a happy outcome, whereby Zoe Bertgang 'gently' eases Norbert Hanold out of the psychotic delusion of his amorous fascination. But these dynamics are not as straightforward as they seem; if, as Barthes suggests, the madness of love is all-encompassing, total, what are we to make of Zoe's devotion, since she splits herself, between Gradiva and Zoe. This paradoxical tension, between loving and being in love, generates further aporia and tension in the translations enacted across the texts of Barthes, Jensen and Freud. These 'research notes' on Gradiva enumerate multiple indices of the 'Gradiva dossier', opened by Barthes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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8. Guest Editors' Introduction.

Author

ffrench, Patrick and Mathews, Timothy

Subjects
TONALITY, DISCOURSE
Abstract

The guest editors of this issue of CounterText, Patrick ffrench and Timothy Mathews, introduce the volume Roland Barthes,Fragments of a Lover's Discourse: Translating Again, Writing Again, offering context and rationale for the project, situating the individual contributions, and anticipating their tonalities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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15. Exposures: Critical Essays on Jean-Luc Nancy.

Author

James, Ian and Ffrench, Patrick

Subjects
PREFACES & forewords
Abstract

The article presents an introduction to the common themes of the articles contained in the journal dedicated to philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy.

Published
2005

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