Beckett, Lacan, and the Voice

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Samuel Beckett in Company: Beckett and Relation: A Preface to the Series; Bibliography; Table of contents; Abbreviations and editions used for works by Beckett; Acknowledgements; Lacan with Beckett: Departures; The Voices of Samuel Beckett: Introduction and First Approaches; Listening; A Complex Field; Lacan and the Voice: A Preliminary Overview; Lacan and Beckett: Affinities?; The Limits of Certain Uses of Lacan; 'Jouissance': a Factor of 'Empêchement'; Further Developments Referring to Lacan: A Change of Orientation; Psychoanalysis, Beckett and the Voice: An Outline of Concepts. Samuel Beckett in Company: Beckett and Relation: A Preface to the Series Bibliography Table of contents Abbreviations and editions used for works by Beckett Acknowledgements Lacan with Beckett: Departures The Voices of Samuel Beckett: Introduction and First Approaches Listening A Complex Field Lacan and the Voice: A Preliminary Overview Lacan and Beckett: Affinities? The Limits of Certain Uses of Lacan 'Jouissance': a Factor of 'Empêchement' Further Developments Referring to Lacan: A Change of Orientation Psychoanalysis, Beckett and the Voice: An Outline of Concepts. Structure of Our StudyI -- The Voice and Its Structure Initial Concepts Voice and Retroaction of the Signifier The 'Buffering' Effect of the Paternal Metaphor 'Foreclosure' of the Paternal Metaphor The Model of the 'Pastout' or the 'Unlimited' An 'Unborn' Subject An Impassive Mother A Nonexistent Other The Voice: Real and 'Lalangue' The Hallucinated Voice II -- Disjunction of Pronouns Metaphorical Formation of the 'I' 'I' and the Drive: 'Not I' Staging the 'He': 'A Piece of Monologue' III. -- Continuous, Interrupted, Responses 1. The Continuous 2. Interruption 3. Inscription. 4. Image and ReadingIV -- Exteriority and Artifice 1. The Voice of the Machine 2. Discursive Apparatus Singularity of the Voice: A Conclusion Bibliography Index.