What is it about?
Reading Becket’’s early novel “Murphy" with his last prom “Comment Dire” / “What is the Word,” this paper proposes that the Beckettian text, of whatever period, can be taken as enacting a redirection from the quest for a truth beyond to making present what is produced, immediately to hand, by the very act of writing.
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Why is it important?
Taking note of Beckett's early interest in the plastic arts, this Lacanian reading demonstrates that, whether written or spoken, in the end the Beckettian text leaves us with no alternative but to confront the pure materiality of what is in excess to the word in the saying of it.
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This paper is a continuation of my engagement with fields, such as literature, which can be enlivening for my work as a Lacanian psychoanalyst.
Dr Peter Gunn
P I Jones and Associates Veterinary Surgeons
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This page is a summary of: From Murphy’s Irrational Heart to Beckett’s Worsening Word, Samuel Beckett Today / Aujourd’hui, January 2017, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/18757405-02901003.
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