INDEX

Aesop

affect: cognition and, displacement of

Alcibiades

alienation

allegory

alterity: experience and, friendship and, of kidney stone, in Martin Guerre, masks and, miracles and, openness to, self-identity and, sexuality and, singularity and, through imagination, universal diversity and, valences of future and, writerly act and, See also difference; otherness

androcentric tradition

anxiety

“The Anxiety of Death: Narrative and Subjectivity in ‘De la diversion{sqtœ, ”

Apollo

Apologie (Montaigne)

Apology (Plato)

aporia: Being and, of cognitive engendering, of death, of experience, of law, of self-portraiture, of time

Apories (Derrida)

Areopagites

Ariosto

Aristophanes

Aristotle: on friendship, human nature and, imagination and, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, . See also classical thought; philosophy

Ars poetica (Horace)

art

Assyrian law

Atalanta

Athenians

Au lecteur (Montaigne)

aurality

authority: as artificially created, of authorship, of intellect, of medical arts, of past texts, patrimony and, rule of law and

authorship. See writerly act

balance: identity and, writing and

Barthes, Roland

Being: becoming and, causality of, as corporeal, imagination and, physiognomy and, self-identity and, temporality and, visualization and, See also ontology

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud)

Blanchot, Maurice

Bloom, Harold

Boaistuau, Pierre

Boase, Alan

Bodin, Jean

Bordeaux Exemplar

borrowing

boundaries: of biology, of death, to identity, of legal authority, of philosophical language, of reality, of space

Bradamente (Ariosto)

Brody, Jules

brotherhood. See fraternity

Brutus

Burgundy, duke of

Butler, Judith

cadere (to fall)

Caesar, Julius

Canius, Julius

Cassius

Cato

Catullus

causality

Céard, Jean

Chassaigne, Françoise de la. See Montaigne, Madame de

chimeras

Christianity

Chrysippus

Cicero

Cicero (Montaigne)

classical thought, See also Aristotle; Plato; Seneca; Socrates; Stoics

cognition: affect and, causality and, control of, imagination and, kinetic energy of, See also knowledge

Comical Prattlers (Montaigne)

“Comical Prattlers” (Montaigne)

Commines, Philippe de

communication

community. See fraternity

Compagnon, Antoine

Conley, Tom

consciousness. See unconsciousness

consubstantiality

contingency

corpus: as cadaver, degradation of, literary cannibalism of

text as

Cotgrave, Randle

Cottrell, Robert D

credit

cripples, See alsodeformity; grotesques; lameness; monsters

danse macabre,

Davis, Natalie Zemon

De Anima (Aristotle)

death: aporia of, boundaries of, De l’exercitation and, fear of, of La Boétie, practice for, simulation of, Socrates and, transcendence over

“Death Sentences, ”

de Coras, Jean

Defaux, Gérard

deformity: of body, of text, See also cripples; grotesques;lameness; monstersde Gournay, Marie, as covenant daughter, as editor of Essays, as executrix, literary revisionism of, as Montaigne’s double

Delacompté, Jean-Michel

De la demonomanie des sorciers (Bodin)

De la diversion (Montaigne)

De l’affection des peres aux enfans (Montaigne)

De la force de l’imagination (Montaigne)

De l’amitié (Montaigne)

De la phisionomie (Montaigne)

De la praesumption (Montaigne), de La Primaudaye, Pierre

De la resemblance des enfans aux peres (Montaigne)

De la servitude volontaire (La Boé-tie)

De la vanité (Montaigne)

Deleuze, Gilles

De l’exercitation (Montaigne)

De l’experience (Montaigne)

De l’institution des enfans (Montaigne)

De l’oisiveté (Montaigne)

De mesnager sa volonté (Montaigne)

demonology

Derrida, Jacques

“Donner La Mort” and

on Montaigne

Des boiteux (Montaigne), desire: desiring subject and, diversion of, as engendering, erotic energy of, female, regulation of subjectivity and, violence of, of writerly act, See also passion; sexuality

Des monstres et des prodiges (Paré)

desreglement (unruliness)

detour

dévoilement (unveiling)

dialogic encounter

Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (Cotgrave)

