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Lacan and Literature w/ Russell Sbriglia

Žižek And So On

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Pierre: A Pervert's Guide to Cinema

I'm currently working through a couple chapters on Melville's novel Pierre. I mean, Moby Dick is a great example of something that is both traditionally sublime and a Lacanian Hegelian sublime. In in the novel Pierre like there's this weird stone it's kind of like when he talks about picnic at hanging rock. There's this weird geological stone formation that doesn't let me see if I can actually find find a picture of it. And so I think that that's what G.J. Jeezych is most interested in: These these things from interspace are externalized and in so doing they manifest in imminent contradiction right. That's why they that's why they be

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