The Library
How it is again : regression as renewal, unpleasure as compensation
Tools
Katz, Daniel (2017) How it is again : regression as renewal, unpleasure as compensation. Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui, 29 (1). pp. 9-21. doi:10.1163/18757405-02901002 ISSN 0927-3131.
|
PDF
WRAP-how-again-regression-renewal-unpleasure-compensation-Katz-2017.pdf - Accepted Version - Requires a PDF viewer. Download (527Kb) | Preview |
Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1163/18757405-02901002
Abstract
This essay examines How It Is in the context of Beckett’s personal creative crisis of the late fifties from which it arose, and also that of his psychoanalysis with Bion, 20 years earlier. Looking at How It Is as a work that tends to collapse the opposition between regression and renewal, the essay also examines the role of unpleasure in the text, as a complication of the oft noted sadism. Finally, the work’s parodic pedagogic episodes of “training” are compared to similar motifs in Murphy and Molloy, in light of Laplanche’s theory of seduction.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation, Psychoanalysis, Bion, Wilfred R. (Wilfred Ruprecht), 1897-1979 | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd'hui | ||||||
Publisher: | Brill | ||||||
ISSN: | 0927-3131 | ||||||
Official Date: | 1 January 2017 | ||||||
Dates: |
|
||||||
Volume: | 29 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 9-21 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1163/18757405-02901002 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 15 December 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 1 January 2020 | ||||||
Related URLs: |
Request changes or add full text files to a record
Repository staff actions (login required)
View Item |
Downloads
Downloads per month over past year