5/28/2023 0 Comments Roland barthes cameraNote the large number of words with the same root eid– that appear in this text. Mathesis – mental discipline, knowledge or scienceĮidolon – Greek word for “image”, “likeness”, but also “spectre” or “ghost”. What may be the function of such references? The following references to Buddhism and to the English mystical commentator Alan Watts are all connected to this idea.Īntiphon – the first of the many musical references that Barthes uses in this text: look out for others. Tuché – the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan borrows this term from the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, for whom it means “chance” or “accident”: the point is that reality is accidental and has no “meaning” or narrative – it just “is”. The term “body” and all cognates are one of the main strands that weave in and out of this text. The page numbers below refer to the translation of La chambre claire by Richard Howard, Jonathan Cape (now Macmillan), 1982.īarthes needs a “corpus” or collection of texts in order to classify them, which is the basis of scientific understanding. The previous post provides very briefly the context for this text. The following notes are intended to help the reader understand Barthes’ references, technical terms, themes.
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