Tohid Teymouri

• University of Zanjan

Death experience is sketched out as possibility rather than the end in Saul bellow’s novels, and it is approached and explored in correspondence to writing space and authorship. This study aims to shed light on the experience of death in Saul Bellow’s major novels concerning Maurice Blanchot’s elaboration on death experience that he offers mainly i...

This paper studies sinthomatique writing in Saul Bellow’s Herzog in the form of letter-writing. Referring to Lacanian theory, the Sinthome is discussed in the study as a system of signification that exploits the unconscious digging for jouissance. Connected to jouissance in writing unconscious, the Sinthome is the fourth ring in the Borromean knot...

In Lacanian theory, the Borromean knot is formed by the three linked rings of the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real such that each ring controls and blocks the other two from drifting apart. Later, Lacan introduces the Sinthome as the fourth ring for subject analysis. This paper concentrates on a condition in which the rings fall apart. Terms o...