Research Catalog

Title

The still arrow : three attempts to annul time / Elvio Fachinelli ; translated by Lorenzo Chiesa.

Author

Fachinelli, Elvio

Publication

• London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

Chiesa, Lorenzo

Description

125 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Italian list

Uniform Title

• Freccia ferma. English
• Italian list.

Alternative Title

Freccia ferma.

Subject

• Time > Psychological aspects
• Death > Psychological aspects
• Psychoanalysis and philosophy
• Attitude to Death
• Temps > Aspect psychologique
• Mort > Aspect psychologique
• Psychanalyse et philosophie

Note

• Originally published in 1979 as La freccia ferma : tre tentativi di annullare il tempo © Adelphi Edizioni, Milan, 1992.
• Translated from the Italian.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

I. The Man Who Annulled Time -- The Difficult Appointment -- A Life According to Moses -- The Segmentation of Time -- Zeno's Man -- Series, Ceremonial, Moral Machine -- From Absolute Models to the WC -- The Impersonal Conflict -- Freud and the Freudians -- Von Gebsattel -- A Theoretical Problem -- II. Pulse, Wheel, Arrow -- The Divine Pulsation -- The Child-God -- The `Here' and the `Now' -- Time as a Wheel -- Magic and Science Facing Time -- Prometheus and Anti-Prometheus -- Where Is the Obsessional? -- III. The Ferocity of the Ancestors -- The Dead and the Ancestors -- Death and the Archaic Group -- The Dependence of the Group -- The Splitting of the Dead -- We Are Our Own Archaic People -- Consequences of the Splitting -- Death as Murder -- Death as Punishment -- Distancing -- The Obligations of the Living -- Funeral Rites, Incorporation, Norms -- Truce, Not Peace -- The Tightrope Walker and Despair -- IV. The Obsessive Lath -- A World within Another -- The Obsessive Postulate -- Autonomy and the Death of the Other -- The Position of Undecidability -- A Note on Ambivalence -- The Obsessive Solution -- The Deadlock -- Guilt as a Rite of Atonement -- The (Con)Fusion with the Dead -- V. An Archaic Microsociety -- The Government of the Living-Dead -- The Obsessive Law -- Identity of Movements and Differences of Outcome -- The Obsessional as an Archaic Microsociety -- Totem and Taboo: The Construction of a Jigsaw Puzzle -- Totem and Taboo: The Problem of Agreements' -- Totem and Taboo: What Is Forbidden? -- A Common Problem -- VI. The Fascist Phenomenon -- `Revelation' or Historical `Parenthesis' -- The Novelty of Fascism: Uninterpretable Fascism -- The Fatherland Is Dying -- The Fascist Amalgam -- The Fatherland Must Not Die: The Fatherland Becomes Roman -- The Rituals of the Fatherland -- VII. Suggestions and Conclusions -- Specific and Repeatable -- Catastrophes of the Sacred -- The One and the Many -- Society as a Bonhomme -- The End of Marco Polo -- The `Madman' Is Always Possible -- The Type of Difference -- Actors and Mise-en-scene -- The Unfolding of Positions -- A Genetic Cell -- Possible and Impossible Histories -- Chronotypy -- Appendix -- On Freud's Verleugnung -- The Sitting King.

ISBN

• 9780857428516
• 0857428519

LCCN

2022360329

OCLC

• on1255815081
• 1255815081
• SCSB-14507531

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries