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2022 ◽  
pp. 019145372110668
Author(s):  
Kirk Turner ◽  
Caitlyn Lesiuk

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.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Madeleine LeMieux

"The mothership is a homebase. It is the site of return, of respite, of comfort when no other is possible. It bears connotations of care but also of military operations (naval ships), and of the otherworldly (UFOs). Regardless of its application, the mothership exists for the support of other entities; it does not exist without its dependents. Perhaps this is why the term 'mothership' is also used as one of endearment for human mothers. Her gravid state extends well into the life of her children as they first cling to and then orbit her. With their orbits widening as they grow and change from baby to child, child to teen, and from teen into adult, their states fluctuate while even after they have left home and possibly started families of their own, the woman remains 'mother'. The condition of 'mother' is constant. Even before a woman becomes a mother, there is a societal expectation that this is her inevitable state, that it is her natural place and role to inhabit. ... It is therefore important to me that, through my artwork and corresponding research, these ideas be addressed and pushed against using formal and theoretical mechanisms. To accomplish this in this writing, I consider the position of the relationships between viewer and subjects through an analysis of "the maternal gaze", the internal relationship between subjects through what could be described as an analysis of "intersubjectivity," and an analysis of the idea of holding multiple positions simultaneously as "maternal ambivalence". These ideas are rooted in maternal theory, which works relationally across disciplines, and takes up residence in practices of visual and critical studies, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. Facets of this research address domestic space as the site of my work and this locale's relationship to maternal identity. Vernacular technology, provisional craft, painting and processes through which these ideas are mediated are discussed throughout this paper. Mediation here taking on both definitions of the term: remediation (the literal representation of media through other media) and intervention (to interrupt with the purpose of altering the result) are present in the work. You can see that in portions of the image-objects, photography has been representationally painted, or it has been blocked by stitching, stuffing or painting, and in other locations it has been left to exist as photographic. These combinations of processes serve to convey ideas of maternal practice in formal ways and aim to reposition contemporary maternity as a cybernetic hybrid between natural and artificial. The following document was prepared and presented to demonstrate my research during the course of my graduate study at the University of Missouri. It includes reflection upon the work I created during this time, a culminating artist statement and a significant buttress of theoretical underpinnings and artistic investigation which throughout my time in this program has spanned issues of bias inherent in social technology, consent and capitalism, assumptions about pleasure and pain, vulnerability and language, anxiety about the future, and finally landed on maternal ambivalence, which seemed to embody all of these ideas. I present this work as a synthesis of the last 4 years, wherein I allowed myself to experiment and research freely, and with guidance from a team of excellent faculty, graduate peers and friends. I hope to take the reader on a journey, but it is a twisting road with lots of offshoots, because that is ultimately the path I chose, and the road that led me to this culminating document and body of work had many detours."--From Introduction.


Author(s):  
Elizabeth Rottenberg

For the Love of Psychoanalysis: The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida is a book about what exceeds or resists calculation—in life and in death. It is a book about what emerges, and perhaps only emerges, from the difference between psychoanalysis and philosophy. Part I, “Freuderrida,” opens with a nontraditional Freud: a Freud associated not with sexuality, repression, unconsciousness, and symbolization, but with accidents and chance. It begins with the accidents both in and of Freud’s writing, the unexpected insights that simultaneously produce and disrupt our received ideas of psychoanalytic theory. Whether this disruption is figured as a “foreign body,” as “traumatic temporality,” as “spatial unlocatability,” or as the “death drive,” it points to something that is neither simply inside nor simply outside the psyche, neither psychically nor materially determined. Where Part I, “Freuderrida,” leaves us open to the accidents of psychoanalytic writing, Part II, “Freuderrida,” addresses itself to what transports us back and limits the openness of our horizon. And here the example par excellence is the death penalty and the cruelty of its calculating decision. If “Freuderrida” insists on the death penalty, if it returns to it compulsively, it is not only because its calculating drive is inseparable from the history of reason as philosophical reason; it is also because the death penalty provides us with one of the most spectacular and spectacularly obscene expressions of Freud’s death drive.


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