What is it about?
Doctor Clérambault took hundreds of pictures of local people in Morocco. The writer M.R.James described a mysterious draped body in “Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”.
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Why is it important?
The article demonstrates that the fold stands in both cases for the desire for the Other.
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The article investigates the manner in which the French psychiatrist exploited his passion in the innumerable photographs he took in Morocco and in which the English philologist exorcised his fear in fiction, especially in one of his best-known short stories, “Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad”.
Dr Luminita Elena Turcu
Universitatea Stefan cel Mare din Suceava
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This page is a summary of: “A Person Not In The Story”: Clérambault’s And M. R. James’s Textile/Textual Folds, Messages Sages and Ages, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/msas-2015-0012.
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