Jacques Lacan

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances L. Restuccia
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
As If

Agamben only sporadically alludes to psychoanalysis and invokes psychoanalytic concepts. He does so most prominently in Stanzas, where he dedicates Part III to ‘geniisque Henry Corbin et Jacques Lacan‘ (S 61); refers to ‘the Lacanian thesis according to which […] the phantasm makes the pleasure suited to the desire’, in order to elaborate a point in Plato about desire and pleasure relying on images in the soul (S 74); and takes up melancholia and fetishism – both of which, it is important to note, circumvent lack. But Agamben is by no means ‘psychoanalytic’. He presents and employs melancholia and fetishism as paradigms for accessing the inaccessible (perhaps we can say that he plays with them). Melancholia, in Agamben, becomes an ‘imaginative capacity to make an unobtainable object appear as if lost’ so that it ‘may be appropriated insofar as it is lost’ (S 20), a strategy for saving the unsavable that evolves into his conception of the messianic. And, although Agamben is preoccupied with ‘a zone of non-consciousness’, he underscores that it is ‘not the fruit of a removal, like the unconscious of psychoanalysis’ (UB 64)

Contraversy in the Nursery; or, A Brace of Basterds

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-243
Author(s):  
Justin Clemens ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Unconscious

The controversies unleashed by psychoanalysis never seem to stop repeating themselves. If what psychoanalysis has to say is true, then, by its own lights, it has to be controversial. Controversies are thus a privileged place to see this truth and this resistance in violent and lurid action. Take infant experience and bastardry. Every kid is a bit of a bastard, and the establishment of this infantile bastardry conditions subsequent repetitions of the organism: that breast is persecuting me, these are not my real parents, I did not borrow your kettle. Just how much of a bastard is this baby? The answers psychoanalysis comes up with depend on how it formulates the vicissitudes of differential repetitions, formations of the unconscious. Yet there remains something puzzling about repetition: if eros is constantly getting itself into nasty situations as a matter of course, are there still other factors (perhaps even more sinister) at work? Because of his refusal to dismiss his own puzzlement, Jacques Lacan persistently returned to the relation between desire and drive, reformulating his own theory as he went. At one moment, as we shall see, he comes to discriminate between a surprising number of (at least 3!) kinds of death.

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

The Subversion of Plato's Quasi-Phenomenology and Mytho-Poetics in the Symposium

Janus Head ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-76
Author(s):  
Bert Olivier ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Tradition ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The One

Is there a significant difference between Plato's texts and what is known as 'Platonism', that is, the philosophical tradition that claims Plato as its progenitor? Focusing on the Symposium, an attempt is made here to show that, far from merely fitting neatly into the categories of Platonism—with its neat distinction between the super-sensible and the sensible—Plato's own text is a complex, tension-filled terrain of countervailing forces. In the Symposium this tension obtains between the perceptive insights, on the one hand, into the nature of love and beauty, as well as the bond between them, and the metaphysical leap, on the other hand, from the experiential world to a supposedly accessible, but by definition super-sensible, experience-transcending realm. It is argued that, instead of being content with the philosophical illumination of the ambivalent human condition—something consummately achieved by mytho-poetic and quasi-phenomenohgical means—Plato turns to a putatively attainable, transcendent source of metaphysical reassurance which, moreover, displays all the trappings of an ideological construct. This is demonstrated by mapping Plato's lover's vision of 'absolute beauty' on to what Jacques Lacan has characterized as the unconscious structural quasi-condition of all religious and ideological illusion.

Psychoanalysis and International Development

2020 ◽  
pp. 3-31
Author(s):  
Ilan Kapoor
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
Development Discourse ◽  
Ideology Critique ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Blind Spots

This chapter examines the contributions of psychoanalysis to international development, illustrating ways in which thinking and practice in this field are psychoanalytically structured. Drawing mainly on the work of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj Žižek, it emphasizes three key points. First, psychoanalysis can help uncover the unconscious of development — its gaps, dislocations, blind spots — thereby elucidating the latter's contradictory and seemingly “irrational” practices. Second, the important psychoanalytic notion of jouissance (enjoyment) can help explain why development discourse endures, that is, why it has such sustained appeal, and why we continue to invest in it despite its many problems. Third, psychoanalysis can serve as an important tool for ideology critique, helping to expose the socioeconomic contradictions and antagonisms that development persistently disavows. The chapter then reflects on the limits of psychoanalysis — the extent to which it is gendered and, given its Western origins, universalizable.

