The Lacan–Badiou constellation in L’immanence des vérités: A limit on the infinite?

2022 ◽  
pp. 019145372110668
Author(s):  
Kirk Turner ◽  
Caitlyn Lesiuk
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Specific Relation ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Psychoanalysis And Philosophy

In Alain Badiou’s most recent work, L’immanence des vérités ( The Immanence of Truths), psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan once again figures peripherally but saliently. What is their specific relation in this text, however? We argue that Badiou responds here to the problem raised precisely by the Lacanian subject, situated as it is between the radical subjectivity of the symptom and the possibility of formalization. In L’immanence, he introduces the term ‘absoluteness’ to secure truths against both relativism and transcendental construction. We show that in drawing on Lacan to establish an understanding of the absolute, Badiou highlights the implicit tension between psychoanalysis and philosophy. We treat central cross-currents – truths, knowledge, the event and love – to help reveal the specific character of their confluence in this third book of Badiou’s trilogy. Although he stresses the unity of his and Lacan’s efforts, the impossible Real marking their divisions also invariably emerges the closer one investigates.

scholarly journals Poder e impoder de la muerte: al encuentro del escepticismo y el goce (concurrencias entre Jacques Lacan y G.W.F. Hegel)

2014 ◽  
pp. 119
Author(s):  
Lorena Souyris Oportot
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Death Drive ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The One ◽  
Psychoanalysis And Philosophy

Poder e impoder de la muerte: al encuentro del escepticismo y el goce (concurrencias entre Jacques Lacan y G.W.F. Hegel).Power and impower of death: to the encounter of skepticism and enjoyment. (concurrences between Jacques Lacan y G.W.F. Hegel).Recibido: 31/07/2013 ∙ Aceptado: 28/08/2013ResumenEl artículo es una tentativa para repensar, a partir de una frontera entre el psicoanálisis y la filosofía, el estatuto de la pulsión de muerte inscribién­dose, a partir de una confrontación entre intuiciones de Jacques Lacan y G.W.F. Hegel. En este diseño, el artículo se consagra como una explo­ración del «sentido» y las «posibilidades» de especulación alrededor de una ex-pulsión de muerte bajo una base escéptica en el significado lógico del término. Para ello, se propone, por una parte, explicar el lugar de la negatividad como aquello que da cuenta de la disolución y desaparición [l’Aufhebung] del sujeto del inconsciente. Y por otra parte, analizar el escepticismo como recurso para pensar la economía del goce lacaniano, en cuanto falta y disolución. Palabras clave: Escepticismo - pulsión de muerte - goce - sujeto barrado del inconsciente - negatividad. AbstractBased on the boarders between psychoanalysis and philosophy, this article is an attempt to re-think the principle of the death drive by confronting the approaches of Jacques Lacan and G.W.F. Hegel. This article explores“sense” and “possibilities” of speculation around and ex- death driveunder a logic-sceptical meaning of these concepts. The article explains,on the one hand, the place of negativity as accounting for the dissolutionand abolition [l’Aufhebung] of the unconscious subject; and on theother hand, it analysis scepticism as a resource to think the economy ofLacanian enjoyment.Keywords: Scepticism - death drive – enjoyment - abolition of the unconscioussubject - negativity

scholarly journals Paradoksy w Dźiwy Goswamina koncepcji duszy, drogi do doskonałości oraz wyzwolenia

Adeptus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dagmara Wasilewska
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Phenomenal World ◽  
Main Category ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
The Absolute

