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GRAHAM GREENE'S LACANIAN ENCORE: THE END OF THE AFFAIR

GRAHAM GREENE'S LACANIAN ENCORE: THE END OF THE AFFAIR G RAHAM G REENE’S L ACANIAN E NCORE: T HE E ND OF THE A FFAIR F RANCES L . R ESTUCCIA Boston College [ T ]he sexual relationship cannot be written ( ne peut pas s’écrire ). Everything that is written stems from the fact that it will forever be impossible to write, as such, the sexual relationship. It is on that basis that there is a certain e V ect of discourse, which is called writing. – Lacan, Encore G raham Greene’s late modernist novel The End of the A V air (1951) is a Lacanian text par excellence, a literary avatar of Lacan’s Encore: On Feminine Sexuality/The Limits of Love and Knowledge (1972-73). To begin with an illustrative distraction: if we consider Neil Jordan’s Ž lm The End of the A V air , based on the book, we can glimpse this analogy between Greene’s novel and Lacan’s twentieth seminar on Wom / an’s jouissance , Love, and God. Jordan’s Ž lm misses the mark precisely because it fails to take into account the Lacanian dimension of Greene’s work. Viewers of Jordan’s Ž lm tend to agree on its primary  aw, which exposes the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and the Arts Brill

GRAHAM GREENE'S LACANIAN ENCORE: THE END OF THE AFFAIR

Restuccia, Frances
Religion and the Arts , Volume 7 (4): 369 – Jan 1, 2003
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G RAHAM G REENE’S L ACANIAN E NCORE: T HE E ND OF THE A FFAIR F RANCES L . R ESTUCCIA Boston College [ T ]he sexual relationship cannot be written ( ne peut pas s’écrire ). Everything that is written stems from the fact that it will forever be impossible to write, as such, the sexual relationship. It is on that basis that there is a certain e V ect of discourse, which is called writing. – Lacan, Encore G raham Greene’s late modernist novel The End of the A V air (1951) is a Lacanian text par excellence, a literary avatar of Lacan’s Encore: On Feminine Sexuality/The Limits of Love and Knowledge (1972-73). To begin with an illustrative distraction: if we consider Neil Jordan’s Ž lm The End of the A V air , based on the book, we can glimpse this analogy between Greene’s novel and Lacan’s twentieth seminar on Wom / an’s jouissance , Love, and God. Jordan’s Ž lm misses the mark precisely because it fails to take into account the Lacanian dimension of Greene’s work. Viewers of Jordan’s Ž lm tend to agree on its primary  aw, which exposes the

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