Dennis Schep is the author of Drugs; Rhetoric of Fantasy, Addiction to Truth (Atropos Press, 2011), and of many academic and journalistic articles. He received his PhD in literary studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2017. His current focus is on the establishment of the Foundry, a residency for intellectuals and artists in rural Galicia.

• PrefaceChapter One: The Subject of AutobiographyBarthes’ anti-authorialismCopyright and authorshipBarthesian autobiographyReturn of the referentThe autobiography effectNotesBibliographyChapter Two: Bodies in CrisisPathographyMetaphor (Nancy)Contingency (Nietzsche)Interruption (Ronell)NotesBibliographyChapter Three: Eye ProblemsAnthropology (Nietzsche)Alterity (Derrida)I (Cixous)NotesBibliographyChapter Four: Origin AlgeriaSilenceBreaking the silenceDiscursive proliferationL’Allégorie françaiseNotesBibliographyChapter Five: How Not to Write about OneselfLack of identity (Lévi-Strauss)Posthumous rereadings (de Man)The ecstasy of anonymity (Foucault)ConclusionsNotesBibliography

Dennis Schep is the author of Drugs; Rhetoric of Fantasy, Addiction to Truth (Atropos Press, 2011), and of many academic and journalistic articles. He received his PhD in literary studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2017. His current focus is on the establishment of the Foundry, a residency for intellectuals and artists in rural Galicia.

• PrefaceChapter One: The Subject of AutobiographyBarthes’ anti-authorialismCopyright and authorshipBarthesian autobiographyReturn of the referentThe autobiography effectNotesBibliographyChapter Two: Bodies in CrisisPathographyMetaphor (Nancy)Contingency (Nietzsche)Interruption (Ronell)NotesBibliographyChapter Three: Eye ProblemsAnthropology (Nietzsche)Alterity (Derrida)I (Cixous)NotesBibliographyChapter Four: Origin AlgeriaSilenceBreaking the silenceDiscursive proliferationL’Allégorie françaiseNotesBibliographyChapter Five: How Not to Write about OneselfLack of identity (Lévi-Strauss)Posthumous rereadings (de Man)The ecstasy of anonymity (Foucault)ConclusionsNotesBibliography

Dennis Schep is the author of Drugs; Rhetoric of Fantasy, Addiction to Truth (Atropos Press, 2011), and of many academic and journalistic articles. He received his PhD in literary studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin in 2017. His current focus is on the establishment of the Foundry, a residency for intellectuals and artists in rural Galicia.

• PrefaceChapter One: The Subject of AutobiographyBarthes’ anti-authorialismCopyright and authorshipBarthesian autobiographyReturn of the referentThe autobiography effectNotesBibliographyChapter Two: Bodies in CrisisPathographyMetaphor (Nancy)Contingency (Nietzsche)Interruption (Ronell)NotesBibliographyChapter Three: Eye ProblemsAnthropology (Nietzsche)Alterity (Derrida)I (Cixous)NotesBibliographyChapter Four: Origin AlgeriaSilenceBreaking the silenceDiscursive proliferationL’Allégorie françaiseNotesBibliographyChapter Five: How Not to Write about OneselfLack of identity (Lévi-Strauss)Posthumous rereadings (de Man)The ecstasy of anonymity (Foucault)ConclusionsNotesBibliography