The Lacanian What in the Beckettian Where: Samuel Beckett’s What Where and the impossible structure of mastery

Arka Chattopadhyay holds a B.A. in English Literature from Presidency College and both an M.A. and MPhil in English Literature from Jadavpur University, India, for which he wrote his thesis on Samuel Beckett and Alain Badiou. He completed his PhD at Western Sydney University on Samuel Beckett and Lacanian psychoanalysis under the supervision of Anthony Uhlmann and Alex Ling, having won an International Postgraduate Research Scholarship and Australian Postgraduate Award. Arka’s work has been published in a number of books, anthologies and journals including Colloquy, Miranda, and Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui. He co-edited Samuel Beckett and the Encounter of Philosophy and Literature with James Martell in 2013 and is the editor-in-chief of the online journal Sanglap. His latest publications include the chapter ‘“I switch off’: Towards a Beckettian Minority of Theatrical Event” in Deleuze and Beckett (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and the article “Exhausting the inexhaustible: Reading the structure of Samuel Beckett’s Come and Go through Ashish Avikunthak’s Endnote” in Textual Practice (2016). He has recently guest-edited an issue of Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui on Beckett and Extensions of the Mind for Brill. He is currently writing a monograph on Lacan and Beckett.