Abstract
This paper aims at unveiling the relationship between transgression and individuation, by looking at the common roots that such concepts share in law and literature. The main objective of such endeavour is to conclude that unveiling the interconnections between transgression and individuation actually reveals further potentialities in transdisciplinary legal scholarship, especially in terms of its relevant pertinence to core legal-theoretical questions, such as interpretation and adjudication.
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1 Georges Bataille, Erotism, Death and Sensuality [1957] (San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 1962), 63.
2 Peter Fitzpatrick, Modernism and the Grounds of Law (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
3 Annie Ernaux, The Years [2008], trans. by Alison L. Strayer (New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 66.
4 Peter Fitzpatrick, Modernism and the Grounds of Law (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
5 Ibid., 2.
6 Ibid., 12.
7 Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo [1913], trans. James Strachey (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1960), 137, 140.
8 Peter Fitzpatrick, Modernism and the Grounds of Law (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 60.
9 Tommaso Gazzolo, Essere / dover essere. Saggio su Hans Kelsen (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2016).
10 Ibid., 58.
11 Sylvie Delacroix, Legal Norms and Normativity. An Essay in Genealogy (Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2006).
12 Peter Fitzpatrick, Modernism and the Grounds of Law (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
13 Sylvie Delacroix, Legal Norms and Normativity. An Essay in Genealogy (Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2006), ix.
14 Ibid., xiv
15 Herbert L. A. Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), 126.
16 Annie Ernaux, The Years [2008], trans. by Alison L. Strayer (New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 67.
17 Ibid., 27–8.
18 In this article, I do not differentiate between civil law and common law system as far as their method is based on casuitry. Although I am well aware that there has been wide, and rich, production on the theme [to mention just one edited volume: Marco Wan, ed., Reading the Legal Case: Cross Currents Between Law and the Humanities (Abingdon: Routledge, 2012)], I refer to both systems without making specific difference between them.
19 I have recently developed the present theses in in two articles: Angela Condello, “Metodo giuridico e algoritmo”, forthcoming Rivista critica del diritto privato, 2020; and Angela Condello, “Sul caso giuridico come disegno”, Teoria e critica della regolazione sociale (1: 2020), 95–112.
20 Hans Georg Gadamer [1960], Truth and Method, trans. by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall (London: Continuum, 2004), 268.
21 Ibid., 301.
22 Ibid., 305.
23 Ibid., 316.
24 Ibid., 321–2.
25 Paul Ricoeur [1995], The Just, trans. by David Pellauer (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2000), 127.
26 Ibid., 128.
27 Georges Bataille, Erotism, Death and Sensuality [1957], trans. by Mary Dalwood (San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1962), 18.
28 Ibid., 65.
29 Carl Gustav Jung [1921], Psychological Types, a revision by R.F.C. Hull of the translation by H.G. Baynes (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017), 54.
30 Tiziano Toracca, “Towards Exemplarity: When the Particular Matters,” Law & Literature 30, no. 3 (2018): 465–77, 467.
31 Annie Ernaux, The Years [2008], trans. by Alison L. Strayer (New York, NY: Seven Stories Press, 2017), 67.
32 Maria Aristodemou, Law, Psychoanalysis, Society. Taking the Unconscious Seriously (London: Routledge, 2014), 2.
33 Ibid., 2–3.
34 Francesco Orlando, Toward a Freudian Theory of Literature [1973], trans. by Chairman Lee (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978).
35 Maria Aristodemou, Law, Psychoanalysis, Society. Taking the Unconscious Seriously (London: Routledge, 2014), 2-3.
36 Ibid., 25.
37 Ibid., 54.
38 Peter Goodrich, Introduction: Psychoanalysis and Law, in Law and the Unconscious. A Legendre Reader, ed. by Peter Goodrich and trans. by Peter Goodrich with Alain Pottage and Anton Schütz (Houndmills: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1997), xiv.
39 Ibid., xvi.
40 Ibid., 49.
41 Ibid., 32.
42 Francesco Orlando, Due letture freudiane: Fedra e il Misantropo (Torino: Einaudi, 1990), 28.
43 Brugnolo, Stefano, “Desiderio e ritorno del represso nella teoria di Francesco Orlando,” Between III, no. 5 (2013).
44 Paul Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy. An Essay in Interpretation, trans. by Denis Savage (New Heaven, CT: Yale University Press, 1970), xii.
45 Ibid., 6.
46 Ibid., 7.
47 Ibid., 8 ff.
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Angela Condello
Angela Condello is Assistant Professor of Legal Philosophy at the University of Messina and Adjunct Professor at the University of Turin. Her research focuses on legal theory and method, law and humanities, law and gender.