INDEX

Abel, Karl

Abjection

Act

Action

Actor

Adherence

Adventures of Telemachus, The (Aragon)

Aeschylus

Aesthetics

Agamben, Giorgio

Agent of history

Age of Louis XIV, The (Voltaire)

Algerian War

Alterity

Always-already-there

Amorous relationship

Analyst

Analytical space

Anamnesis

Andrieu, Louis

Anicet ou le Panorama (Aragon)

Antichrist

Anti-Oedipus (Deleuze and Guattari)

“Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words The” (Freud)

Anzieu, Didier

Aragon, Elsa

Aragon, Louis; biography; Breton, pact with; Communist Party and; Stalinism and; Works: The Adventures of Telemachus; Anicet; Blanche ou l’oubli; Le Cahier noir; Défense de l’infini; Feu de joie; Irene’s Cunt; The Libertine; “Maladroit,”; Oeuvres croisées; Paris Peasant; “Révélations sensationnelles,”; Treatise on Style; “Très tard que jamais,”; Les Voyageurs de l’impériale

Archaism

Arendt, Hannah

Aristotle

Aron, Raymond

Art; father of prehistory and; installations; rejection of; as revolt; as sacred

Artaud, Antonin

Assimilation-hominization

Atheism; as pleasure of texts

Athenäum

A-thought

Aulagnier, Piera

Authority

Autoeroticism

Axelos, Kostas

 

Balzac, Honoré de

Barthes, Roland; Blanchot’s influence on; criticism, view of; meaning, view of; Sartre’s influence on; subjectivism and; Works: Camera Lucida; Critical Essays; Criticism and Truth; Michelet; Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes; S/Z; Writing Degree Zero

Bataille, Georges

Baudelaire, Charles

Beauty

Beauvoir, Simone de

Being; consciousness vs.; nausea as border of; rejection of other; speaking being; writing and. See also Other

Being and Nothingness (Sartre)

Being and Time (Heidegger)

Being-as-other

Being-for-the-other

Being-in-the-world

Being-with

Benveniste, Emile

Bèze, Théodore

Binary logic

Binswanger, Ludwig

Biology

Bion, Wilfred Ruprecht

Bisexuality; Oedipus2; as resolution of masochism

Blanche ou l’oubli (Aragon)

Blanchot, Maurice

Body, language and

Borders

Boundaries, taint and

Bourgeois, Louise

Bourgeoisie

Breton, André; Aragon’s pact with; Freud, meeting with; Works: Communicating Vessels; Nadja; Notes sur la poésie; Soluble Fish

Brochier, Jean-Jacques

Bulimia

 

Cahier noir, Le (Aragon)

Calvin, John

Camera Lucida (Barthes)

Camus, Albert

Castration complex

Catholicism

Cause du peuple, La

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand

Chants de Maldoror, Les (Lautréamont)

Characters as spokespeople; function

Christianity

City of Ends

Clarté

Classical writing

Classicism

Claudel, Paul

Clément, Catherine

Closed/open complexes

Cocteau, Jean

Coercion

Cogito

Cognitivism

Communicating Vessels (Breton)

Communication

Communications

Communism. See also Stalinism

Communist Party

Comte, Auguste

Conscious: linguistic conscious; unconscious, domination of

Consciousness; bourgeois consciousness; knowledge and; plurality of

“Constructions in Analysis” (Freud)

Contat, Michel

Contradiction

“Contributions to the Psychology of Love” (Freud)

Corneille, Pierre

Corradini, Antonio

Countertransference

Critical Essays (Barthes)

Criticism

Criticism and Truth (Barthes)

Critique of Dialectical Reason (Sartre)

Culture of revolt

Cunard, Nancy

 

Dadaism

Dasein

Death drive

Debord, Guy

Decottignies, Jean

Défense de l’infini, La (Aragon)

Defilement

Deleuze, Gilles

Demystification

Depressive phase

Derrida, Jacques

Derval, Blanche

Desacralization

Descartes, René

Desire

Détraquées, Les

Deutsch, Helene

Devil and the Good Lord, The (Sartre)

Dialectical materialism

Diaries (Sartre)

Différance

Dionysian mysteries

Discourse on the Worship of Priapus and Its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients, A (Knight)

“Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex The” (Freud)

Divinités génératrices, Les (Dulaure)

Douglas, Mary

Dreams

Drieu La Rochelle

Drive; death drive; erotic drive

Dualism

Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine

Dumas, Alexandre

Dumézil, Georges

Dutourd, Jean

 

