Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:20:28 +0300
Subject: Re: Bhabha's suffixes


on 7/17/00 9:55 AM, Florence Libert at Florence.Libert-AT-wanadoo.fr wrote:

>> Bhabha borrows -ity from Lacan (see 'Aggressivity in Psychoanalysis',
>> _Ecrits_), 
> 
> Agressivite' (with an accute accent) is the word Lacan uses.
> Florence

No ... but we're probably talking at cross-purposes. The word Lacan uses in
'Aggressivity in psychoanalysis' is 'aggressivity'. This is the text I was
citing. It appears in Alan Sheridan's translation of _Ecrits_ (Tavistock
Pubs., London: 1977). I say 'Lacan uses ...' (and not 'Sheridan uses ...')
because the text was 'authorised' by Lacan .... Bhabha only cites Lacan's
work in English translations.

The less distracting, if equally banal, point is that Bhabha's terms can
have authoritative sources in back of them; they are not just opaque
reworkings of standardised language, or sneaky cover-ups for a lack of
substantive meaning, or a dense jargon designed to confound and infuriate.
Nearly, but not quite ...

p 
> 
> 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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