- The title of this article is taken from a chapter in Pierre Legendrc's Leçons VIII. Le crime du corporal Lortie. Traité sur le Père (Park: Fayard, 1989), p. 79. [My translation throughout.] My thanks to Peter Goodrich for his endurance and his help in publishing this version of the article.
- Michel Foucault, “La vérité et les formes juridiques,” in Dits et Écrits 1954-1988, vol. II 1970–1975 (Paris: Gallimard, 1994), pp. 538–553.
- Legendre, supra note 1 at 13.
- Id., at 33.
- Id., at 60.
- Id., at 84.
- Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (London: Routledge, 1997).
- Cf., Legendre, supra note 1 at 85, 90.
- Michel Foucault, “Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère” [Texte imprimé]: un cas de parricide au XIXe siècle (Paris: Gallimard, 1994).
- Legendre, supra note 1 at 68.
- Legendre, supra note 1 at 85.
- Legendre, supra note 1 at 39, 106.
- C.f. Legendre, supra note 1 at 149ff.
- Pierre Legendre, “Id Efficit, quod figurar (It is the symbol which produces effects): The Social Constitution of Speech and the Development of the Normative Role of Images,” 20 Legal Studies Forum 246, 247 (1996), translated by Peter Goodrich.
- For this mechanism cf., Legendre, supra note 1 at 156.
- Louis Althusser, L'avenir dure longtemps suivie de Les faits, (Paris: Editions Stock/Imec, 1992) [my translation].
- Legendre, supra note 14 at 255.
- Legendre, supra note 1 at 26, 28; this legal principe théâtral in relation to the unspeakable is developed very clearly in Pierre Legendre, “La totémisation de la société. Remarques sur les montages canoniques et la question du sujet” (1998), reprinted in Pierre Legendre, Sur la question dogmatique en Occident (Paris: Fayard, 1999), pp. 285–296, esp. p. 292f.
- Cf., Legendre, supra note 1 at 28.
- Id., at 71.
- Sigmund Freud, “Psycho-Analysis and the Ascertaining of Truth in Courts of Law” (1906), in Collected Papers, vol. 2 (London: Hogarth Press, 1946), pp. 13–24, at 18.
- Id., at 22.
- Id., at 13.
- Hugo Münsterberg, On the Witness Stand. Essays on Psychology and Crime (New York: McClure, 1908), p. 131.
- Avidgor Feldman, “Alle vier Hufe des Pferdes habe ich gleichzeitig in der Luft gesehen…. Über den polizeilichen Blick in Videoaufzeichnungen nachgestellter Mordfälle, wie sie in Strafprozessen eingesetzt werden,” in 16/17 Babylon. Beiträge zur jüdischen Gegenwart (1996), pp. 108–123. (Thanks to Gertrud Koch for bringing this text to my attention.)
- Shoshona Felman, “Forms of Judicial Blindness, or the Evidence of What Cannot Be Seen,” 23 Critical Inquiry 738 (1997). (Thanks to Anton Kaes for bringing this text to my attention.)
- Cited in Legendre, supra note 1 at 62.
- Cf., Legendre supra note 1, at 25.
- Cf., id., at 98.
- Id., at 101.
- Cf., Feldman, supra note 25 at 109.
- For this and the following remark, see Rüdiger Campe, “Vor Augen Stellen. Über den Rahmen rhetorischer Bildgebung,” in Gerhard Neumann, ed., Poststrukturalismus: Herausforderung an die Literaturwissenschaft, (Stuttgart: Metzler, 1997), pp. 208–225.
- Cf., Hugo Münsterberg, The Film. A psychological Study (New York: Dover, 1970 ed.), p.43.
- Cf., Legendre, supra note 1 at 56.
- Id., at 51.
- Id., at 101.
- Cf., id., at 45.
- The book of the film is published as Pierre Legendre, La fabrique de l'homme occidental (texte pour le film), Edition arte, Paris, 1996. Legendre discusses the making of the film in an interview, a version of which appears as Legendre, “L'histoire du droit comme théâtre de verité” 14 Rechtshisorisches Journal 203 (1998) pp. 203–207.
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