Lacan and Beckett : acts of writing between psychoanalysis and literature

Building on the dialectical tension between neuro-cognitivism and Lacanian psychoanalysis, this article approaches the Beckettian text to localize acts of writing that take place between psychoanalysis and literature. In opposition to the cognitivist model of neuronal relationality, it uses the Lacanian logic of Real non-relation as an inroad into Beckett to explore the material frontier of Beckettian writing where relational meaning reaches its limit. At this limit, we are left with a complex writing between speech and inscription that makes the body of the signifier write against its sense.