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Impossible Contact: The Thing in Lacan and Rachel Whiteread
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 47, Number 3, Fall 2007
- pp. 55-67
- 10.1353/esp.2007.0056
- Article
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Abstract
The article examines the work of contemporary British artist Rachel Whiteread in the light of Lacan's L'Éthique de la psychanalyse, and particularly his concept of 'la Chose', arguing that Whiteread's work illuminates this concept and the relationship Lacan establishes between the 'container' of signification and the empty space of potentiality it contains
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