Paradoxes in Jīva Gosvāmi’s concept of the soul, path to perfection and liberationThis article is devoted to the role and significance of paradoxes in the philosophical thought and mysticism of the sixteenth-century Bengali Vaishnava theologian Jīva Gosvāmi. He situates his system within the Vedanta school, where the main category distinguishing its branches and deciding on their specific character is the relation between the Absolute, the phenomenal world and the human being. In Gosvāmi’s school, this relation involves identity and distinctness (bhedābheda) of those categories at the same time, referred to by the word acintya (“inaccessible to reason”), which further stresses this ontological paradox. Although doctrinally the most important, it is not the only paradox in Gosvami’s thought. Adopting this core metaphysical thesis engendered many other aporias, including those concerning the nature of the soul, the concept of bhakti (loving devotion to a deity) and the idea of liberation (mukti), which Goswami then attempts to solve in his most important philosophical treatise – Ṣaṭsandarbha. Paradoksy w Dźiwy Goswamina koncepcji duszy, drogi do doskonałości oraz wyzwoleniaPrzedmiotem artykułu jest rola i znaczenie paradoksów w myśli filozoficznej i mistyce teologa wisznuizmu bengalskiego – Dźiwy Goswamina (XVI w.). Sytuuje on swój system w obrębie szkoły wedanty, w której główną kategorią odróżniającą jej nurty i decydującą o ich specyfice jest relacja pomiędzy absolutem a światem zjawiskowym i człowiekiem. U Goswamina będzie to relacja jednoczesnej tożsamości i odrębności (bhedābheda) powyższych kategorii, dookreślona słowem acintya – „niedostępna rozumowi” – co dodatkowo uwydatnia ten ontologiczny paradoks. Chociaż doktrynalnie najistotniejszy, nie jest to jednak jedyny paradoks w myśli Goswamina. Poprzez przyjęcie tej nadrzędnej tezy metafizycznej powstało bowiem wiele innych aporii, między innymi dotyczących natury duszy, problemu wcielenia, a także koncepcji bhakti (nabożnego oddania dla bóstwa) oraz wyzwolenia (mukti), które następnie Goswamin stara się rozwiązać w swoim najważniejszym traktacie filozoficznym – Szatsandarbhsze.

scholarly journals ¿Cuándo una demostración es más perspicua que otra?

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Seoane
Keyword(s):  
Number Theory ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Mathematical Knowledge ◽  
Specific Relation ◽  
Relevant Task ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Elementary Result

Proofs contribute to mathematical knowledge in a richer way than through exclusively of their results. Then, a philosophically relevant task is to inquire how diverse demonstrations of the same result concretize that contribution. This essay compares (following a recent work by John Dawson) various demonstrations of an elementary result of number theory, regarding a specific relation: “. . . is more perspicuous than . . . ”. The main conclusion of this work aims to highlight (in the cases considered) the relevance of the analysis of the strategic and expressive contrasts and its peculiar dynamics, in the understanding of the relationship of perspicuity between proofs.

scholarly journals The secondary cathode rays expelled from metals by molybdenum K α radiations

1935 ◽  
Vol 149 (868) ◽  
pp. 587-595 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Photoelectric Effect ◽  
Specific Charge ◽  
Secondary Electrons ◽  
X Ray ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Gold Platinum

Kretschmar has recently described a series of accurate measurements of the energies of the electrons expelled by molybdenum K α 1 radiations from targets of gold, platinum, silver and copper. He deduced his electron energies from deflections in an accurately known magnetic field, and it is obviously important to compare his results with those of similar recent work in which other primary radiations (copper and chromium K-rays) were used to excite secondary electrons from the same targets. Kretschmar applies his results to the deduction of a value for the specific charge, e / m 0 , of the electron. In doing this he has to assume a value for e / h , as well as values of X-ray wave-lengths. He eliminates part (not all) of the effect of uncertainty in the absolute values of the wave-lengths by using the X-ray (inverse photoelectric effect) value for e / h . He takes, in fact, e / h = 7·2796 × 10 16 e. s. u. erg -1 sec -1 —the mean of the values given by Duane, Palmer and Yeh and by Feder. He then deduces, as the mean result of his own deflection experiments, 1·757 × 10 7 e. m. u. gm -1 as the most probable value of e / m 0 .

Russell on the Structure of Propositions

1998 ◽  
pp. 131-137
Author(s):  
Elena Tatievskaia
Keyword(s):  
Logical Structure ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
Specific Relation ◽  
Real Existence ◽  
External Relations ◽  
The Common ◽  
Epistemological Views

The comparison of Russell's views on semantics before 1905 with the theory of Frege allows one to expose the common sources of their interest in semantical problems and the specific character of their examination. During the investigation of the principles of mathematics and elaboration and realization of the program of logicism, questions regarding the logical structure of mathematical and logical propositions as well as the relation of linguistic signs and logical forms arise for both authors. Russell assumes the possibility of two kinds of analysis of the structure of propositions. One of them - by means of propositional functions - is analogous to Frege's analysis. But at first it is not accepted by Russell as fundamental. He prefers another kind of analysis, namely that by means of relations. This preference is conditioned in the first place by the intensional interpretation of propositions and in the second place by his ontological and epistemological views. These are based on the theory of external relations which implies the acceptance of real existence of particulars and of the specific relation of predication, resulting in the consideration of predicates as terms.)

