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Something of this extimacy is voiced in one of the uncanniest passages in the text, wherein the Creature grounds his self-defense against charges of murder, a defense itself grounded in radical singularity, in a line of poetry written by Percy Shelley that speaks to the beyond-morality of any being who is unconnected to all others.
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In 1812, the biographical analogue for this form of what Lacan would have called 'extimacy' would have been Shelley's panic about elephantiasis.
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For serious readers, recognizing the extimacy of literature restores to creative writing the portion of reality that is characteristic of child's play.
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The implications of the extimacy of literature are crucial to the construction in Frankenstein of psychical reality.
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Shelley's perception of this world, and the extimacy inherent to it, is hardly the space of consolation or possibility that idealizations of literature by many of her contemporaries posit.
Article Abstracts 2008
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While part of the story, Shelley's account is more concerned with how the extimacy of literature, in cutting across both her phantasy - and real life, complicates self (or ego) formation.
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Hers proceeds by not opposing reality to phantasy but utilizing the extimacy of literature to redesign all three.
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On extimacy in relation to the Thing, see Lacan, Seminar 139.
Notes on 'Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality' 2008
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What Frankenstein explores is the extimacy of the world of books, at once exterior to the subject and yet a vital part of inner life and interior processes. [
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Then I was reading a blog entitled "Slouching Towards Extimacy" and I thought, "Geez, extimacy is a great word.
Archive 2007-02-01 Heo 2007
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