Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Logic of the Cut

Authors

  • Arka Chattopadhyay
  • Arunava Banerjee Université Paris 8
  • Dipanjan Maitra State University of New York at Buffalo

Abstract

 

Psychoanalysis is a practice of speech between at least two people (which does not mean two subjects as two people can embody more than two subjectivities). The cut is an important driving force of this speech practice.

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Author Biographies

Arka Chattopadhyay

Arka Chattopadhyay is assistant professor of literary studies in the department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Gandhinagar, India. He is a B.A., M.A., MPhil in English Literature, from Presidency College and Jadavpur University, India. He has written his MPHIL thesis on Samuel Beckett and Alain Badiou and finished his PHD from Western Sydney University on Beckett and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Arka has been published in books like Deleuze and Beckett and journals like Miranda, Textual Practice, S, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Harold Pinter Review, Language and Psychoanalysis.  He has co-edited Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature and a Bengali critical compendium on the works of Nabarun Bhattacharya. Arka is the chief editor of the online literary journal Sanglap (http://sanglap-journal.in/). He has guest-edited the SBT/A issue on Samuel Beckett and the Extensions of the Mind. His first monograph, Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real is published by Bloomsbury in December, 2018. He is currently co-editing a volume of essays on and translations of Nabarun Bhattacharya, contracted by Bloomsbury for 2020.

Arunava Banerjee, Université Paris 8

 

Arunava Banerjee, is a psychoanalyst in the Lacanian orientation presently practising in New Delhi. He has a Masters in Psychoanalysis from the Department of Psychoanalysis at the Université Paris 8. He has translated for journals like Psychoanalytic Notebooks of the London Society, Lacanian Review and Scilicet. 

Dipanjan Maitra, State University of New York at Buffalo

  Dipanjan Maitra is PhD Candidate in English at State University of New York at Buffalo (UB). He is also Advanced PhD Fellow (2020-2021) at Humanities Institute, UB. His dissertation, currently entitled “Built With Glue and Clippings: Modernist Collaboration and the Press-Cutting Bureau” explores the connection between press-cutting agencies and literary modernism. He has presented on modernism, genetic criticism and psychoanalysis in India, US and Europe and his academic articles have appeared in Modernism/modernity Print Plus, James Joyce Quarterly, Genetic Joyce Studies, Joyce Studies in Italy and other peer-reviewed journals.

 

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Published

2021-11-05

How to Cite

Chattopadhyay, A., Banerjee, A. ., & Maitra, D. (2021). Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Logic of the Cut. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 4(2), 1–9. Retrieved from https://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/93

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 2 (2018): Lacanian Psychoanalysis and the Logic of the Cut

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