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JACQUES-ALAIN
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The Other Will Always
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PHILIPPE DE
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The Snares of the Other
MARIO ZERGHAM

Aunty Needle Heel
JOSEFINA AYERZA

Rouge Baiser
MICHÈLE ELBAZ

On Lacan's Gide
JACQUES- ALAIN
MILLER

The Unconscious
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NANCY BARTON

Bill to Open Marriage
JACQUES-ALAIN
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Gregory Crewdson
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On Lacan's Gide




Jacques-Alain Miller

 

[...]There was something akin to a curse bearing down on Gide. There is abundant record of this, ranging from Mauriac’s remark that he was “altogether lacking in grace” to Henri de Régnier who dubbed him “Ci-Gide.”86 It seems that a funereal air hung about Gide. Why so? Well, Gide was not a desired child. He was not the phallicized child. On the contrary, we have a very precise answer to the question What is this love?, which shows the sense in which it is exclusive, the extent to which the singular aspect of love poses a question, for this is a love identified with duty.[...]

 


 

 





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