Jacques & Paul

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 17 12:31:57 PST 2000


[a friend writes...]

(Found this on alt.psychology.psychoanalysis)


>http://www.bibliofind.com
>
> [_] LACAN, Jacques.: Ecrits. ; Paris: Editions du Seuil,
> 1966. Octavo, 912pp. Lacan's most important volume, collecting
> twenty seven articles and lectures originally published
> between 1936 and 1966.
>
> Astonishingly inscribed, "A Paul Newman, Qui m'a fait voir
> New York et toi a prouve' qu'il m' entendait mieux que
> personne," and dated 2 December 1975.
>
> (TT's translation)
> To Paul Newman, who has shown me New York,
> and who has proved that {he / New York}
> understands me better than anyone
>
> (just like everything else Lacan writes, it
> is inherently ambiguous. i don't understand
> the use of "toi" here.)
>
> The recepient was a professor of French at Sarah Lawrence.
> In 1975, when Lacan was visiting the United States on a
> lecture tour, Newman assayed -- in partnership with a young
> woman named Pamela Tytell -- to look after the pyschologist
> during his transit through Gotham City. Hilarious adventures
> ensued, fueled by Lacan's conviction that his fame had been
> spread to every middlesex, village and farm of the Great
> Republic; a delusion his attendents left unexasperated by
> telling the guillible staffs of sundry institutions that
> Lacan was Jean Paul Sartre -- always adding that one of
> the great man's eccentricities was a wish never to be
> addressed by name. Lacan spoke no English, and these ruses
> proved absurdly successful.
>
> Good in printed publisher's wrappers. A longish water stain
> to the front cover, and with considerable creasing to the
> spine -- suggesting that Professsor Newman read this valuable
> book repeatedly. We leave it to posterity to determine
> whether the inscription is sarcastic or pyschotic. We at
> the Sign of the Duck suspect the latter.
>
> association copies, inscribed, modern thought, philosophy
> 21442 Offered for sale by Lame Duck Books at US$2500.00



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