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...surprise of the show is Courbet's Origin of the World, 1866, by far the most transgressive image in 19th century painting. Long presumed lost, it turned up appropriately enough in the collection of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. It is a frontal view of a woman's pubes, painted with vast enthusiasm: the symbolic climax, one might say, of the series of dark caverns Courbet painted in his native countryside, The Source of the Loue, 1864. The objectivity of Courbet's work connotes a deep and sensuous love of whatever he painted. Sometimes his portraits of dead birds...
...event is a text inviting interpretation, an opportunity for writing oneself into the margins of the scene as reader-critic-author. Not that the margins are without their privileges. Blonsky observes--as no less than a cataclysm--the recent deaths of Roland Barthes, Roman Jakobson, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, whose posthumous presence in the collection reflects how the "death of the authors" has ironically inaugurated a backward-looking era for cultural literacy. At the same time, Blonsky's exclusive salon is also visited by still-vital voices such as Umberto Eco, Fredric Jameson and Julia Kristeva. The result...
DIED. Jacques Lacan, 80, controversial French psychoanalyst who in 1964 founded the Freudian School of Paris after being expelled from the International Psychoanalytical Association for unorthodox practices (his sessions with patients were sometimes as brief as five or even three minutes); of an abdominal tumor; in Paris. Lacan, who last year dissolved the Freudian School on the ground that it had fallen into "deviations and compromises," maintained that adult psychic disorders often stemmed from the learning of language-and the repression of nonverbal ideas and urges-during childhood...
...very wholeness of his self-contradictory nature that precludes our connecting him concretely to other aspects of reality, i.e. perceiving political signification. Petri uses this character, an integral part of the System, to replace the System as a whole (metonymy)-a substitution structurally comparable to fetishism in Lacan's psychopathology-instead of creating conceptual signs (metaphor) with which to analyze the power structure...
...Control Commission, to divert the commission from complaints of Viet Minh infractions in the north. Last week, in two white jeeps and a black Citroën, a team of truce officers (an Indian, a Canadian and two Communist Poles) drove into a large Roman Catholic refugee settlement at Lacan, about 30 miles northeast of Saigon. "Do you want to go back to the north?" the officers asked a crowd of the refugees. "Khong, khong!" (No, no), the refugees responded. Twelve times the commission's officers repeated their question, and twelve times got the same answer...