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When Woolf writes about Mr. Ramsay wanting Mrs. Ramsay to say "I love you" but she cannot say it for it feels like a sentiment that is choked deep in her throat that will not allow itself to come out.


This is masterful in writing. What is desired is not a reality for either character which in turn mimics real life. Is our desire for someone else to love us solely about ourselves?

I cannot wait to set aside chunks of this text to explore language's relationship to trauma with my students.

The moment at the Ramsays' dinner is so impactful. I'm very interested in Woolf's contribution to the modernist literary movement of so much writing about what people think and feel. And what makes it real is that they exist in this world and structure where they cannot say it...

Critical race interrogation with a pulse, this cannot be put down.

"The Other is the one-missing."
I love how Lacan can make something so ambiguous (and possibly nonsensical) into something so profound and convincing.

I'm floored and confused at the idea that physical sex comes at the price of sexuality's inability to exist in writing. Jouissance is therefore marked by this failure that also comes at the price of reproduction (babies)

Still not entirely clear on what's being said ...
While reading I did raise the question of the letter being the semblance of knowledge!

I'm getting very frustrated at how self-referential Lacan is "speaking" without detailing ANYTHING he's talking about.
What the fuck is a one? Seriously, what the fuck is it?
In addition, how does any academic properly use jouissance without making a new meaning out of it? I

OH MY GOD. I NEED TO FINISH THIS BOOK. Has anyone else's progress stalled near the ending of this book???

Foucault's anecdote about the chain-gang redeems itself following the painstaking speed of re telling of the prison.

I find myself constantly toggling between being swept away by Foucault's beautiful language in describing panopticism while at the same time ripping my hair out over this text's repetition of its dissection of the panopticon itself ....

I can see why Lacan's psycholinguistics os so prevalent in contemporary feminist scholarship! I want to cross out the word woman in all my writing just to talk about its jouissance.

https://medium.com/@lukewidlund/foers...