Ecole des Hautes Etudes

Écriture

Ego; as subject

Ego and the Id, The (Freud)

Ego-skin

Einfühlung (identification)

Electra (Aeschylus)

Energy

Engagement

Ephemeral, theme of

Erotic drive

Eroticism

Ethic of language

“L’étonnant couple Moutonnet” (Villiers)

Etymology

Euphoria

European Economic Community

Evil; acting and; oedipal revolt and

Evolution

Exclusion, feeling of

Existence

Existentialism

Expenditure

Experience

L’Express

Extrapsychical

 

Failure

False self

Falsification

Fascination

Father; identification with; phallic monism and; presence and death of; separability of. See also Oedipus complex

Father of prehistory

Female Sexuality (Freud)

Feminine; cult of; homosexuality; oedipal renunciation of; phallus and; surrealism and See also Sexuality

Feminism

Femmes (Sollers)

Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe

Fetishism

Feu de joie (Aragon)

Figaro littéraire

Fils de Freud sont fatigués, Les (Clément)

Fish imagery

Flaubert, Gustave

Flies, The (Sartre)

Food taboos

Forest, Philippe

For-itself

Form, morality of

Formalism

Foundations

Free association; dangers and benefits

Freedom; negativity and; oedipus complex and; writing and

French language

French literature. See also Aragon Louis; Rimbaud, Arthur; individual authors

French Revolution

“French Woman, The” (Aragon)

Freud, Sigmund: aphasia, work on; on bisexuality; Breton, meeting with; dualism and; on oedipus complex; on Oedipus Rex; revolt and; on sublimation; on unconscious; World War I and; Works The Interpretation of Dreams; “The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words,”; “Constructions in Analysis,”; “Contributions to the Psychology of Love,”; “The Dissolution of the Oedipus Complex,”; The Ego and the Id; Female Sexuality; “Infantile Genital Organization,”; Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious; “Little Hans,”; Metapsychology; “Mourning and Melancholia,”; “Negation,”; On Aphasia; An Outline of Psycho-Analysis; “Project for a Scientific Psychology,”; Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality; Totem and Taboo; “The Wolf Man,”. See also Language; Oedipus complex; Optimistic model; Signifiance

Fundamentalism

 

Gallimard, Gaston

Games; truth and

Gandharva

Generational difference

Genet, Jean

German Occupation

God

Greece

Greek Communist Party

Green, André

Guattari, Félix

Guilt

 

Haacke, Hans

Hallucinations

Happiness/unhappiness

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Heidegger, Martin

Heterogeneity

History

Hominization

Homosexuality; feminine. See also Bisexuality

Horse metaphor

Human Condition, The (Arendt)

Human rights

Humor

Husserl, Edmund

Hysteria

 

Id

Identification

Identity; taint and; as trap

Ideologies

Illegitimacy

Illuminations (Rimbaud)

Illusion

Image. See also Spectacle

Imaginary

Immanence

Immaturity

Impossible

Imposture

Incarnation

Incest taboo

Inclusion

Individual; patrimonial; Sartrean. See also Subjectivity

Individuation

Indo-European pantheon

Infantile genital organization; renunciation of

“Infantile Genital Organization” (Freud)

Infiniteness/infinity

Installations

Intellectuals

Intermediary position of language

Interpretation; revolt and

Interpretation of Dreams, The (Freud)

Irene’s Cunt (Aragon); true lies in

Irony

 

Jeanson, Francis

Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious (Freud)

Jouissance; of meaning; writing as

Joyce, James

 

Kairos

Kant, Immanuel

Kean (Dumas)

Kean (Sartre)

Klein, Melanie

Knight, Richard

Knowledge; cogito

 

Lacan, Jacques; on father; incest, view of; language and; object and; optimistic model and; phallus, view of; sexuality view of

Lalangue

Language; as asymptotic; development of; ethic of; French; heterogeneity of; intermediary role; layered conception; as mode of writing; as negativity; optimistic model; pleasure and; preconscious and; primal language; psychoanalytical model; signifiance model; as source of errors; structure of; writing vs. See also Linguistics; Narration; Semiology; Writing

Latency period

Latin

Laurent, Jacques

Lautréamont, le Comte de

Law; girl’s relationship to; separability of

Legal system

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

Lévy, Bernard-Henri

Liability

Libertine, The (Aragon)

Libido

Life of the Mind, The (Arendt)

