The Seduction of the Name: Universal Marranism and the Secret of Being-in-Language
The author combines Walter Benjamin’s speculations on language, naming, and horror with Jean Laplanche’s general theory of seduction and his notion of the enigmatic signifier in order to reconstruct what he identifies as the primal scene of initiation into language. Further, the...
Main Author: | Adam Lipszyc |
---|---|
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
Published: |
MDPI AG
2018-11-01
|
Series: | Religions |
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/9/11/359 |
Similar Items
-
Les Marranes
by: Albert Bensoussan
Published: (2015-06-01) -
The Images to Come: On Showing the Future without Losing One’s Head
by: Adam Lipszyc
Published: (2020-04-01) -
En guise de postface : des complexions marranes ?
by: Sophie Poirot-Delpech
Published: (2018-05-01) -
Giorgio Agamben—A Modern Sabbatian? Marranic Messianism and the Problem of Law
by: Piotr Sawczyński
Published: (2019-01-01) -
When Shock is No Longer Shocking: The Role of Seduction in Revitalizing Benjamin’s Dialectical Image Under Late-Capitalist Conditions
by: AK Thompson
Published: (2019-05-01)