Heideggerian Psychiatry? The Freudian Unconscious in Medard Boss and Jacques Lacan

1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-160
Author(s):  
Richard Boothby
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Relevance ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Alternative Approach

AbstractThis paper examines Medard Boss's rejection of the Freudian unconscious. Boss's position is criticized for its failure to do justice to the clinical relevance of the unconscious and to provide adequate answers to key theoretical questions. An alternative approach to the concept of the unconscious is sought in the work of the French analyst, Jacques Lacan.

Today's Counter Culture: The Radical Reformation as Analogue? (Preliminary Abstract)

1971 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-56
Author(s):  
Paul Peachey
Keyword(s):  
Human Behavior ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Empirical Methods ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Social Existence ◽  
Radical Reformation ◽  
Counter Culture ◽  
New Phase ◽  
As If

With Marx's assertion that social existence determines the consciousness of men rather than the reverse, the ancient debate concerning freedom and necessity entered a new phase. Yet another dimension was added when Freud discovered the unconscious powers of the psyche. Subsequently, although thought has vacillated between the sociological and the psychological modes of analysis, both have underscored the deterministic sources of human behavior. Meanwhile, as if this were not enough, the assimilation of human behavior to nature, and thus also to the empirical methods of science and technology, has assured the total triumph of determinism.

Christless Christianity

1912 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-473 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin B. Warfield
Keyword(s):  
Tidal Wave ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
As If

The Christ Myth by Arthur Drews was published early in 1909, and before the year was out its author was being requisitioned by dissidents from Christianity of the most incongruous types as a promising instrument for the general anti-christian propaganda. Few more remarkable spectacles have ever been witnessed than the exploitation throughout Germany in the opening months of 1910 of this hyper-idealistic metaphysician, disciple of von Hartmann and convinced adherent of the “Philosophy of the Unconscious,” by an Alliance the declared basis of whose organization is a determinate materialism. As, under the auspices of the Monistenbund, he made his progress from city to city, lecturing and debating, he drew a tidal-wave of sensation along with him. A violent literary war was inaugurated. It seemed as if all theological Germany were aroused.

scholarly journals "O inconsciente é Baltimore, ao amanhecer"

2005 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 100-106
Author(s):  
Márcia Rosa
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Definition Of

Resumo: Este artigo discute uma definição do inconsciente, proposta por Jacques Lacan em 1966, e comenta o retorno à poética nas publicações contemporâneas.Palavras-chave: inconsciente; Lacan; retorno à poética.Abstract: This paper discusses a definition of the unconscious, proposed by Jacques Lacan in 1966, and comments the returnal to the poetics in the contemporary publications.Keywords: inconscious; Jacques Lacan; returnal to the poetics.

scholarly journals Jocasta’s kinsfolk: Marx, Freud and Oedipus among contemporary antiphilosophers

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-30
Author(s):  
Borislav Mikulic
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Self ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
General Rules ◽  
Academic Philosophy ◽  
Metaphorical Analysis

The text deals with the recently renewed issue of ?antiphilosophy? in the self-understanding of some prominent contemporary continental philosophers but not only them, such as Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek, both referring to the psychoanalyst and theoretician of discourse Jacques Lacan. Starting with a metaphorical analysis of the verdict made by Marx of ?merely interpretive? character of philosophy in relation to ?the study of real world? and with his comparison of philosophy with ?masturbation?, the text addresses new appeals to ?antiphilosophy? as samples of a token or rather, as cases of a syndrome connected with Jocasta?s rationalization of Oedipus? curse. It was her discourse based on general rules of rationality with which she unconsciously attempted to avoid the confrontation with the truth of an event (incestuous marriage) which had already occurred. In the text, presuppositions and consequences of such an analogy between ancient and contemporary philosophical material are discussed in order to show-on the basis of arguing that the unconscious is located within (and not beyond) rational processes that subjects undertake in order to respond to rational needs (viz. impulses of the Ego)-that contemporary discussion about ?antiphilosophy? by left-wing philosophers bears unacknowledged tendencies to unconsciously reduce Marx? algorithm of ?realization of philosophy? to the Hegelian negation of the negation and to integrate it into the discourse of academic philosophy.

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