TY - JOUR
AU - Marcus, Laura
AB - 26 8 ENGLISH the reader outside and without the will to look in. Again, there are other linguistic features about Othello's name that have an equal interest. Notably, the Othoman or Osman component that links the Moor to the founder of a Turkish dynasty and suggests the Turk-in-the-Moor who kills the Venetian and must be killed by the Venetian Moor. But these are not germane to Fineman's gist, and are therefore ignored. For Fineman was crucially hooked on matters less simple: This determination of the autodifferential mark — which Lacan alternately develops in terms of the post-Cartesian difference between the subject who speaks and the subject who is bespoken, or in terms of the difference between the subject of the signifier and the subject of the signified, or in terms of the desire precipitated by the infinite discrepancy between finite need and infinite demand, or in terms of the fading of the subject in the intersubjective dialectic between the intersaid This sentence continues for another fifty words. It is a fair example of the gobbledygook that, for all I know, passes for English in Berkeley, where Fineman was Professor of English at the University of California. According to Gary 
TI - Writer's Block
JF - English
DO - 10.1093/english/40.168.268
DA - 1991-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/writer-s-block-RB0ODSMSxM
SP - 268
EP - 275
VL - 40
IS - 168
DP - DeepDyve
ER -