Linguisterie

Linguistic conscious

Linguistics. See also Language; Semiology; Signifiance

Literature: consciousness and; encounter with the impossible; limits of; as sacred; Sartre’s view

Litotes

Littérature

“Little Hans” (Freud)

“Lives” (Rimbaud)

Logic: binary; of revolt

Logos

Loss

Love-object

Loyola, Ignatius

Lying

Lyricism

 

“Maladroit” (Aragon)

Mallarmé, Stéphane

Marxism

Massillon, Jean-Baptiste

Maternal space

Mauriac, François

Mauss, Marcel

Mayakovsky, Vladimir Vladimirovich

Meaning; impossibility of. See also Signifiance

Measures

Media

Melancholia

Memory

Memory/Loss (Wilson)

Mérimée, Prosper

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice

Metaphor

Metaphysics

Metapsychology (Freud)

Michelet (Barthes)

Minimalism

Minoan-Mycenean experience

Miraculous

Mirror stage

Mithraism

Mit-Sein

Mitterand, François

Modesty (Corradini)

Morality; of form; freedom and

Moreau, Gustave

“Morning of Drunkenness” (Rimbaud)

Mother

“Mourning and Melancholia” (Freud)

Movement

Mutation

M’Uzan, Michel de

Mysteries

Myth

 

Nadja (Breton)

Narcissism

Narration. See also Free association; Novel

Nature, denial of

Nausea: as border of being; other and; rejection of being

Nausea (Sartre)

Naville, Édouard-Henri

“Negation” (Freud)

Negativity; as demystification; freedom and; games and; Hegelian; language as; other and; Sartrean; of writing

Nerve Meter, The (Artaud)

Neuronic structure

Neurosis

Nicomedes (Corneille)

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nihilism

Normalization

Notes sur la poésie (Breton)

Novel: preterite tense; third person. See also Narration

Novel, philosophical; characters as spokespeople in

 

Object

Objectivism

Oedipal dyad

Oedipal organization

Oedipus1

Oedipus2

Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)

Oedipus complex; anti-Oedipus; failure and; freedom and; girl’s two-sided phase; Oedipus Rex as source; other and; phallic monism; as precocious and biphasic; primacy of penis; sexuality-thought copresence and; two sides; as universal for both sexes; universality of. See also Sexuality

Oedipus Rex (Sophocles)

Oeuvres croisées (Aragon)

Old Man and the Wolves, The (Kristeva)

On a raison de se révolter (Sartre)

Ontogenesis. See also Being

Opposition

Optimistic model of language

Order

Oresteia (Aeschylus)

Other; being-for-the-Other; being-with and; Hegelian; other-as-mirror; rejection of See also Being

Outlaws (Cunard)

Outline of Psycho-Analysis, An (Freud)

 

Paris

Paris Peasant (Aragon)

Pascal, Blaise

Passageway, theme of

Past; preterite tense

Pasternak, Boris

Paternal function

Patrimonial individual

Penis: phallic monism; primacy of. See also Phallus

Perceptual system

Phallic cult

Phallicism, unbearable

Phallic monism

Phallic-signifying order

Phallic stage

Phallus; as extraneous; feminine and; as illusory; kairos; representation and

Philosophy, history of

Phi system

Phylogenesis

Plato

Pleasure; atheism and texts; language and; revolt and; in violence. See also Jouissance

Poésies (Lautréamont)

Poetics (Aristotle)

Poetry

Politics; surrealism and; writing and

Popular culture

Possibility

Power

Powers of Horror (Kristeva)

Praxis

Preconscious

Pre-Socratics

Preterite tense

Priest. See also Purifier

Primal language

Prohibition. See also Law

“Project for a Scientific Psychology” (Freud)

Proust, Marcel

Psyche; infantile genital organization and; polarities

Psychoanalysis; history of; as intermediary; language as tool of; objectivism and; Orestes myth and; sexuality-thought copresence

Psychosis

Psy system

Purification

Purifier

Purity (Corradini)

 

Rationalism

Readers

Religion; phallic cult; phallic manifestation; revolt and; rites

Remembrance

Remembrance of Things Past (Proust)

Repetition

Representation;

phallus and; presence/absence; unrepresentable acts

Repression

Resistance

Respectful Prostitute, The (Sartre)

Responsibility

Return

“Révélations sensationnelles” (Aragon)

Revolt; art as; culture of; etymology of; figures of; Freudian conceptions of; imaginary as; impossible of; interpretation and; logics of; as movement; oedipus complex and; pleasure and; political; religion and; as repetition; surrealism and; symbolic; time and space; as transgression; writing and

