Lom zlomu // The facture of fracture
This paper deals with the oxymoron — a rhetoric device which connects two words with contradictory or even opposite meanings. In modern French literature, the oxymoron is the most favorite procédé of Maurice Blanchot in whose works it expresses some paradoxes, not only of aesthetical, but also of...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | ces |
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Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická Fakulta
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Svět Literatury |
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| Online Access: | http://svetliteratury.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2017/01/catherine_ebert_zeminova_67-74.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper deals with the oxymoron — a rhetoric device which connects two words with
contradictory or even opposite meanings. In modern French literature, the oxymoron is the most
favorite procédé of Maurice Blanchot in whose works it expresses some paradoxes, not only of
aesthetical, but also of ontological nature. We suggest that the omnipresent oxymoronic structures
determine Blanchot’s conception of the human subject, the language and the writing. This trope is
first approached through a triple prism: 1) a psychoanalytical one, where we relate the oxymoron
to Freud’s article “The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words” (1910) for interpreting the oxymoron
as one of the archaic principles of the unconsciousness. 2) In a philosophical perspective, the
oxymoron can be viewed, in proximity with the Kojève’s anthropological reading of Hegel’s dialectic,
as a pattern of the ontological structure of the Dasein defined by the coexistence of the being and
the nothingness. 3) Finally, we adopt the point a view of the paraconsistent, non-Aristotelian (postAristotelian)
logic, which permits us to show the ramification of this figure throughout all textual
levels of Blanchot’s fictional and theoretical works. The conclusion points out the analogy between
the dialectic of the language and that of the human. |
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| ISSN: | 0862-8440 2336-6729 |