Dismemberment: the necessity of inarticulate memory, by Serena Hashimoto

Abstract: "Dismemberment: the necessity of inarticulate memory," names and explores an invaluable part of the subjective makeup, inarticulate memory. Additionally, the erstwhile largely ignored ending to Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov is examined within the paradigm of memory that is constructed. In order to complete this project four avenues of inquiry were pursued. First, repetition is discussed from the perspective of the Kierkegaardian impossible, the Freudian symbolic, and the Derridaian difference. Second, the function of memory and the psyche is addressed in terms of the Lacanian 'mirror stage,' Kristeva's concept of the abject, and a detailed review of Freud's account of childhood memory. Third, an analysis of the ending of The Brothers Karamazov and literature pertaining to it was conducted. Fourth, a correlation between the events of the myth of Oedipus was made in relation to the novel's ending "The Speech by the Stone." This endeavor accomplished an illumination of inarticulate memory as well as advancing study in the philosophical categories of ambivalence, kitsch, déjà vu, parricide, performative speech act, and intention. The above named scholars were utilized to achieve this as were John L. Austin, Jean François Lyotard, James L. Rice, Avital Ronell, Marcel Proust, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, Slavoj Zizek, and Wolfgang Schirmacher. Accomplished is an investigation that is pluralistic in design; literary and philosophical, communication theory and aesthetic criticism.

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