Lom zlomu

• Authors: Ébert Zeminová Catherine

Title variants

EN

The facture of fracture

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with the oxymoron — a rhetoric device which connects two words with contradictory or even opposite meanings. In modern French literature, the oxymoron is the most favorite procédé of Maurice Blanchot in whose works it expresses some paradoxes, not only of aesthetical, but also of ontological nature. We suggest that the omnipresent oxymoronic structures determine Blanchot’s conception of the human subject, the language and the writing. This trope is first approached through a triple prism: 1) a psychoanalytical one, where we relate the oxymoron to Freud’s article “The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words” (1910) for interpreting the oxymoron as one of the archaic principles of the unconsciousness. 2) In a philosophical perspective, the oxymoron can be viewed, in proximity with the Kojève’s anthropological reading of Hegel’s dialectic, as a pattern of the ontological structure of the Dasein defined by the coexistence of the being and the nothingness. 3) Finally, we adopt the point a view of the paraconsistent, non-Aristotelian (post-Aristotelian) logic, which permits us to show the ramification of this figure throughout all textual levels of Blanchot’s fictional and theoretical works. The conclusion points out the analogy between the dialectic of the language and that of the human.

Keywords

CS

oxymóron; antilogie; Blanchot; rétorika; psychoanalýza; ontologie

EN

oxymoron; antilogy; Blanchot; rhetoric; psychoanalysis; ontology

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 54
• Pages: 67-74

Contributors

author

Ébert Zeminová Catherine

• Univerzita Karlova