Re: [-empyre-] Accidents (was for example)

[Yvonne Martinsson <yvonne@freewheelin.nu>]

Could you please enlarge on this?

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> From: "tobias c. van Veen" <tobias@techno.ca>
> Reply-To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 11:00:31 -0500
> To: empyre <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Accidents (was for example)
> 
> What is interesting about Abraham and Torok, two post-psychoanalytic
> linguists, is their idea of language as non-representational, digging so far
> into the structures of language (metaphor, metonymy), that lines of fracture
> are traced _in the word_, graphemes and phonemes, which are then subject to
> various processes and distortions that render unconscious memory (reading
> this alongside Paul de Man on irony & allegory, one can even go farther).