Dictionnaire de la langue française (Huguet)

difference: imagination and, nature and, transcendence of, See also alterity; diversity; otherness

digressio,

displacement: through mastery, through rhetoric

diversion: De la diversion and, writing as

diversity: alterity and, of experience, of identity, of nature

Donner La Mort (Derrida), doubling: de Gournay and, as mirror, of writerly act

dreaming, See also sleep

Du dementir (Montaigne)

D’un enfant monstrueux (Montaigne)

Du repentir (Montaigne)

Du Tilh, Arnaud

ego

Emerson

Ralph Waldo

Empiricus, Sextus

encryption

Epicurus

epistemology: of author/text, of classical thought, ontology and, signifying and, visualization and

Epistles (Horace)

equality

Eros,

erotic energy

esprit de geometrie,

essai (trial; balance)

essai (try)

Essays (Montaigne):addenda to edition of, as act of mourning, anachronistic reading of, anality in, as archive, Bordeaux edition of, classical influence on, confessional nature of, de Gournay and, as, logocentric, metaphors in, structure of

Estates General

ethics, alterity and, classical philosophy and, ethos (character) and, of friendship, morality and

“Excavating Montaigne: The Essayist on Trial, ”

exemplarity, of de Gournay, of monstrous, narrative self and, of Socrates

experience: aporia of, of death, De l’experience and, diversity of, of divinity, identity and, imagination and, openness to, otherness and, pleasure and, reason and

“Extraict d’une lettre” (Montaigne)

Eyquem, Pierre

fantasy: imagination and, monsters of

fear, of death, of monstrous

female desire

Foix, Louis de, comte de Guerson

Foucault, Michel, Frame, Donald

fraternity, . See also friendship

freedom

Freud and the Poetic Sublime (Bloom)

Freud, Sigmund, ego and, repression and, See also psychoanalysis

Friedrich, Hugo

friendship: communion and, gender and, homosocial nature of, L’amitié and, reciprocity in, See also fraternity

Gasché, Rudolph

gaze: object of, of viewer, See also visualization

gender: biology as, disfigurement and, identity and, Montaigne’s construction of, otherness and, sex-change operations and, See also sexuality

geneological fatality

Germaine, Marie

Goulard, Simon

Gray, Floyd

Greeks, See also Aristotle; classical thought; Plato; Socrates; Stoics

Greenblatt, Stephen

Gregory XIII

grotesques, See also deformity; monsters

Guerre, Martin

Hamlet (Shakespeare)

Hamodius

hauntology

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm

Heidegger, Martin

heredity. See inheritance; patrimony

hermeneutics: anachronistic reading and, legal intepretation and, textual authority and, visualization and

Himbercourt, Sieur de

Hippomenes

Histoire des prodiges (Boaistuau)

Homer

homosexuality

Hope, Trevor

Horace

Huguenots

Huguet, Edmond

hyperbole

identity: balance and, boundaries to, diversity within, of friendship, gender and, interiority and, self-knowledge and, subjectivity and, through experience, See also self-portraiture

ignorance

Iliad (Homer)

imagination: anthropomorphy and, biological limits and, generative force of, mind over matter and, nature of, psychic space for, reason and, sensation and, as theater, violence and, See also mind’s, eye; mind’s I

impotence

inheritance: of future readers

heredity and, See also patrimony

interiority

interpretation: de Gournay and, meaning and, as philosophical

intertextuality

introjection

Jeanneret, Michel

Jenny, Laurent, Jerusalem Delivered (Tasso)

judgment: of de Gournay, in Guerre case, the law and, quality;reason and

justice

Juvenal

kinetic energy: of desiring subject, of writerly act

knowledge: abuse of, desiring subject and, limits of, of science, wisdom and, See also cognition; self-examination

La Boétie, Etienne de: death of, literary legacy of, Montaigne and

Lacan, Jacques, See also psychoanalysis

La Charité, Raymond

Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe

Laelius de Amicitia (Cicero)

Laertius, Diogenes

lameness, . See also cripples; deformity

Langer, Ulrich

language: of borrowing, of credit, engendering of, euphemism and, hyperbole and, kinetic force of, of philosophy, of poetry, of rhetoric, of writerly self

Laplanche, Jean

La Primaudaye, Pierre

Laqueur, Thomas

La Servitude volontaire (La Boétie). See De la servitude volontaire

Le Contre Un,

libidinal energy: celibacy and, desiring subject and, gender and, impotence and

Lipsius, Justus

literary cannibalism

logic

Logos

Lucan

Lucretius

Lycurgus

Lyons, John D.

