The purloined letter

Poë, Edgar Allan

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“…1-3). Caught up in this history of letters circulating from Socrates to Freud, and beyond (See Derrida, 1987), we find The purloined letter, which Lacan (1972) had snatched from an innocent Poe (1845Poe ( / 1981 to return to Freud, but which Derrida then seized in the name of a postman/factor of truth (Le facteur de fa verite, Derrida, 1987, pp. 413-496) -all letters about the circulation of a letter, and constituting a context for our postmortem note.…”

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On the Limits (of the Subject) of Psychology

Deventer

1997

South African Journal of Psychology

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The subject of psychology broaches two domains of discourse, one in which the subject belongs to psychology as its object of study and another where the discipline of psychology belongs to the subject as a topic of discussion. Actually, these are not two domains of discourse but rather two domains concerning discourse: a domain where the subject belongs to discourse and a domain where discourse belongs to the subject; more precisely: a domain of being known and a domain of the knowing being. This article is about the delimitation of these two domains. Bringing them into existence requires complicated motions on (or at) the borderline that separates them. This means a special kind of writing of the subject of psychology, a writing characterized by a double stroke in the sense that it represses while it creates. In this article, the author explores the nature of this kind of delimitation, and then relates three stories to illustrate the writing that constitutes the subject of psychology as a knowing being and a being known. We see how the delimitation of the discipline of psychology splits the subject into a subject who comes into being on both the inside and the outside of psychology, and how in an attempt to bridge this split (which is the drive for identity) a core part of the subject must be repressed, and finally how the attempt to wipe the traces of this repression constitutes an entire psychology, which reveals psychology as a double repression. The article concludes that these notions open psychology as a grammatology, meaning that the logos of the psyche is not simply revealed, but written in and through a double stroke. 75

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On the Limits (of the Subject) of Psychology

Deventer

1997

South African Journal of Psychology

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“…Dupin, like the other Detectives who will follow him, is resolutely an outsider to the police force. In fact, in all three stories in which Dupin appears (Poe 1983a, Poe 1983b, Poe 1983c), his methods are continually contrasted to that of the Parisian police force. That is, to their lack of method 8 .…”

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“…This is in sharp contrast to our hero, M. Dupin. For example, in another story, “The Purloined Letter” (Poe 1983c), Dupin need only pay a short visit to the apartment of the blackmailer in order to locate an incriminating letter. The Prefect himself had been carefully searching the apartment each night for months, using the latest in technical wizardry, to no avail:…”

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Of Heroes and Polemics: “The Policeman” in Urban Ethnography

Karpiak

2010

PoLAR

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Cities have long been characterized as lonely, alienating places in literature and the social sciences. This article tracks the theme of urban alienation through both detective fiction and urban ethnography, demonstrating that these literatures also share a focus on two key figures: the Hero and the Policeman. Within an important variant of the genre, the Policeman performs a crucial role, becoming the mechanism through which alienation is enforced. In this regard the Policeman stands in contrast to the Hero, battling over the very soul of modernity. On the other hand, there is a variant of the genre of police fiction which is known as noir. Within this genre, the ethical stakes are configured somewhat differently. I will argue that this is the location in which we find the potential for reconceptualizing anthropology's ethical stakes vis‐à‐vis questions of power and violence in the contemporary world.

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“…Examples of this trend are far too numerous for me to do justice here. However, a brief mention of early works in the genre that feature an “unofficial” detective such as Robert Audley include (but are by no means limited to) Poe's “Dupin” stories (“The Murders at the Rue Morgue,”“The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,” and “The Purloined Letter,” pub. 1842–1845); Dickens's short story “Hunted Down” (pub.…”

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From Do-Nothing to Detective: The Transformation of Robert Audley in Lady Audley's Secret

Pallo

2006

J Popular Culture

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The purloined letter

Cited by 14 publications

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On the Limits (of the Subject) of Psychology

On the Limits (of the Subject) of Psychology

Of Heroes and Polemics: “The Policeman” in Urban Ethnography

From Do-Nothing to Detective: The Transformation of Robert Audley in Lady Audley's Secret

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