DOCSLIB.ORG

Introduction

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Introduction Notes Introduction 1. References to those of Lacan’s seminars that have been published take the form ‘S’ followed by the relevant seminar number and page number, as in ‘Sx, p. x’. Details as to the publication status of the seminars referenced can be found in the Bibliography. All references to the unpublished seminars are to Cormac Gallagher’s unofficial translations, with references following the form ‘Sx, lesson of date month year’. All references to published seminars are to Jacques- Alain Miller’s edited series, with references to the English version where available. I have sometimes made use of Gallagher’s translations even where a published seminar exists in French. All references to Lacan’s Écrits are to Bruce Fink’s 2006 English translation; publication details are located in the bibliography under ‘Abbreviations’. 2. Lacan’s orientation of psychoanalytic theory away from the ego as the proper seat of the subject, and from any psychoanalytic practice that would shore up the ego, is reflected in his long rhetorical battle with ‘ego psychology’ as developed initially by Heinz Hartmann from Anna Freud’s work on defence mechanisms, and is reflected more generally in his hostility to any attempt to link psychoanalytic practice with the adaptation of the subject to the norms of wider society. See S1, p. 11; A. Freud, The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense: The Writings of Anna Freud, vol. 2 (New York: International Universities Press Inc., 1971); H. Hartmann, Ego Psychology and the Problem of Adaptation (New York: International Universities Press Inc., 1968); P. Van- Haute, Against Adaptation: Lacan’s ‘Subversion of the Subject’ (New York: Other Press, 2002). 3. C. Shepherdson, Vital Signs: Nature, Culture, Psychoanalysis (New York: Routledge, 2000), p. 57. 4. P. Verhaeghe, ‘Causality in Science and Psychoanalysis’, in J. Glynos and Y. Stavrakakis (ed.), Lacan and Science (London: Karnac, 2002), p. 126. 5. M. de Kesel, Eros and Ethics: Reading Jacques Lacan’s Seminar VII (Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 2009), p. 88. 6. Ibid., pp. 88–9. 7. In this, my book could be considered to be in the recent lineage of philosophical readings of Lacan by young scholars, distinguished by their immanent reconstruction of Lacanian theory as an alternative to philosophical comparativism. Three representative, and no doubt supe- rior, texts are P. Van- Haute, Against Adaptation; L. Chiesa, Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007); and E. Pluth, Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject (Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 2007). 8. In 1953, Lacan writes of the subject’s ‘satisfactions whose objects are in the Real, plain and simple’ ( J. Lacan, ‘The Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real’, unpublished translation by Scott Savaiano; French text available as 165 166 Notes ‘Le symbolique, l’imaginaire et le rèel’ in Bulletin de l’Association Freudienne 1, pp. 4–13). A similar conflation of the Real with the commonsensical notion of ‘reality’ can be found in the multiple references to the ‘real object’ in Lacan’s first seminar, where the substantive nonetheless also operates as part of the triad of the Symbolic, the Imaginary and the Real, and thus as distinct from any notion of ‘reality’ (S1, passim). 9. Especially in the articles ‘Aggressiveness in Psychoanalysis’ (Écrits, pp. 82–102) and ‘The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience’ (Écrits, pp. 75–82); see Chapter 1 in this book. 10. S1, p. 206. 11. F. de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics (London: Peter Owen, 1974). 12. See, in particular, Lacan’s appropriation of Aristotle’s distinction between ‘tuche’ and ‘automaton’ in S11, p. 53. 13. Jacqueline Rose, ‘Introduction: II’, in J. Mitchell and J. Rose, Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the école Freudienne (New York: Macmillan, 1982), p. 56. 14. L. Mulvey, ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, Screen 16(3) (1975), pp. 6–18. 15. See, among a number of relevant articles by MacCabe, ‘Theory and Film: Principles of Realism and Pleasure’, Screen 17(3) (1976), pp. 7–28; the gen- eral ethos of Screen’s marriage of post- Althusserian Marxist criticism and psychoanalytic theory was laid out in R. Coward and J. Ellis, Language and Materialism: Developments in Semiology and the Theory of the Subject (London: Routledge, 1977). 16. See P. Dews, Logics of Disintegration: Poststructuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory, 2nd edn (New York: Verso, 2007 [1987]); D. Macey, Lacan in Contexts (New York: Verso, 1988); M. Bowie, Lacan (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1993). 17. Malcolm Bowie, ‘Lacan After the Fall: An Interview with Malcolm Bowie’, in M. Bowie, Psychoanalysis and the Future of Theory (Oxford: Blackwell, 1993), p. 148. 18. S. Žižek, The Sublime Object of Ideology (London: Verso, 1989). 19. See, in particular, J. Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex’ (New York: Routledge, 1993); J. Gallop, The Daughter’s Seduction: Feminism and Psychoanalysis (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986). Butler’s influential critique of Lacan centres on the supposed fixity of his concept of Symbolic law: ‘the symbolic law in Lacan can be subject to the same kind of critique that Nietzsche formulated of the notion of God: the power attributed to this prior and ideal power is derived and deflected from the attribution itself’. I would want, with Žižek and others, to emphasize, by contrast, that aspect of Lacan’s account of the Symbolic that foregrounds the substantial inexistence of the law that Lacan represents in the matheme for the ‘barred Other’ in the graph of desire constructed in ‘The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire’ (Écrits, pp. 671–703). There is, of course, a strong current of feminist thought that draws positively on Lacan, including E. Grosz, Jacques Lacan: A Feminist Introduction (New York: Routledge, 1990); J. Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990); K. Campbell, Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology (New York: Routledge, 2004). Notes 167 20. Many of Žižek’s most sustained readings of politics via Lacanian concepts, taking in his gradual move away from Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe’s ‘radical democracy’ and towards Marxism, can be found in the collection S. Žižek, The Universal Exception: Selected Writings, eds R. Butler and S. Stephens (London: Continuum, 2006). 21. See J.-A. Miller, ‘Matrix’, Lacanian Ink 12 (Fall) (1997), pp. 45–51; J.-A. Miller, ‘Jacques Lacan’, Psychoanalytic Notebooks of the London Circle 8 (2002), pp. 9–22; J.-A. Miller, ‘H20: Suture in Obsessionality’, Hystoria: Lacan Study Notes 6–9 (1988), pp. 34–44. Miller provides a particularly formalistic reading of Lacan, and it is arguably Miller who has most influentially propagated the notion that Lacan’s seminars of the 1970s, in their supposed turn defini- tively towards the Real, mark a break in his work, an argument that I attempt to counter. Miller’s latter argument is expressed most plainly in his ‘Lacan’s Later Teaching’, although there he also emphasizes the continuity underly- ing the different phases of Lacan’s teaching and openly labels his isolation of a ‘late Lacan’ as a ‘biographical construction’: ‘there is something called Lacan’s late teaching, so called because I have isolated it with this signifier, giving it ex- sistence … I’ve thus isolated a cut that individualizes his later teaching. Isolating it this way is a biographical construction. How can we describe this cut? It isn’t obvious; it is bound up on continuity’ ( J.-A. Miller, ‘Lacan’s Later Teaching’, trans. Barbara P. Fulks, Lacanian Ink 20 (Spring) (2002), p. 4). 22. This conflation is seen most clearly in The Parallax View, where Žižek’s project to create a simultaneously Hegelian and Lacanian logic of contin- gency reaches its apotheosis. The following quote, ostensibly a reflection on Kant and Hegel, is highly similar to descriptions elsewhere of Lacan, especially of the non- existence of Lacan’s ‘big Other’: ‘there is nothing “beyond”, the “Beyond” is only the void of the impossibility/failure of its own representation – or, as Hegel put it at the end of the chapter on con- sciousness in his Phenomenology of Spirit, beyond the veil of phenomena, the consciousness finds only what it itself has put there’ (S. Žižek, The Parallax View (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006), pp. 389–90, n. 19). Compare with the following on Lacan: ‘The final dénouement of The Golden Bowl offers no solution proper, no act that would tear the web of lies apart, or in Lacanian terms, would disclose the big Other’s non-existence’ (The Parallax View, p. 143). 23. A. Johnston, Žižek’s Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2008). 24. A. Johnston, Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2005). 25. A. Zupancˇicˇ, Ethics of the Real: Kant and Lacan (New York: Verso, 2000). 26. C. Shepherdson, Vital Signs; C. Shepherdson, Lacan and the Limits of Language (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008); J. Copjec, Read my Desire: Lacan against the Historicists (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996); J. Copjec, Imagine there’s No Woman: Ethics and Sublimation (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004). 27. For a critical account of the French feminist use of ‘sex’, see S. Sandford, ‘Sex: A Transdisciplinary Concept’, Radical Philosophy 165( January/February) (2011). 168 Notes 28. G. Le Gaufey, Le pas- tout de Lacan (Paris: EPEL, 2006). See especially the chapter ‘Towards a Critical Reading of the Formulas of Sexuation’, an English translation of which is available at www.lacaninireland.com/web/ wp-content/uploads/2010/06/ TOWARDS- A- CRITICAL- READING-2506.pdf.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Freud on Time and Timelessness: the Ancient Greek Influence
