‘Waiting for No Man … ’

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

No waiting at the nuclear pore complex

Airport security checkpoints might take a lesson from the nuclear pore complex (NPC), where, according to Dange et al., there are no long lines and no slowdown despite the hubbub around them. The group used single-molecule video microscopy, with a localization precision of about the width of a protein, to track single molecules of labeled, cargo-carrying receptors entering the NPC in vivo. They...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...

No time for waiting: Statistical structure reflects subjective complexity.

No man is an island.