Semiotic Memory: From Memoria to Ricoeur and Derrida
| Autor: | Wen-ling Su, 蘇文伶 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 103 This study explores semiotic memory, a model that conceives of memory as writing, by drawing a trajectory from the rhetorical art of memory, memoria, to its modern variations in Paul Ricoeur’s and Jacques Derrida’s works. In contrast to Western metaphysics, which holds memory as interiorization, semiotic memory is thoroughly immersed in the materiality and “exteriority” of the sign. Both Ricoeur and Derrida revolt from within metaphysics by positing linguistic mediation, but they diverge on the cause of it. While Ricoeur assigns an active role to the subject in apprehending meaning, Derrida underscores the dialectics within the sign itself. Chapter One presents a (poststructuralist) revisionist view of memoria from antiquity to its decline up to the eighteenth century. As opposed to pioneering research in this field, the focus is placed on revealing the unstable and indeterminate elements embedded in what is taken to be the most stable mechanisms to deposit memory. Chapter Two delineates the rise of a semiotized psyche in the modern era, while attributing it to such semioticians as Roland Barthes and Roman Jakobson in their efforts to integrate rhetoric and reconceptualize memoria as metalanguage. Chapter Three argues that the development of the semiotized psyche culminates in a series of interchanges between Ricoeur and Derrida over metaphor, the trope of mediation par excellence and the prototype of the mnemonic sign. Chapter Four expands on the issue of the memory trace. With Plato as the starting point, Ricoeur and Derrida are shown to regard forgetting as constitutive of memory. Their differences reflect fundamental disciplinary boundaries between phenomenological hermeneutics and deconstruction. |
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