    ORBIT-OnlineRepository ofBirkbeckInstitutionalTheses Enabling Open Access to Birkbeck’s Research Degree output Freud on time and timelessness: the ancient Greek influence https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/40071/ Version: Full Version Citation: Noel-Smith, Kelly Ann (2014) Freud on time and timelessness: the ancient Greek influence. [Thesis] (Unpublished) c 2020 The Author(s) All material available through ORBIT is protected by intellectual property law, including copy- right law. Any use made of the contents should comply with the relevant law. Deposit Guide Contact: email Freud on Time and Timelessness: the Ancient Greek Influence A dissertation presented by Kelly Ann Noel-Smith in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Birkbeck College, University of London January 2014 Declaration I declare that the work presented in this thesis is my own. …………………………………………………… ………………… 2014 Kelly Ann Noel-Smith © 2014 Kelly Noel-Smith. All rights reserved. 2 Kelly Noel-Smith Freud on Time and Timelessness: the Ancient Greek Influence Abstract This thesis turns on two assumptions: first, that there is a current absence within the psychoanalytic library of a consolidated account of Freud's theories of time and timelessness; second, that there is compelling evidence of an influence by the ancient Greek canon on Freud's metapsychology of time. The thesis is that a detailed examination of this influence will bring additional clarity to our understanding of Freud’s thoughts about time and timelessness and permit the provision of the currently lacking systematic account of this part of his theory. The author brings the three components of the Greek canon most important to Freud - myth, tragedy and philosophy – into dialogue with psychoanalysis to show the importance of their influence on Freud's ideas on temporality.
    [Show full text]
  • Gender, Sexuality and the Theory of Seduction
    J O H N F L E T C H E R .................................................................................................................................................. Gender, Sexuality and the Theory of Seduction o readdress the conjunction of psychoanalysis and gender one must first pose the question as to whether psychoanalysis is, or has, or can be expected to Tprovide, a theory of gender as such. For it was in something like that hope that certain forms of feminism and radical social theory turned to psycho- analysis in the 1970s. Is gender, however, a properly psychoanalytic or metapsychological category? Or, rather, does not psychoanalysis borrow the categories of masculine and feminine from the life-world of social practice and its ideologies, even at times from the theories of sociology, just as it purloins certain theoretical concepts and categories of biology and physi- ology with their accounts of the body and its functions of self-preservation? However, psychoanalysis borrows and purloins understandings of both gender and the body in order to give an account of something else: something that indeed bears on how we live subjectively our gendered and embodied lives, although this cannot make of psychoanalysis a substitute for an explanation of the social production of gender categories and gendered positions within the various fields of social practice, anymore than psycho- analysis can be a substitute for a science of the body and its developmental and self-preservative functioning. This something else is the unconscious and sexuality, the object of psychoanalysis. I want provisionally to hold apart, to separate at least analytically gender, sexuality and sexual difference, in order to interrupt the too easy assimilation ............................................................................................................................................................................
    [Show full text]
  • Johnny Foreigner
    REVIEWS Johnny foreigner Simon Glendinning, ed., The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1999. xiv + 685 pp., £80.00 hb., 0 7486 0783 8. If the Encyclopédie project of Diderot et al. is quotes Ryle (of whom one might have expected better) remembered today, it is not because it is much con- addressing an audience in France at a supposedly sulted, but for the tremendous Enlightenment optimism bridge-building conference in 1958, explaining how that made its conception (if not its completion) pos- analytic philosophers have avoided the puff and pre- sible. In historical terms, it is the idea of the Ency- tension of the continent. In contrast to the likes of clopédie that is most important, not what is contained Husserl, says Ryle, within the volumes themselves. The idea of the or British thinkers have showed no inclination to even an Encyclopedia is, however, beginning to look assimilate philosophical to scientific enquiry.… increasingly like a Borgesian fantasy. Most contem- I guess that our thinkers have been immunized porary encyclopedias are decidedly (purposefully) against the idea of philosophy as the Mistress of limited in scope; to be successful they must function, Science by the fact that their daily lives in Cam- bridge and Oxford Colleges have kept them in con- immediately and with some enduring relevance, as tact with real scientists. Claims to Führership vanish sources of reference and information to be used in when postprandial joking begins. Husserl wrote as if piecemeal fashion. To this extent, The Edinburgh he had never met a scientist – or a joke.