Lysias

magical thinking: de Gournay and

imagination and

of medical arts

of mind’s desire

Making Sex (Laqueur)

Martial

masculinity: authority of, biology of, emasculation and, homosexuality and, phallic imagery and, masochism

mastery: meaning and, of self, simulation of

Mathieu-Castellani, Gisèle

McKinley, Mary B.

meaning: contingencies and, interpretation and, mastery and, in metaphysics, performance and, signification as

medical arts

Meijer, Marianne S

Mémoires (Commines)

Memorabilia (Xenophon)

memories: as engendering language, reader as guardian of, of writerly self

Meniceus

metamorphoses: de Gournay and, intertextuality and, sexuality and

Metamorphoses (Ovid)

metaphor

Metaphysics (Aristotle)

metonomy

mimesis, in Aristotle, in Montaigne, Neoplatonic concept of, in Virgil

mimicry. See mimesis

mind’s energy

mind’s eye

mind’s I

Minos

miracles

mirror: doubling and, otherness in, of writing subject

mise-en-scène,

monere (to portend)

monsters: deformity and, demonization of, Des boiteux and, theater of imagination and, as unnatural,. See also cripples; deformity; grotesques

“Monster Theory, ”

monstres fantasques,

monstrum,

Montaigne, Léonor de

Montaigne, Madame de

Montaigne, Michel de: arrière boutique of, fall from a horse, ; La Boétie and, literary legacy of, literary revisionism of, metaphor of kidney stone and, monster theory of, philosophical theory of, physiognomy of, theoretical strategy of

“Montaigne on Horseback, or the Simulation of Death, ”

“Montaigne’s Fantastic Monsters, ”

“Montaigne’s Fraternity: La Boétieon Trial, ”

“Montaigne’s Monstrous Confession” (Regosin)

morality: ethics and, ;fiction and, laws of patrimony and, nature and

mourning: De l’amitié and, as performance, preclusion of, through writerly act

movement: contingencies of, of diversion, of imagination, as passage, of soul, steps as, temporality and

Nancy, Jean-Luc

narcissism: alterity and, as monstrous, repression of, self-knowledge and, of Socrates, writerly act as, See also vanity

narrative self: doubling of, exemplary other and, as masked, matter of the book and, psyche of, . See also self-examination; writerly act; writing

nature: diversity within, engendering process in, as mauvais mere, miracles and, scientific knowledge and

La Nature et les prodiges (Céard)

nature, human: cultural expectations and, diversity of, free will and, morality and, ; Socratic ideal of

necrophilia,

Neoplatonism

Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)

Nietzsche, Friedrich

omnipotence: of female, paternity and, of thought

ontology: epistemology and, regimes of truth and, and representations of self, void within, . See also Being

otherness: exemplarity and, experience of, gender and, as mirrored

of reality, self-identity and, Socrates and, See also alterity; difference

Outlines of Scepticism (Empiricus)

Ovid

Pallas Athena

Paré, Ambroise

parrhesia,

Pascal, Blaise

passage: friendship as, metaphor of kidney stone and, movement and, through death, passion, .See also desire

paternity

patriarchy

patrimony

performance: of de Gournay, ethical act and, friendship and, of gender, identity and, meaning and, of mind’s I, mourning as, of rhetoric, theater as, writerly act as

Persius (Montaigne)

Petronius

phantasma,

philia,

Phillips, Adam

“Philosophical Impostures, ”

philosophy: classical, language of, of Montaigne, . See also Aristotle; classical thought; Plato; Seneca; Socrates; Stoics

phisionomies,

physiognomy

physis (nature)

Plato, Neoplatonism and, Republic, on Socrates, ; Symposium, . See also classical thought; philosophy; Socrates

pleasure: experience of, sexuality and, suffering and

Pliny

poetics

polis,

politics, Politics (Aristotle)

Politiques de l’amitié (Derrida)

Pontalis, J. B.

