Jacques Lacan's Registers of the Psychoanalytic Field, Applied using Geometric Data Analysis to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Purloined Letter"
In a first investigation, a Lacan-motivated template of the Poe story is fitted to the data. A segmentation of the storyline is used in order to map out the diachrony. Based on this, it will be shown how synchronous aspects, potentially related to Lacanian registers, can be sought. This demonstrates the effectiveness of an approach based on a model template of the storyline narrative. In a second and more comprehensive investigation, we develop an approach for revealing, that is, uncovering, Lacanian register relationships. Objectives of this work include the wide and general application of our methodology. This methodology is strongly based on the "letting the data speak" Correspondence Analysis analytics platform of Jean-Paul Benz\'ecri, that is also the geometric data analysis, both qualitative and quantitative analytics, developed by Pierre Bourdieu.
Correspondence Analysis and Data Coding With Java and R
This book is difficult to review, because it is at the same time charmingly interesting and maddeningly insular. In the 1970s the school of Jean-Paul Benzécri attained a dominant position in French statistics. This was, to a large extent, because there was a huge vacuum between the probabilists in control of academics and the increasing demands for computerized data analysis. For at least 10 years, French statistics was more or less identical to Analyse des Données, or, more specifically, to the dynamic duo Analyse des Correspondances and Taxonomie (a.k.a. cluster analysis).
Hétérogénéité textuelle : l'exemple de la fable : Plans d'organisation du discours
En se situant dans le cadre de l'approche modulaire de l'analyse du discours, l'A. aborde le probleme complexe de la description de l'heterogeneite compositionnelle de la fable. Cette heterogeneite reside dans le fait que les constituants narratif et deliberatif de la fable s'y differencient d'emblee, le recit venant ainsi illustrer une argumentation generalement explicite. L'A. montre ici comment, grâce a cette particularite typologique constitutive de son identite generique, la fable offre un terrain d'enquete particulierement propice a un questionnement sur les plans d'organisation du discours, tant aux niveaux de la segmentation des unites que de leur hierarchie, et ce, quels que soient les criteres retenus pour operer ces segmentations et quel que soit le mode de manifestation de la hierarchie entre les unites ainsi obtenues. Il tente ensuite d'identifier la strategie discursive mise en oeuvre dans la fable en examinant l'imbrication entre les sequences et leur agencement a des fins argumentatives