Jacques Lacan divided this story into two scenes, calling the first one the "primal scene" and saying that the second "may be considered its repetition.
Jacques Lacan divided this story into two scenes, calling the first one the "primal scene" and saying that the second "may be considered its repetition." One character in this story remarks that it is an error to consider mathematical truths to be abstract or general. At one point, the main character describes an eight-year-old boy who outwitted his friends at the game of "even and odd." The protagonist leaves a note with a quotation from Crebillon's Atrée for a character whose house had earlier been searched by the Prefect of the Police, although the search proved fruitless. That character had stolen the title object from the boudoir of a prominent personage, and hidden it in plain sight. For 10 points, name this short story, the third to feature the detective Auguste Dupin, by Edgar Allan Poe.
Jacques Lacan divided this story into two scenes, calling the first one the "primal scene" and saying that the second "may be considered its repetition.
“The {Purloined Letter}”