The monad and the cut in Samuel Beckett’s Endgame

  Interruptions and false starts are omnipresent in Beckett’s work, revealing a similar preoccupation with the cut in psychoanalysis. And yet, Endgame would seem to present a situation devoid of a structuring cut, with its characters lodged in a form of uniform monad devoid of any opening to the outside: it appears as a desperately homogenous world, belonging to the imaginary register, one that dissimulates real anxiety. One major cut is therefore the exclusion of the characters from the phallic register, supportive of desire. While the refuge is a place of stasis, the cut intervenes in the come and go movement leaning on the symbolic register, driving the movement to go on. Clov’s tormented relationship to Hamm can be seen as exemplifying the formula of the fantasy, involving the cut between subject and a object, where any complementarity dissimulates a fundamental breach. Such an object is embodied by the other characters, as well as by the refuge itself. Finally, the cut is associated with the subject and discourse as a closed structure. However, the question could also be seen from the point of view of the use of lalangue, which informs the real dimension of saying

Plasma Physics

Contains research objectives and reports on three research projects.United States Atomic Energy Commission (Contract AT(30-1)-1842

Mitochondrial‐Dna Analyses And The Origin And Relative Age Of Parthenogenetic Lizards (Genus Cnemidophorus). Ii. C. Neomexicanus And The C. Tesselatus Complex

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/137490/1/evo02541.pd

Pathogenic, Molecular, and Immunological Properties of a Virus Associated with Sea Turtle Fibropapillomatosis. Phase II : Viral Pathogenesis and Development of Diagnostic Assays

Research conducted under this RWO from July 1, 1997 through June 30, 2000 has provided important new information about the pathogenesis, virology, and immunology of marine turtle fibropapillomatosis. In particular, we have provided strong evidence for the association of a herpesvirus with fibropapillomatosis of the green turtle,Chelonia mydas, and the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta, in Florida. In addition we have provided new evidence for the absence of papillomaviruses from sea turtle fibropapillomas. Although unsuccessful, important new attempts were made to cultivate the FP-associated herpesvirus in vitro in collaboration with the National Wildlife Health Center. During this period of time, we completed publication of the first comprehensive description of the comparative pathology and pathogenesis of experimentally induced and spontaneous fibropapillomas of green turtles (Chelonia mydas). We initiated innovative studies on the persistence of a Chelonian herpesviruses in the marine environment demonstrating for the first time that the environmental survivability of Chelonian herpesviruses makes them real threats to marine turtle health. Finally, we explored development of a serological assay for FP using synthetic herpesvirus peptides and developed methodologies for detection of antibodies to LETV [Iung-eye-trachea virus] a disease-associated herpesvirus of the green turtle, Chelonia mydas.. This last initiative is ongoing and will further our efforts to develop specific immunological assays for the FP-associated herpesvirus and FP. (17 page document

Gauge covariant fermion propagator in quenched, chirally-symmetric quantum electrodynamics

We discuss the chirally symmetric solution of the massless, quenched, Dyson-Schwinger equation for the fermion propagator in three and four dimensions. The solutions are manifestly gauge covariant. We consider a gauge covariance constraint on the fermion--gauge-boson vertex, which motivates a vertex Ansatz that both satisfies the Ward identity when the fermion self-mass is zero and ensures gauge covariance of the fermion propagator.Comment: 11 pages. REVTEX 3.0. ANL-PHY-7711-TH-9

Mitochondrial‐Dna Analyses And The Origin And Relative Age Of Parthenogenetic Lizards (Genus Cnemidophorus). Iv. Nine Sexlineatus‐Group Unisexuals

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/137512/1/evo02543.pd

Pion structure function in nuclear medium

We study the pion structure function in nuclear medium using the Nambu and Jona-Lasinio model, and its implication for the nuclear pion enhancement of the sea quark distribution in nuclei. By using the operator product expansion, medium effect of the nuclear matter is incorporated in calculations of the twist-2 operators. We find density dependence of the pion structure function is rather weak around the nuclear matter density. We also discuss how the medium modification of the pion structure affects the sea quark enhancement in the nucleus.Comment: 16 pages (LaTeX), 5 figures are available as uuencoded PS files upon reques

Electromagnetic Pion Form Factor and Neutral Pion Decay Width

The electromagnetic pion form factor, $F_\pi(q^2)$, is calculated for spacelike-$q^2$ in impulse approximation using a confining quark propagator, $S$, and a dressed quark-photon vertex, $\Gamma_\mu$, obtained from realistic, nonperturbative Dyson-Schwinger equation studies. Good agreement with the available data is obtained for $F_\pi(q^2)$ and other pion observables, including the decay $\pi^0 \rightarrow \gamma\,\gamma$. This calculation suggests that soft, nonperturbative contributions dominate $F_\pi(q^2)$ at presently accessible~$q^2$.Comment: 25 pages, LaTeX, elsart.sty, 5 figures, To appear in Nucl. Phys.