Examen corrigé Université de Montréal Thèse numérique Papyrus ...

8a series of philosophical/existential questions: what happened? What is the Thing that is missed?Why is the encounter always already missed? What does this always already constitute?It now remains to explain the ways in which my analysis will develop the work oftheorists addressing the concept of the missed encounter. A concise methodological presentationis in order at this point. Although I will be relying widely on psychoanalytic concepts developedby Freud and Lacan (and their disciples), my approach touches on other psychoanalytic modelsincluding, but not limited to, Otto Rank, Melanie Klein, Abraham and Torok, Julia Kristeva,Cathy Caruth, and Fanti (with his micropsychoanalytic approach to the void). I have extensiverecourse to Žižek (especially with regard to his study and application of Lacanian concepts topopular culture and to the modern political social sphere). I must emphasize that my way ofproceedingand the déroulement of the argument that followsis highly influenced not merelyby the arguments, but also by the organization, structure, and stylistics of European theory in thewake of Lacan, as opposed to the more linear and straightforwardly “expository” models ofAmerican writing. Drawing extensively on French/European models of theoretical discourses,which are exploratory, provocative, and less expository, my dissertation, structured around anecessary argumentative circularity and accumulation, offers an alternative theorization of themissed encounter, bringing together a kind of deconstructive critique of narrative withmultifaceted psychoanalytic models from Freud, Lacan, and Jung all the way through Abrahamand Torok to Kristeva and Kathy Caruth. For the psychoanalytic tradition, the missed encounter,in its various configurations, is a complex problem, not an easy solution, perhaps not even aproblem leading to symbolization. The missed encounter, trauma, or the failure of significationand representation, are, moreover, not discrete or separable, in nineteenth-century American