Making Sense. In and of Doron Rabinovici

Abstract:This article explores the sense-making paradigms that operate in and outside Doron Rabinovici's Papirnik (1994). It argues that the dominant mode of reading with the uncanny mitigates the otherness of texts even as it describes it. This mode of reading is also found within Freud's essay itself. The argument of the article takes it ever further outwards, from Rabinovici to Freud, his readers and, eventually, to contemporary postcritics in an effort to get outside reading itself. It circles back to Rabinovici to suggest a model of sense-making based on canniness, that is to say, a turn towards knowledge.