Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 11:21:03 -0700
Subject: Re: MB: MB and Psychoanalysis


Ooops, I made a mistake!  I admit I had totally forgotten the instances in
which Blanchot talks about Lacan in L'Entretien Infini - actually I should
reread the essay to see what specifically Blanchot has to say about
Lacanian theory - and then the "convergence" in The Writing of the
Disaster. Of course Blanchot is linked to Bataille, who in turn is linked
to Lacan , but I think that it is not a relationship of real conceptual
convergence. .For what is of Deleuze and Guattari, don't they in many ways
try to debunk the rigidity of the lacanian symbolic system thanks to the
concept of the "desiring machine" (I personally always thought that they
were much closer to Bataille than to Lacan). 

If I may, though, I'd like to come back to my argument about the inadequacy
of the parallel of the "fetish" for the blanchotian "image", and of
Lacanian "desire of domination" - a very hegelian concept, and if Blanchot
is an hegelian, he also tries to get out of the slave/master dialectics -
for "fascination", I would like to know if the other people who read it
think that the argument itself is faulty, besides my unforgivable
forgetfulness...

(I also dare to add that L'Entretien Infini (1969)is a collection of essays
written at least after 1962 - I don't know when the text on Lacan was first
published -, while the relationship of "fascination", the concept of the
"image" etc., start to take shape already around 1949 - see L'Arret de
Mort, Au moment voulu, La litterature et le droit a la mort, etc. This
doesn't mean that Blanchot didn't know Lacan before, but maybe that his own
conceptual development didn't have much to do with lacanian theory).

Thanks to all

Giuseppina Mecchia
gmecchia-AT-rikki.cc.colorado.edu