File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2000/postcolonial.0007, message 136


Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 23:55:20 -0700
Subject: Re: Bhabha's suffixes
From: Florence Libert <Florence.Libert-AT-wanadoo.fr>


> Bhabha borrows -ity from Lacan (see 'Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis',
> _Ecrits_), 

French does not have an equivalent for the -ness suffix.
Agressivite' (with an accute accent) is the word Lacan uses.
Florence

piers m smith at piers-AT-kuc01.kuniv.edu.kw:
> -ity, like other Latin formulations, has a monopoly on abstraction ...
> Aggressiveness is in the mire, with the rest of the pre-classical grapplers.
> An aggressive person may aspire to the condition/state/psychic remoteness of
> aggressivity, but he will do better to wrestle with his peers in the
> pre-textual mud.
> 
> Bhabha borrows -ity from Lacan (see 'Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis',
> _Ecrits_), who worked it up from Freud to analyse the relation between
> aggressive intentional-ity, castration and death. Lacan's account makes a
> nice distinction between aggression and aggressivity .... It may also help
> in making (non)sense of B's other -ities ...;)
> 
> piers smith  



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