Open Lecture：The Autographic Gesture: Autobiographical Comics, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

タイトル/Title:

The Autographic Gesture: Autobiographical Comics, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis

 

講師/Lecturer:

ホースマン　ヤスコ/HORSMAN, Yasco

ピーターズ　マタイス　アドリアヌス/PETERS, Mathijs Adrianus

（ライデン大学/Leiden University）

 

日時/Day and Time:

2026年7月10日金曜日/Friday, 10th July 2026,

16:00-18:00

 

場所/Venue:

早稲田キャンパス11号館506号室/Building 11, Room #506, Waseda Campus

 

言語/Language:

英語（通訳なし）/Presented in English (No translation)

 

入場/Admission:

入場無料。どなたでもお入りいただけます/Free and open to everyone

 

要旨/Abstract:

 

This lecture will discuss the rise of autobiographical comics and graphic novels in the European and American traditions.

We will introduce the notion of the ‘Autographic Gesture,’ as we have explored it in our book Autobiographical Comics and Graphic Novels: Philosophical and Psychoanalytical Reflections on the Autographic Gesture (Palgrave 2025). Autobiographical comics, we argue, rely on a gesture that combines three semiotic logics, each of which points to a different form of selfhood: (1) a narrative self, articulated by an “I”; (2) a visual portrait of the self; and (3) a graphic trace that points to an embodied self.

Using theories by continental thinkers such as Paul Ricoeur, Jean-Paul Sartre and Jacques Lacan, we will discuss examples from graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi, Riad Sattouf and Robert Crumb.

We will end our lecture by discussing autobiographical manga by つげ 義春/Tsuge Yoshiharu, 辰巳ヨシヒロ/Tatsumi Yoshihiro and つりたくにこ/Tsurita Kuniko, which we explore in our current research project.