Wright, ''The New Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism''

Breast Feeding

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/AngelaPalumbo/2009/03/breast_feeding.html

From Elizabeth Wright’s “The New Psychoanalysis and Literary Criticism” in Donald Keesey’s Contexts for Criticism, page 396
“The uncanny force of the shaving scene resides in the slave’s actions being both signifier of his good intentions to Delano, the new master, and at the same time signifier of his bad ones to Cereno, his old master, whose death is the moment he anticipates.”

Why is Language Associated with Babo

"Reading a text is no longer considered an innocent activity. Post-structuralism undermines the notion that the text contains a stable meaning" (Wright 393).

Near the end of the essay we are given another quote, "...meanings of which [the author] had only a blurred view" (Wright 399).

Why all this Ambiguity and Ambivalence?

“The question naturally arises why we should bother ourselves about unstable meanings. What do we gain from proving that an author is ambivalent, and he did not know he meant it when he said it? It seems that on the one hand we are taking a share of the credit away from him, but on the other hand we are also giving him credit for an act of living communication. Instead of treating the author virtually as an egoist we are treating him as a subject whom we could enlighten. We do this not by gleefully uncovering hidden meanings of which he had only a blurred view, because no one can project perfectly and infinitely into the future” (Wright 399).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/GretaCarroll/2009/03/why_all_this_ambiguity_and_amb.html

Check this out!!!

"Post-structuralist criticism undermines the notion that the text contains a stable meaning" (Wright 393).

http://blogs.setonhill.edu/SueMyers/

Is Wright taking the easy way out?

Babies and Wright
http://blogs.setonhill.edu/JennaMiller/2009/03/babies-and-wright.html

your the nest contestant