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

Authors

M. Aristodemou, University of London

Abstract

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.

Recommended Citation

Aristodemou, M., The trouble with the double; Expressions of disquiet in and around Law and Literature, Law Text Culture, 11, 2007.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol11/iss1/8