    [Show full text]
  • Freud on Time and Timelessness: the Ancient Greek In- fluence
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Online Repository of Birkbeck Institutional Theses ORBIT - Online Repository of Birkbeck Institutional Theses Enabling Open Access to Birkbecks Research Degree output Freud on time and timelessness: the ancient Greek in- fluence http://bbktheses.da.ulcc.ac.uk/71/ Version: Full Version Citation: Noel-Smith, Kelly Ann (2014) Freud on time and timelessness: the an- cient Greek influence. PhD thesis, Birkbeck, University of London. c 2014 The Author(s) All material available through ORBIT is protected by intellectual property law, including copyright law. Any use made of the contents should comply with the relevant law. Deposit guide Contact: email Freud on Time and Timelessness: the Ancient Greek Influence A dissertation presented by Kelly Ann Noel-Smith in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Birkbeck College, University of London January 2014 Declaration I declare that the work presented in this thesis is my own. …………………………………………………… ………………… 2014 Kelly Ann Noel-Smith © 2014 Kelly Noel-Smith. All rights reserved. 2 Kelly Noel-Smith Freud on Time and Timelessness: the Ancient Greek Influence Abstract This thesis turns on two assumptions: first, that there is a current absence within the psychoanalytic library of a consolidated account of Freud's theories of time and timelessness; second, that there is compelling evidence of an influence by the ancient Greek canon on Freud's metapsychology of time. The thesis is that a detailed examination of this influence will bring additional clarity to our understanding of Freud’s thoughts about time and timelessness and permit the provision of the currently lacking systematic account of this part of his theory.
    [Show full text]
  • 9781782206521.Pdf
    Ferenczi’s Influence on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Traditions This collection covers the great variety topics relevant for understanding the importance of Sándor Ferenczi and his influence on contemporary psychoanalysis. Pre-eminent Ferenczi scholars were solicited to contribute succinct reviews of their fields of expertise. The book is divided in five sections. ‘The historico-biographical’ describes Ferenczi’s childhood and student days, his marriage, brief analyses with Freud, his correspondences and contributions to the daily press in Budapest, exploration of his patients’ true identities, and a paper about his untimely death. ‘The development of Ferenczi’s ideas’ reviews his ideas before his first encounter with psychoanalysis, his relationship with peers, friendship with Groddeck, emancipation from Freud, and review of the importance of his Clinical Diary. The third section reviews Ferenczi’s clinical concepts and work: trauma, unwelcome child, wise baby, identification with aggressor, mutual analysis, and many others. In ‘Echoes’, we follow traces of Ferenczi’s influence on virtually all traditions in contemporary psychoanalysis: interpersonal, independent, Kleinian, Lacanian, relational, etc. Finally, there are seven ‘application’ chapters about Ferenczi’s ideas and the issues of politics, gender and development. Aleksandar Dimitrijević, PhD, is interim professor of psychoanalysis and clinical psychology at the International Psychoanalytic University, Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Belgrade Psychoanalytical Society (IPA) and Faculty at the Serbian Association of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapists (EFPP), and the editor or co-editor of ten books or special journal issues, as well as author of many conceptual and empirical papers, about attachment theory and research, psychoanalytic education, psychoanalysis and the arts. Gabriele Cassullo is a psychologist, psychotherapist, doctor in research in human sciences and interim professor in psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Turin.
    [Show full text]
  • Curriculum and the Holocaust: Competing Sites of Memory and *Representation
    Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 1999 Curriculum and the Holocaust: Competing Sites of Memory and *Representation. Marla Beth Morris Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Morris, Marla Beth, "Curriculum and the Holocaust: Competing Sites of Memory and *Representation." (1999). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 7112. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/7112 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand comer and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps.
