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The trouble with the double; Expressions of disquiet in and around Law and Literature

Author: M. Aristodemou (University of London)

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    The trouble with the double; Expressions of disquiet in and around Law and Literature

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Talking, participating, engaging in the field of law and literature is an activity that causes me a lot of pleasure, indeed too much, even too painful a pleasure that easily tips over into, in one of the words in my title, disquiet, fear and anxiety. It is this anxiety, this extreme, perhaps, as I suggest later, ‘illegal’, jouissance provoked by the encounter between law and literature that I want to explore. So another title for this paper could be ‘The Anxiety of the Double: Expressions of Anxiety’ (as I read Pessoa’s term ‘disquiet’) in law and literature.

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Aristodemou, M., (2007) “The trouble with the double; Expressions of disquiet in and around Law and Literature”, Law Text Culture 11(1).

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01 Jan 2007