On Katětov Spaces

1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 425-433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Porter ◽  
Mohan Tikoo
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Closed Subspace ◽  
Closed Space ◽  
Closed Set ◽  
Scattered Space ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
The Given

AbstractRecent work by Krystock, Porter, and Vermeer has emphasized the importance of the concepts of Katětov spaces and H-sets in the theory of H-closed spaces. These properties are closely related to being the θ-closure of some set and being the adherence of an open filter. This relationship is developed by establishing, among other facts, that an H-closed space in which every closed set is the θ-closure of some set is compact and the θ-closure of a subset of an H-closed space is Katětov and characterizing the open filter adhérences of a space as precisely those sets which are the image of a closed set of the absolute of the space. Also, examples are given of a countable, scattered space which is not Katětov and an H-closed space with an H-closed subspace which is not the θ-closure of any subset of the given space.

scholarly journals Preference vote and intra-party competition in open list PR systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Antonio Cheibub ◽  
Gisela Sin
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Absolute Number ◽  
Proportional Representation ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Intense Competition ◽  
The Absolute ◽  
Number Of Parties ◽  
Chamber Of Deputies ◽  
Legislative Parties

Open list proportional representation (PR) systems require that candidates seek personal votes in order to be successful. This feature of the system is considered to lead to intense competition among co-partisans and, ultimately, to weak electoral and legislative parties, narrow public policies, localism, clientelism, and corruption. We examine the distribution of personal votes among candidates from the same party for seven elections to the Brazilian national chamber of deputies (1990–2014). These elections are widely seen as hyper-competitive, particularly among candidates from the same list. Yet, the patterns in the data are not compatible with such a view. We find that the level of overall competition is considerably lower than the absolute number of parties and candidates competing would suggest. More significantly, we find that the number of viable candidates within party lists is limited and that their votes are distributed in such a way that indicates a contained competition among co-partisans during the election. These findings add to recent work that builds a more nuanced view of ballot structure, competition, and personalism.

scholarly journals ‘We’re in Asia’: Worlding LGBTQI+ activism otherwise in Sydney

Urban Studies ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 004209802096644
Author(s):  
Derek Ruez
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Specific Character ◽  
The West ◽  
Sydney Australia

Building on recent work in postcolonial urban studies that has developed more genuinely plural approaches to urban theorising, this article poses the problem of ‘worlding’ in relation to urban LGBTQI+ activism in Sydney, Australia. Specifically, the article examines how Sydney is variously worlded as or against ‘Asia’ in public debate around LGBTQI+ politics and in the imaginaries of activists living in Sydney. These worldings are shown to be an important aspect of queer activisms and urbanisms in Sydney, and I argue that attention to this worlding can productively complement a renewed focus on place and specificity in queer urban literatures. While imagining Sydney or Australia as part of Asia is itself no guarantee of productive politics or of decentring epistemologies, the article argues that some of these worldings do provide an occasion and a provocation to think elsewhere and otherwise in ways that are responsive to the specific character of White Australia’s colonial pasts and presents, while also generatively (dis)locating Sydney beyond the ‘West’.

5. On the Thermoelectric Properties of Iron

1889 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 127-129
Author(s):  
Tait
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Thermoelectric Properties ◽  
Indirect Method ◽  
Absolute Temperature ◽  
Thomson Effect ◽  
Working Hypothesis ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Absolute

For some time Signor Battelli has been engaged, with remarkable success, in measuring directly the amount of the ‘Thomson effect’ in various metals.With the exception of iron, the common metals have given him results coinciding as closely as could be expected with those I found in 1872 by an indirect method. Among other particularly satisfactory things, he has directly verified the first of the two changes of sign of the Thomson effect in nickel. And I think it will be allowed that what I introduced long ago as a mere working hypothesis,–that the Thomson effect is directly proportional to the absolute temperature,–if it was not completely established as a fact by my own experiments, has been made absolutely certain by the recent work of Campbell and of Battelli.

scholarly journals Editorial English

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Gildenir Carolino Santos
Keyword(s):  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Gilles Deleuze ◽  
Experience Report ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Great Satisfaction ◽  
Psychoanalysis And Philosophy

With great satisfaction, we are opening 2010 year with this special issue, "Psychoanalysis and Philosophy: possible dialog?” with 15 studies: five articles, nine dossier texts and one experience report. Here we are addressing the representativity of two areas of the knowledge field: psychoanalysis and philosophy. In the dialogues outlined in this special issue, several authors have brought their contributions from different places and countries: Uruguay, Brazil and England. With this, we could devise an opening cover for the journal representing psychoanalysts and philosophers of the involved areas, discussed in several papers in this number: Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Friedrich Niestche, as a link among these authors in this puzzle.

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