Destin, Design, Dasein: Lacan, Derrida and "The Purloined Letter"

The Purloined Letter: bacterial orthologs of archaeal NMN adenylyltransferase are domains within multifunctional transcription regulator NadR.

Matthew Lamb On the Fictional Specificity of Edgar Allan Poe ’ s “ The Purloined Letter ” ; or , Reading in ‘ the Outer Darkness of Language ’ with Luiz Costa Lima

Part two of this essay looks more closely at the fictionality of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Purloined Letter,” and argues for the importance of the possession of the letter in the story. This importance is delineated by examining the context in which “The Purloined Letter” was composed; in particular, and taking its cues from Kevin J. Hayes’ remarkable Poe and the printed word (2000), ...

Lacan with

In 1953 Donald Winnicott was appointed to a committee by the then president of the IPA Heinz Hartman, to investigate the events surrounding and the resignations of various members of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and the founding of the Société Française de Psychoanalyse. Lacan up to the moment of his resignation from the Paris Society, had been its President and was one of those that the co...

Latino Studies With Lacan

Jacques Lacan's Registers of the Psychoanalytic Field, Applied using Geometric Data Analysis to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter"

In a first investigation, a Lacan-motivated template of the Poe story is fitted to the data. A segmentation of the storyline is used in order to map out the diachrony. Based on this, it will be shown how synchronous aspects, potentially related to Lacanian registers, can be sought. This demonstrates the effectiveness of an approach based on a model template of the storyline narrative. In a seco...