    [Show full text]
  • Newsletter-11. Terapéutas Y Psicoterapéutas. BIOGRAFÍA
    TERAPÉUTAS Y PSICOTERAPÉUTAS. News. ALSF Nº 11. BIOGRAFÍA MARTIN STANTON. (1952-) Nace el 21 de marzo de 1950 en Inglaterra, y pasó gran parte de los años 70 entrenando para ser analista en París, y estudiando en la Ecole Normale Superieure, donde asistió a clases y conferencias de Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari y Michel Foucault, cuyas enseñanzas resuenan de diversas maneras en sus posteriores producciones intelectuales. En París, Stanton también se vinculó estrechamente con el trabajo del psicoanalista francés Jean Laplanche y, a través de él, se involucró activamente en fecundos debates sobre el papel central del nachträglich en el proceso psicológico inconsciente del trauma, los que posteriormente serían constitutivos de las ideas por él elaboradas, especialmente en relación con las nuevas teorías sobre la seducción. Hacia 1983, publica su primer libro, Outside the Dream: Lacan and French Styles of Psychoanalysis, donde originalmente exploró de manera asociativa el impacto vital del pensamiento lacaniano en el psicoanálisis contemporáneo de ese momento (cuando Lacan era en gran parte desconocido en el mundo de habla inglesa); el libro es igualmente un relato poético del propio compromiso personal temprano de Stanton con el psicoanálisis. Después de este libro, escribió Sandor Ferenczi: Reconsidering Active Intervention (1991), que fue el primer estudio importante del pionero psicoanalista húngaro en el Reino Unido, que se sumó a los esfuerzos del grupo Le Coq’heron, liderado por Judith Dupont, y de Arnold Rachman en USA que impulsaron
    [Show full text]
  • The Fragility of Manhood
    The Fragility of Manhood TheHAWTHORNE, Fragility FREUD, AND T HE PofOLITICS OFManhood GENDER David Greven THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS · COLUMBUS Copyright © 2012 by The Ohio State University. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greven, David. The fragility of manhood : Hawthorne, Freud, and the politics of gender / David Greven. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8142-1200-4 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-8142-9301-0 (cd) 1. Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804–1864—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Psychological fic- tion, American—History and criticism. 3. Psychology in literature. 4. Narcissism in litera- ture. 5. Masculinity in literature. I. Title. PS1892.P74G74 2012 813'.3—dc23 2012021599 Cover design by Judith Arisman Text design by Juliet Williams Type set in Adobe Garamond Pro Printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48-1992. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Acknowledgments vii INTRODUCTION The Paradox of Desire 1 CHAPTER 1 Paradise Lost: Hawthorne’s Traumatic Narcissism 24 CHAPTER 2 As His Mother Loved Him: “The Gentle Boy” and Freud’s Theory of Male Homosexuality 40 CHAPTER 3 Revising the Oedipal Hawthorne: Criticism and the Forms of Narcissism 69 CHAPTER 4 Struck by the Mask: Narcissism, Shame, Masculinity, and the Dread of the Visual 91 CHAPTER 5 In a Pig’s Eye: Masculinity, Mastery, and the Returned Gaze of The Blithedale Romance 114 CHAPTER 6 The Gaze in the Garden: Femininity, Fetishism, and Tradition in “Rappaccini’s Daughter” 141 vi • CONTENTS CHAPTER 7 Visual Identity: Hawthorne, Melville, and Classical Male Beauty 180 CHAPTER 8 A Certain Dark Beauty: Narcissism, Form, and Race in Hawthorne’s Late Work 210 EPILOGUE The Haunted Verge: Aesthetics, Desire, History 243 Notes 255 Bibliography 292 Index 306 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It took more than one Hawthorne conference to turn me into the author of this book.