positivism

posterity, See also inheritance

Préface (edition)

presumption: De la praesumption and, of intellect

Priapus

Protestants

Proust, Marcel

psychic reality

psychic space

psychoanalysis: interpretation and, introjection and, phallic images in, repression and, subjectivity and, talking cure and, visualization and, . See also Freud, Sigmund; Lacan, Jacques; self-examination

psychology

Quartillia

Que le goust des biens… . (Montaigne)

Que philosopher c’est apprendre à mourir (Montaigne)

Quint, David

Rabelais

reading act: as anachronistic, of de Gournay, experience of, interpretation and, visualization and

reality: boundaries of, otherness and, simulation of, visualization and

reason: human experience and, imagination and, as innate, logic and, miracles and

record

Reeser, Todd

reflexivity

register

Regosin, Richard, on de Gournay, on Montaigne’s monster

religion

Renaissance texts

repetition

“Representing the Monster, ”

repression

Republic (Plato)

resurrection

rhetoric: detours and, female voice and, language and, as performance, prostheses of, ruse of, of self portraiture

Richeome, Louis

Rigolot, François

“Romancing the Stone, ”

Sainte-Beuve, Charles-Augustine

Sankovitch, Tilde A.

Satires (Juvenal)

Satyricon (Petronius)

Sayce, Richard

scientific knowledge

seeing. See visualization

self-examination: mastery and, self-knowledge and, self-reflexivity and, writerly space of, . See also psychoanalysis

self-portraiture: alterity and, death and, monstrousness and, ; Montaigne and, narrative performance of, .See also identity

self-reflection. See self-examination

Seminar (Lacan)

Seneca, See also classical thought; philosophy; Stoics sensations: biology and, cognition and

servitude

sexuality: celibacy and, character of Quartillia and, erotic pleasure and, female desire and, homosexuality and, in “Martin Guerre, ”monster theory and, oedipal drama of, as work of art, See also desire; gender

Shakespeare, William

Siebers, Tobin

signification: meaning and, as phallic, hrough rhetoric

Silverman, Kaja

simulation: of authentic self, of death, of dialogic encounter, mastery and, of monstrous, as simulacrum, singularity

skepticism

sleep, See also dreaming

socialization. See fraternity

Socrates: “beautiful ones” of, death and, ; docta ignorantia of, as exemplum , as grotesque, ideal model of,; Montaigne and, trial of

“The Socratic Makeover, ”

sodomy

Solon

Sophia

sorcery. See witchcraft

spectacle: of imaginative engendering, of monstrous, vision and

Stein, Gertrude

steps

Stoics, See also classical thought; philosophy; Seneca

strategy: imagination and, of Montaigne’s theory

subjectivity: identity and, individual and, psychoanalysis and

suffering: of anticipatory death, diversion from, pleasure and

supernatural, Sur des vers de Virgile (Montaigne)

Symposium (Plato)

talisman

Tasso

temporality: Being and, calendar reform and, death’s lack of, ideality of the present and, identity and, pleasure of moment and

testimony, . See also witness

Tetel, Marcel

theater: imagination and

as performative

Thibaudet, Albert

Thucydides

tranquillity: in face of death, of psyche

transcendence: of biological boundaries, of difference, over death, through imagination, through writerly act

transfiguration. See metamorphoses

transformation: death and, gender and sex change, to monstrous, through writerly, act

transvestism

trickery. See rhetoric: ruse of

Trois discours pour la religion catholique (Richeome)

truth

Tusculans

tyranny

Ulysses

unconsciousness

utopia

vanity, See also narcissism Venus

Vibius, Gallus

violence

Virgil

virility. See masculinity

visualization: Being and, cognition and, ; De la phisionomie and, mirror vision and, ; Plato’s theory of, reality and, revisionary practice and, as sight and re-cite, transparency and, as vision, witnessing and,. See also gaze; mind’s eye; mind’s I

Winnicot, D. W.

wisdom

witchcraft

witness: to Montaigne’s Logos, of narrative self, ; Socrates and, unreliability of, visualization and

writerly act: authenticity of, consubstantiality and, as decentered, doubling and, future and, kinetic force of, logic of, teleological frame of, textual space of, transcendence and, . See also narrative self; writing

writing: alterity and, as cathartic, digression and, as diversion, ;as engendering, as formative, as imaginative representation, as impression, as mourning, as record, as register, as therapeutic, . See also narrative self; writerly act

Xenophon

Zalloua

Zizek, Slavoj