Vortext: Derrida, Lacan, Life

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Abstract

This research creation project is a poetic rendering of a portion of the story of getting my PhD. The relationship between the text and vortex of theory (Derridean, Lacanian among others) and the quotidian, generate this “vortext” of prose poems. Inspring the research are neighbours, dinner menus, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the news, Betty (Davis, Crocker, Goodwin, Boop), Homer, Dante, the Inquisition, my dissertation defence; Derrida’s essay on différance, his ideas on the universal and autobiography, and his texts Archive Fever and Acts of Religion; and Lacan’s reflections on lack, the absence of the universal woman (Seminar XX), and the objet a and Das Ding (Seminar XI). Thus the poetry of scholarship.

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Concetta Principe

Concetta Principe is a scholar of trauma literature and more recently of ethics and a mad poetics. Her monograph, Secular Messiahs and the Return of Paul’s Real: A Lacanian Approach, was published by Palgrave Macmillan (2015). She has a long essay on Anne Carson and the Canadian unconscious forthcoming with Peter Lang. Her articles have appeared in journals such as Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, Psychoanalytische Perspecteven, and The Bible and Critical Theory. She recently edited a special issue, Lacan Now, for English Studies in Canada. She is also a writer of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction, as well as scholarship on trauma and literature. Her current poetry collection, Disorder, is out with Gordon Hill Press. Her recent Creative Non-Fiction project, Discipline: N.V. came out with Palimpsest Press in 2023. She teaches at Trent University.

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2025-03-14

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Principe, C. (2025). Vortext: Derrida, Lacan, Life. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 15(3), 321–327. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE29719

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Vol. 15 No. 3 (2024): A Research-Creation Episteme? Practices, Interventions, Dissensus

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writing and de-writing

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