Concentric: Studies in English Literature and Linguistics

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    (英語學系, 2019-03-??) Ching-ying Hsu
    Situated at the intersection of Lacan, Badiou, and Joyce, this essay interpretsJoyce’s modern version of “Penelope” as a sinthomatic writing, finding thisfemale countersign to be problematic by way of an ethical evaluation of thesinthome as a (singularized) sexual relation and an investigation of Joyce’sbelief in his sinthome. Firstly, I fully acknowledge the merit of sinthomaticeroticism as a repairment of the non- existence of sexual relation in its capacityof maintaining the recognition of the non-existence of the Other and ofauthoring and forging one’s own sexual rapport through the self-inventedsavoir-faire of one’s jouissance. Molly as Bloom’s sinthome-partner isindispensable in offering her participation in the construction of(inter)sinthomatic eroticism. However, upon closer scrutiny, the merits of thisversion of eroticism appear quite limited, for Joyce’s conservative presentationstays near to the cultural symptoms of his time, and, moreover, Joyce’s beliefin his sinthome functions similarly with normal neurotics’ symptoms and lackstruly intersubjective reciprocity. Secondly, my ethical reading takes account ofthe productive tension between “sinthomatic eroticism” and love. I invoke bothLacan’s idea of love as “compensation” of the non-existence of sexualrelationship, and (beyond Lacan) Badiou’s work on love as a way of creativelycarving out what I term “the ethical space of love” as a space (not entirelydisengaged from but) distinct from the psychoanalytic domain of sexual desiresor eros. By doing so, I explore the relatively uncharted ground of thetheorization of true love.
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    (英語學系, 2015-05-??) Chien-heng Wu
    This paper discusses the modalities of emancipation in contemporary theoretical discourses and shows that the persistent critique of the figure of the Two is problematic because it relies on a faulty assumption that a dualistic structure is necessarily metaphysical and therefore unfitting for the discourse of emancipation. My analysis draws on the works of Alain Badiou and Frantz Fanon in hopes of demonstrating the possibility of a non-metaphysical framing of resistance in terms of the Two. Both Badiou and Fanon affirm the prescriptive function of politics and insist that genuine change or decolonization must be of the order of production. For both, the prescriptive function of politics is structured in binary terms, except that its binarism is figured as a subjective Two rather than an objective Two. In this newly configured space of prescriptive politics, political struggle is able to redetermine the initial determination, thereby changing the representational regime governing the world. In the final analysis, to avoid the political ineffectiveness intrinsic to the action/reaction model of resistance, their solution is not to invent a third term but to think the beyond from within theTwo, provided that this Two is radically reconceptualized as the subjective Two.
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    (英語學系, 2015-05-??) Chien-heng Wu
    This paper discusses the modalities of emancipation in contemporary theoretical discourses and shows that the persistent critique of the figure of the Two is problematic because it relies on a faulty assumption that a dualistic structure is necessarily metaphysical and therefore unfitting for the discourse of emancipation. My analysis draws on the works of Alain Badiou and Frantz Fanon in hopes of demonstrating the possibility of a non-metaphysical framing of resistance in terms of the Two. Both Badiou and Fanon affirm the prescriptive function of politics and insist that genuine change or decolonization must be of the order of production. For both, the prescriptive function of politics is structured in binary terms, except that its binarism is figured as a subjective Two rather than an objective Two. In this newly configured space of prescriptive politics, political struggle is able to redetermine the initial determination, thereby changing the representational regime governing the world. In the final analysis, to avoid the political ineffectiveness intrinsic to the action/reaction model of resistance, their solution is not to invent a third term but to think the beyond from within theTwo, provided that this Two is radically reconceptualized as the subjective Two.