Revolution

Revolution in Poetic Language (Kristeva)

Rey, Alain

Reynaud

Rimbaud, Arthur

Rituals

Roads to Freedom, The (Sartre)

Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes (Barthes)

Roman Empire

Rushdie, Salman

 

Sacred

Sacrifice

Sadomasochism

Saint Genet (Sartre)

Sammartino, Giuseppe

Sartre, Jean-Paul; Barthes, influence on; biography; bourgeoisie, view of; engagement with thinkers; as leftist; Nobel Prize and; oedipus complex and; opposition to; sectarianism of; Works: Being and Nothingness; Critique of Dialectical Reason; The Devil and the Good Lord; The Flies; Kean; Nausea; On a raison de se révolter; The Respectful Prostitute; The Roads to Freedom; Saint Genet; Troubled Sleep; The War Diaries; What Is Literature?; The Words

Saussure, Ferdinand

Schweitzer, Karl

Season in Hell, A (Rimbaud)

Self: false self; oedipal complex and; sovereignty of. See also Subjectivity; Individual

Self-Taught Man

Semiology; as deception; as translinguistic See also Linguistics

Semiotic

Sensorial infinite

Sensoriality

Sexuality: language and; sublimation and. See also Bisexuality; Feminine; Homosexuality; Infantile genital organization; Oedipus complex

Sexuality-thought copresence

Sholokhov, Mikhaïl

Sign

Signifiance; analyst and; free association and; negativity of; other and; writing and. See also Language; Linguistics; Meaning

Signifier; penis/phallus as

Signifying chain

Singularity

Skin

Socialism. See also Communism; Stalinism

Social order; oedipus complex and; as religious

Socius

Sollers, Philippe

Soluble Fish (Breton)

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex

Sound-image

Soupault, Philippe

Soviet Encyclopedia

Soviet Union

Space: analytical; sacred See also Time

Space of Literature, The (Blanchot)

Speaking being

Spectacle

Spiritual Exercises (Loyola)

Stalinism. See also Communism; Socialism

Structuralism

Style

Subject; ego as; father and; Freudian thought and; logic of

Subject-in-process

Subjectivity; cultural tradition and; freedom and negativity; oedipal dyad and. See also Individual

Sublimation; sexuality and

Superego

Surrealism: encounter with the impossible; feminine and; Lautréamont’s influence; politics and; reality and; Rimbaud’s influence; scandal and

Symbolic, place of

Symbolic pact

Symbolic revolt

S/Z (Barthes)

 

Taint. See also Defilement

Technicality

Telemachus (Fénelon)

Tel Quel

Textuality

Theater

Thing-presentation

Third person

Thought; a-thought; nausea and; radical; sexuality-thought copresence; as sign; writing as

Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (Freud)

Time; analytical space and; cultural tradition and; timeless (zeitlos)

Time and Sense (Kristeva)

Time of the World

Topologies

Totalitarianism

Totem and Taboo (Freud)

Totemic meal

Toucas, François

Toucas, Marguerite

Tragedy

Transcendence

Transference

Transformation

Transgression

Trauma; feminine. See also Hallucination; Psychosis

Treatise on Style (Aragon)

“Très tard que jamais” (Aragon)

Triangular relationship

Troubled Sleep (Sartre)

Truth

Turbulent boys

Tzara, Tristan

 

Ulysses (Joyce)

Unconscious: conscious domination of; mathematization of; purity and; transference and

Universalism

Unrepresentable acts

Utopias

 

Vail, Clotilde

Valorization

Values

Veiled Christ (Sammartino)

Veiling/unveiling

Venice Biennale

Verbalization

Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Auguste de

Violence

Visible, theme of

Voltaire

Voyageurs de l’impériale, Les (Aragon)

 

War Diaries, The (Sartre)

“War” (Rimbaud)

What Is Literature? (Sartre)

Whole

Wilson, Robert

Winnicott, Donald Woods

“Wolf Man, The” (Freud)

Word-presentation

Words, The (Sartre)

World War I

World War II

Writing: classical; communication vs.; as double-dealing; freedom and; as function; as historical; as jouissance; loss of being and; modes of; negativity of; as neurosis; politics and; polymorphous; as praxis; revolt and; as self-referential; style and language vs.; as thinking; zero degree of. See also Language; Linguistics; Semiology

Writing Degree Zero (Barthes)