What are the two senses of the word “invention”
What are the two senses of the word “invention” that Montrelay speaks about in “The Double Status”? How does Barthes’s discussion of the history of rhetoric in “The Old Rhetoric” expand your appreciation of what is at stake in invention subjectively? How is the archaic notion of invention Montrelay alerts us to resonant with the claim Lacan makes is his early work concerning the status of the rhetorician as the precursor of the psychoanalyst? In what way does invention in the archaic sense Montrelay alerts us to related to the floating attention required of the psychoanalyst? What is the relation of said floating attention to the unconscious as a floating field as she describes it with the help of quantum physics? What may the practice of floating attention generate in the libidinal economy of the unconscious that is akin to invention in the ancient sense? Describe and discuss what formal and economic transformations are involved.