    [Show full text]
  • The Psychic Life of Power Theories in Subjection
    The Psychic Life of Power Theories in Subjection Judith Butler Stanford University Press Stanford, California Acknowledgments Stanford University Press This work was generously sponsored by a Humanities Re- Stanford, California search Fellowship from the University of California at Berke- © 1997 by the Board of Trustees of the ley. I am grateful to those friends and colleagues who gave Leland Stanford Junior University incisive readings of some of the chapters: Wendy Brown, Printed in the United States of America William Connolly, David Palumbo-Liu, Kaja Silverman, Anne cip data appear at the end of the book Norton, Denise Riley, and Hayden White, as well as the stu- dents who participated in "Social Subjects / Psychic States" at Berkeley. I thank Adam Phillips for his permission to reprint our exchange from Psychoanalytic Dialogues in this context. I also thank Helen Tartar for her meticulous, intelligent, and thoroughgoing editing, and Gayle Salamon for her assistance with the manuscript. Contents Introduction 1 1 Stubborn Attachment, Bodily Subjection Rereading Hegel on the Unhappy Consciousness 31 2 Circuits of Bad Conscience Nietzsche and Freud 63 3 Subjection, Resistance, Resignification Between Freud and Foucault 83 4 "Conscience Doth Make Subjects of Us All" Althusser's SuBjection io6 5 Melancholy Gender / Refused Identification 132 Keeping It Moving Commentary on Judith Butler, By Adam Phillips 151 Reply to Adam Phillips 16o 6 Psychic Inceptions Melancholy, AmBivalence, Rage 167 Notes 201 Index 217 The Psychic Life of Power Theories in Subjection Introduction We should try to grasp subjection in its material instance as a constitution of subjects. —Michel Foucault, "Two Lectures" The splitting of the subject, within which the self as present to itself is only one moment, and the charged reflexivity of that moment, is the point of purchase within the subject of its subjection.
    [Show full text]
  • Lacan, "Discours De Rome" P.62
    Lacan, "Discours de Rome" p.62. Many of Singer’s protagonists have thia Janus-like characteristic of the gaze. The central character of "A Party in Miami Beach" presents us with a typical example of the scopic split: "Max Flederbush tried to smile. One eye laughed, the other cried" {OL88), while another man, described in "A Friend of Kafka" exhibits the scopic intensity of a cyclops: "One eye wag larger than the other - red, bulging, frightened by its own vision” (FK17). And the title character of "The Letter Writer" compensates with the ferocity of his glance for the decrepitude of his flesh: "The remaining strength in Herman Combiner’s body - a body worn out by illnesses and undernourishment - seemed to be concentrated in his gaze" (S209 ). Steiner, Extra-territorial p.81. Martin Stanton, Outside the Dream (London: Houtledge and Kegan Paul, 1983 ) p.30. The full quotation reads as follows; "Words represented the repressed. They stood in place of, they indicated something else, they displaced, condensed, split or denied." Moreover, according to Freud in his the token, the mark of mental disease, as in this statement on the aetiology of schizophrenia: If we ask ourselves what it is that gives the character of strangeness to the substitutive formation and the symptom in schizophrenia, we eventually come to realise that it Is the predominance of what has to do with words over what has to do with things. (On Hetapsychology p. 206). Forrester, Language and the Origins of Psychoanalysis The concept of the speaking symptom alluded to here must be aligned with the notion of meaning which circulates and which may be constrained only through the limitations of the speaker.
    [Show full text]
  • Althusser and Lacan on Ideology
    Loyola University Chicago Loyola eCommons Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 2012 A Structuralist Controversy: Althusser and Lacan on Ideology Won Choi Loyola University Chicago Follow this and additional works at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss Part of the Social Psychology Commons Recommended Citation Choi, Won, "A Structuralist Controversy: Althusser and Lacan on Ideology" (2012). Dissertations. 297. https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss/297 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at Loyola eCommons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Loyola eCommons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. Copyright © 2011 Won Choi LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO A STRUCTURALIST CONTROVERSY: ALTHUSSER AND LACAN ON IDEOLOGY A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL IN CANDIDACY FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY PROGRAM IN PHILOSOPHY BY WON CHOI CHICAGO, IL MAY 2012 Copyright by Won Choi, 2012 All rights reserved. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Acknowledgements are due to Éditions du Seuil for permission to reproduce figures from the following two books: Jacques Lacan, Le Séminaire, Livre V: les formations de l’inconscient , éd. Jacques-Alain Miller (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1998) and Jacques Lacan, Le Séminaire, Livre XXIII: le synthome , éd. Jaccques-Alain Miller (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 2005). Acknowledgements are due to Norton for permission to reproduce figures from the following two books: Jacques Lacan, Écrits: The Complete Edition , trans. Bruce Fink (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006) and Jacques Lacan, The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis (The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XI) , ed.
    [Show full text]