Acting Beautifully: Henry James and the Ethical Aesthetic

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Act: Isabel’s, xiii, 2, 25, 122, 141; Milly’s xiii, 85–86, 95, 141; Kate’s, 91; in “Altar of the Dead,” xiii, 124, 142; in Lacan, xi–xiv; passage à l’acte, xi, 147n1 Adorno, Theodor, 20, 28, 32, 34 Aestheticism, 19, 21, 28, 71–72 Aesthetics: inseparability from ethics, xii, xiv; and hysteria, xvi; and ideology, xvi, 19–21, 32; and education, 1, 3; and vision, 3, 14, 21, 34, 39, 139–41, 144; reconciliatory, 3–4, 13, 20–23, 26, 28, 124, 135, 140, 162n43; Agency, 12, 24 Allegory, 112–13, 117, 143, 163n49 Analogy, 50 Antigone, xv, 97, 100, 156n6 Apotheosis, xv, 62–64, 66, 69, 73–74, 77, 84–86 Aristotle, 25 Armstrong, Paul, xvii, 15–17, 19 Art, 17, 38, 44, 58, 71, 73, 101, 130, 136 Badiou, Alain, 126–31, 131, 134, 159n28, 160n36. See also Event Beauty, xiv–xv, 15, 17–19, 34, 71, 79, 81, 84, 144; beautiful soul, 20; Milly’s, 77. See also Aesthetics; Kant; Desire Berkson, Dorothy, 13–14 Bildung, 3, 18–19, 20–21 Bildungsroman, xiii–xiv, 1, 20–23, 27, 32, 37 Blake, William, 137 Bosanquet, Theodora, 144, 163n50 Bradbury, Nicola, 63 Braudel, Fernand, 60 Brennan, Teresa, 94 Breuer, Josef, 45–47 Bronzino, Agnolo di Cosimo, 53, 62–63 Brooks, Peter, 43–46, 73 Buell, Lawrence, 2 Byron, Lord George Gordon, 144 Cameron, Sharon, 153n29 Cantor, Georg, 119, 157n12, 158n18 Capitalism. See Money Castration, 132, 135, 138–39 Causality, xiv, 11, 24, 30–31 Chaitin, Gilbert, 71 Choice: primordial, xii–xiv, 30–31; of neurosis, xiii, xv; forced, xiii, 25–26, 31, 95; ethical, xv–xvi, 134–35; sexual, xv; and freedom, 13–15, 26, 31; Isabel’s, 18–19, 22, 24–25, 30–31; Kate’s, 48–49, 95–96; Densher’s, 89; axiom of, 119, 124 Clemens, Justin, 162n46 Community: ethical, 4, 32–33, 35, 37, 99, 133 Contingency, 40, 101, 105, 111, 127, 129–31, 134, 136, 160n35 Copjec, Joan, xvii, 2, 115–16, 121, 129, 137–38 De Man, Paul, xiv–xv, 12, 19, 21, 38, 112, 114; on Kant, 139–44 De Quincey, Thomas, 24, 127, 137, 149n27 173 Index De Saussure, Fernand, 36 Death, 62–63, 66, 68, 86, 100–1, 136; between two deaths, 97, 123; repression of, 100, 105; drive, xii, 97, 137–40, 142–43 Deconstruction: and ethics, xv–xvi, 99–145 passim; and repetition, xvi, 131; neurotic structure of, xvi, 141. See also Event; Materiality Demand, 138 Derrida, Jacques, 2, 131, 157n13 Desire: xii, 18, 20–22, 30–31, 33, 45, 49, 51, 69, 71, 73, 84–86, 89–90, 96–97, 142–43 155n47; triangular structure of, 67, 76; of woman, 66, 68, 77, 154n41, 160n33, 155n51, 161n42; and dissatisfaction, 69, 73; and prohibition, 69–70, 122; of mOther, 76, 96, 137, 156n55, 160n33; and beauty, 79–80; ceding on, 89; support of, 91 Devlin, Keith, 120 Difference: sexual, xii, xv; and language, 36; right to, 126–27, 133 Drive. See Death Duty, 16, 20, 24, 28–29, 32, 49–51, 96 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 24 Empty signifier, 35–37 Enjoyment. See under Lacan, jouissance Ethics: of desire, xv, 94, 122, 135–36, 163n49; of the drive, 122, 136; and the Symbolic, xii, 135, 141; of psychoanalysis , xii–xiii, 2, 136. See also Kant; Freedom; Impossibility Event, 102, 125, 128–29, 134; deconstructive , 106–7, 109, 112–13, 133; psychoanalytic, 114, 130–31 Fantasy: 69, 71, 80, 86; structure of, xi, 155n47; fundamental, xvi; aesthetic, 22, 108, 132, 136 Father: primal, 75–77; Symbolic, 76. See also Lacan Fetishism, 30 Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 78, 117 Fink, Bruce, 142, 155–56n55 Foucault, Michel, 2 Freccero, John, 157n7 Freedman, Jonathan, 3–5, 14, 19, 21, 34 Freedom: transcendental, xiv, 14, 23, 28; and determination, xiv–xv, 4, 10–11, 16, 23, 25–26; and irony, 12; paradox of, 16; practical, 20. See also Choice; Limit Freud, Sigmund: 45–47, 66, 85–86, 94, 129, 138; choice of neurosis, xiii, xv; Totem and Taboo, xv, 43, 75; Studies on Hysteria, 46; Beyond the Pleasure Principle, 137; “On Narcissism,” 153n28; Dora, 155n48; “Leonard Da Vinci” 162n45. See also Hysteria; Repression Gasché, Rodolphe, xvii, 81, 150n33, 154–55n45, 159n27, 159–60n29 Girard, René, 67, 153n31 Gödel, Kurt, 120 Good: ethical, 20–22, 33, 124; and evil, 43, 52, 54 Hallward, Peter, 126 Hegel, G. W. F., 19, 61, 78–79, 99–101, 106, 133, 136, 156n6, 161n41 Hegemony, 36, 127 Heidegger, Martin, 130 Holland, Laurence, 44–46, 72–73...