tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3065241974347477667.post8118643880175182478..comments2023-10-24T08:16:30.084-07:00Comments on Reading Psychoanalysis: Mladen Dollar, A Voice and Nothing MoreMimitahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06017653777090446792noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3065241974347477667.post-15251997002849657572011-04-20T15:08:43.381-07:002011-04-20T15:08:43.381-07:00The aim you assert at the outset--"I will try...The aim you assert at the outset--"I will try to demonstrate that there is no such thing as silence in Dolar’s text; the only thing exist is voice presented in different forms."--is worthy but there are many obstacles that impede you pulling this claim off. <br /><br />First, lots of terminological errors. By "the main clause" do you mean the topic sentence of the paragraph? Because your reading is actually dealing with two sentences, only one of which is listed in the header of your reading register. The "predicate nominative" is not "it"--that's just a pronoun standing in in the subject position. (Predicate nominatives happen only in sentences with the verb "to be" as the active verb).<br /><br />Second, I'm not clear about where you're heading with the introduction of the subject of enunciation. How is it that the juxtaposition "effaces the function of the grammatical subject as the subject of enunciation"? Wouldn't the sentence have to be in the first person for these subjects to be engaged? How can the "it" serve as "he voice of the other that imposes itself upon the subject of enunciation"? Given the terminological errors already pointed out, I'm wondering whether this too is a terminological error? (Subject of enonciation from Benveniste or Lacan, for instance?)<br /><br />Finally you claim that "the resonance of silence rehabilitates and pursues its aestheticization" but i don't know what you mean by aestheticization of silence here. Where are the features of aesthetics in these sentences? <br /><br />I like your turn at the end towards speculating about blogging and the nature of voice there. How would Dolar have expanded that, do you think?E L McCallumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00993519530617161391noreply@blogger.com