Simone Weil and Jacques Lacan by: christopher peyton miller
DISSERTATION Falling to the Heights: Simone Weil’s Metaxu, Attention, and Decreation Through a Lacanian Lens by Christopher Peyton Miller Submitted in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Humanities & Culture March 21, 2018 Dissertation Chair: Dr. Diane Allerdyce Union Institute & University Cincinnati, Ohio Falling to the Heights: Simone Weil’s Metaxu, Attention, and Decreation Through a Lacanian Lens by Christopher Peyton Miller A Dissertation Approved on: March 21, 2018 Union Institute & University Cincinnati, Ohio i Abstract In this dissertation I approach the work of Simone Weil through the lens of Lacanian psychoanalysis, and by doing so I provide a framework which demonstrates consistency on the part of Weil’s literature. This framework is structured by these three major constructs I find in her work: Metaxu, Attention and Decreation. Weil’s work clearly addresses issues ar...