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This chapter examines the psychic trajectory of Lemaire’s protagonist, demonstrating the intertwining of Imaginary and Symbolic registers and thereby illuminating Lemaire’s treatment of consolatory rhetoric.
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Jean Lemaire de Belges, La Concorde des deux langages, ed. Jean Frappier (Paris: Droz, 1947).
For useful accounts of the Imaginary, see Kaja Silverman, The Subject of Semiotics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983), pp. 157–62
Jean Laplanche and J.-B. Pontalis, Vocabulaire de la psychanalyse (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1967), pp. 195–96
Jacqueline Rose, Sexuality in the Field of Vision (London: Verso, 1986), pp. 167–97
On the traditions underpinning Genius, see Jane Chance Nitzsche, The Genius Figure in Antiquity and the Middle Ages (New York: Columbia University Press, 1975).
On the symbolism of the miter, see Armstrong, Technique and Technology, p. 109. The terms “vehicle” and “topic domain” derive from Eva Feder Kittay, Metaphor: Its Cognitive Force and Linguistic Structure (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), p. 140.
See Rose M. Bidler, Dictionnaire erotique: ancien fiançais, moyen français, Renaissance (Montreal: Éditions CERES, 2002), pp. 117–118.
See Cowling, Building the Text, pp. 201-202. Cynthia J. Brown, “Jean Lemaire’s La Concorde des deux langages: The Merging of Politics, Language, and Poetry,” Fifteenth-Century Studies 3 (1980): 29–39.
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Armstrong, A. (2008). Yearning and Learning: Spaces of Desire in Jean Lemaire De Belges’ Concorde Des Deux Langages (1511). In: Léglu, C.E., Milner, S.J. (eds) The Erotics of Consolation. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09741-5_5
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