Beckett, Lacan and the Mathematical Writing of the Real

Arka Chattopadhyay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India. He co-editor of Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature (with James Martell, 2013) and Endlessness of Ending: Samuel Beckett and the Extensions of Mind (with Dirk Van Hulle et al, 2017). He is co-editor of the journal Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry (with Sourit Bhattacharya).

• Foreword Anthony Uhlmann, Western Sydney University, Australia1. Real Writing in Literature and Psychoanalysis 2. One… All… Alone: Borromean Logic of Solitude and Company in How It Is3. Company and the Motility of the Real Unconscious 4. Jouissance of Worsening in Lituraterre: Worstward Ho5. Mathematised Body and Sexual Rapport 6. ConclusionBibliographyIndex

Envisioned as a “psychoanalytic reading of Beckett (…) through a literary reading of Lacan” (193), the book manages to analyze one of modernism’s most essential and complex authors while illuminating Lacanian psychoanalysis’ own intricate knots with literary modernism, which according to Chattopadhyay cannot not have mathematical form.