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The preparation of the novel: lecture courses and seminars at the Collège de France, 1978-1979 and 1979-1980
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Machine generated contents note: THE PREPARATION OF THE NOVEL
1. From Life to the Work
Notes for a Lecture Course at the College de France (1978-1979)
Session of December 2, 1978
Introduction
The "Middle" of Life
To Change
Writing Fantasy
Session of December 9, 1978
The Novel
Session of December 16, 1978
Two Clarifications
1. As If
2. Ethics/Technique
Session of January 6, 1979
The Haiku
"My" Haiku
The Haiku in its Materiality
Translation
Typography. Aeration
The Fascicule
Session of January 13, 1979
The Desire for Haiku
Enchantment of Haiku
The Desire for Haiku
Nonclassification
Nonappropriation
The Weather
Season
Session of January 20, 1979
The Weather
Individuation of the Times of Day
Individuation, the Nuance
1. The Individual Against the System
2. From the Individual to Individuation
Session of January 27, 1979
3. The Nuance
4. The Void, Life
The Instant
1. The Instant and Memory
2. Movement and Immobility
3. Contingency and Circumstance
Session of February 3, 1979
Pathos
1. Perception
1. The Sound is Off
2. "One Art in the Form of Another"
3. Synesthesia
2. Affect, Emotion
Emotion
Session of February 10, 1979
Animals. Digression
Kireji
3. Egotism of Haiku
4. Discretion
Session of February 17, 1979
Effect of the Real or Rather of Reality (Lacan)
Photography
The Division of the Real
Co-presence
Session of February 24, 1979
Setting a Bell Ringing
The Clarity of Haiku
The Limits of Haiku
1. The Concetto
2. Narration
Session of March 3, 1979
Conclusion
Passages
1. Daily Practice of Notation
2. The Levels of Notation
Division
Noteworthy
Session of March 10, 1979
3. Life in the Form of a Sentence
4. Quiddity, Truth
1. Joyce: Quiddity
2. Proust: Truth
THE METAPHOR OF THE LABYRINTH
Interdisciplinary Investigations
Seminar (1978-1979)
Introductory Session of December 2, 1978
Origin
The Word, the Thing (Collating a Basic Knowledge)
Etymology
The Thing
Fields of Presence of the Metaphor
Symbolism
Metaphor
Concluding Session of March 10, 1979
The Labyrinth: A Few Closing Remarks
THE PREPARATION OF THE NOVEL
2. The Work as Will
Notes for a Lecture Course at the College de France (1979-1980)
Session of December 1, 1979
Preamble
Outline
Epigraph
Plan
Parabase
Bibliography of the Most Frequently Quoted Authors (Authors and Critical Works)
1. The Desire to Write
Origin and Departure
Jubilation
The Hope of Writing
Hope
Volupia/Pothos
Imitation
Inspiration
1. A Narcissistic Distortion
2. A Semiotics
3. A Copy of a Copy
4. An Unconscious Filation
5. A Simulation
The Desire to Write
Mania
Those Who Don't Write
Anxious Desire
Writing as a Tendency
Tendency
Session of December 8, 1979
Indistinction/Poikilos
Intransitive
To Have Finished
Digression To Not Write?
1. Scuppering
2. "Idleness"
Knowledge
DIY {Bricolage}
Nothing
Wou-wei
Session of December 15, 1979
"I'm Worth More Than What I Write"
Ego-Ideal ≠ Ideal Ego
Writing/Ideal Ego Differential
1. Writing
2. The (Writer's) Ideal Ego
An Infinite Mechanism
Parabase, Method, Narrative
Method
Simulation
1. Example and Metaphor
2. Mise en abyme and Maquette
3. Situation/Position
Narrative
The Three Trials
Session of January 5, 1980
2. First Trial: Choice, Doubt
Content?
Philosophy of the Work
The Themes of the Work
The Work as Fantasized Form
Fantasy/The "Volume"
A Typology of the Book
The Ordinary Book
The Anti-Book
Two Fantasized Forms: The Book/The Album
1. The Book
a. Mallarme: The Total Book
b. The Sum-Total Book
c. The Pure Book
2. The Album
Circumstance
Rhapsodic
Diary/Structure/Method
Speech/Writing
Session of January 12, 1980
The Stakes
Dialectic of the Book and the Album
Indecision and Necessity
Indecisions
No Necessity?
After-the-Fact
Finishability
Need
Chance
"Proof"
Self-evaluation: Talent
Talent
Misrecognition
Truth-Novel
Difficult/Impossible
Conclusion
The Blocking Fantasy
"Blank in the Course"
3. Second Trial: Patience
A. A Methodical Life
The Work the World
Office
Society, Worldly
Concupiscences
Love
Real Life
Egoism
Solution?
Session of January 19, 1980
Life as Work
Return of the Author
Return to Biography
Gide
Proust
Life Writing
Vita Nova
Complete Breaks
Bustle/Peace
Bustle
Smooth Time
Administration
Writings
Correspondence
Accounts
Luxury
Defenses
To Refuse
Immobility
A Novel to Write
Originality
"Workshop"
Illness
Casuistry of Egoism
To Sacralize Yourself
Session of January 26, 1980
Casuistry of Egoism
Regimes
Home
Night-Time
Session of February 2, 1980
Solitude
Schedules
The Grand Rhythm
To Conclude
B. The Praxis of Writing
Preliminary Question: Reading/Writing
Starting Up
1. Crises
2. "It Takes"
Session of February 9, 1980
From Starting Up to Labor
Planning
Brakings
1. The Slow Hand
History of Speed
Types of "Hand"
2. The Overall Time of the Work
Parametrics
Interrupting the Work
3. The Breakdown
Marinade
Difficulty
Solutions
Conclusion: Boredom
Acedy
Schopenhauer
Art
Fall Outside of the Essence
Session of February 16, 1980
4. Third Trial: Separation
Archaism and Desire
Attachment to the Past
Untimeliness
Living Desire
What is Going to Die
Signs of Desuetude
1. Teaching
2. Leadership
3. "Work"
4. Rhetoric
5. Heroism
The Exiled Writer
1. Which History?
2. Which Society?
3. Which Language?
Session of February 23, 1980
To Overcome
Tragic
To End the Course
1. Simplicity
2. Filiation
3. Desire
A Last (but Not Final) Word
PROUST AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Examination of a Little-Known Photographic Archive
Seminar
Editor's Foreword
1. Seminar?
2. Photographic Archive?
3. Little Known?=Unknown
4. Proust and Photography
5. "Examination"
1. The "World" of Proust (=of Marcel)
2. The "Keys".
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