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 --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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