The Real
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Incontinental philosophy,the Realrefers to the demarcation ofrealitythat is correlated withsubjectivityandintentionality.[1][2]InLacanianism,it is an "impossible" category because of itsopposition to expressionand inconceivability.[3][4]The Real Order is atopological ring(lalangue) and ex-ists as an infinitehomonym.[5][6]
[T]he real in itself is meaningless: it has no truth for human existence. In Lacan's terms, it is speech that "introduces the dimension of truth into the real."[7]
— James DiCenso
In human geography and depth psychology
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The Real is theintelligible formof the horizon oftruthof thefield-of-objectsthat has beendisclosed.[8][9]As theReal Orderof theBorromean knotinLacanianism,[10]it is opposed in theunconsciousto theImaginary,which encompassesfantasy,dreamsandhallucinations.[11][12][13]Indepth psychologyandhuman geography,the Real can be described as a "negative space",analogous to a"black hole",aphilosophical voidofsocialityandsubjectivity,a traumatic consensus ofintersubjectivity,or as anabsolutenoumenalnessbetweensignifiers.[21]Lewis states that the Real can be apresenceor is asubstanceand cites Derrida's claim that the real isauthenticity.[22]
Complete understanding, as in [,on the one hand,] theresolutionafter the period ofmourning,represents [,on the other hand,] clear arrival at theSpinozan“impossible”.[23]
— Ian S. Miller
Even the word'trace'is an appropriation of the real. [...] 'Writing is one of the representatives of the trace in general,it is not the trace itself.The trace itself does not exist[Derrida’s italics]. [...] (OG: 167, my italics)'[.][24]
— Michael Lewis
Jacques Lacandefines theRealas aplenum,anaturebeyondculturethat iscontradistinctfromthe ontic.[25][26][27]The Lacanian real is a section of the triadic,Borromean knot:theImaginary,the Symbolic, and the Real; the center of the knot is thesinthome(monad-soul).[28]
Thing-ness
[edit]Felluga states thatBill Brown's Thing is conceptually close to the Real, as it is a type of unreliableness of the relation between subject and object that is neither subject nor object.[29]
The Real is reality in its unmediated form. It is what disrupts the subject’s received notions about himself and the world around him. [...] as a shattering Enigma, because in order to make sense of it he or she will have to [...] find signifiers that can ensure its control.[30]
— Judith Gurewich
Discourse of the subject
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The drive divides the subject, who uses masters signifiers to cover up this lack, which will produce narratives.[31]
— Dries G. M. Dulsster
A master signifier (S1) organizesnarrative(S2): adefensiveform ofdiscoursethat is anideologicalreaction to the Real: i.e.,mythicexplanation,hero's journey,storytelling,theme,pathos,ethos,plot,conflict,closure.[44]Therealsubject (asid) is repressed (viaaphanisis) by theimaginary-signified ego'sideologizingovertop of therealinstincts.[49]Narrative speech (parole) is an attempt to resolve the Real-Imaginaryaporia(langue) concerningevents.[50]
Psychotic discourse
[edit]Felluga states thatErnesto LaclauandChantal Mouffe's termantagonism,as a societal limit that sits outside of society'sarticulation,functions similarly to the Real.[51]
The therapist who feels threatened — threatened byexcessive certainty,byexcess beyond reason,by adiscourse they do not understand,byactivity that is not addressed to themor by a client who tries to take their place — might well be drivenmad.[52]
Hurst states that, in principle, self-analysis (analyst's discourse) might prevent an analyst from retrogressing to the ideological position of themaster's discourse(i.e., King inThe Purloined Letter).[53][54]
The crucial difficulty in self-analysis lies not in these fields but in the emotional factors that blind us to unconscious forces. That the main difficulty is emotional rather than intellectual is confirmed by the fact that when analysts analyze themselves they have not such a great advantage over the layman as we would be inclined to believe.[55][54]
The phallic signifier and castration
[edit]The ineffable, unary signifier of lack (phallus) stitches the unconsciousdrivesto jouissance, dialectically bridging language and desire (logosanderos,the Apollonian and the Dionysian).[64]
Drives
[edit]Barthesreflects that the inner voice of the subject is structured in a triad of "Presence" (frustration) created by the maternal Other, "Intermittence" (castration anxiety) over the loss of the phallus as an imaginary object taken by the real father, and "Absence" (privation) that occurs from losing the phallus from the imaginary father; (symbolicdesireseparates fromrealneedand becomesimaginarydemand) (q.v., Lacan'sgraph of desire).[65][66][67][68]
In neurosis
[edit]Hurst argues that the Lacanian Real parallels Derrida's concept ofdifférance.[69]Lewis states thatlalangueis thearche-writingrepetition that reveals the real subject throughdifférance.[70]Guattari states that temporaldifféranceis secreted from obsessional neurosis.[71]
Hysteric's discourse
[edit]Thehysteric's discourseis driven by the Real, where object (a) is at an impossible-to-find truth.[72][73]Neitherindividuationnordifferentiationcan happen in the stagnancy of the Real.[74][75]
The three categories of hysteria —conversion hysteria,anxiety hysteria,andtraumatic hysteria— have a basis inalienation,with anidentificationto those-without-the-phallus,and a self-sacrifice throughdisplacement.[76]Hurst states that masculine libidinal hysteria breaches theparanoid-schizoid positionof masculinefanaticismby attempting to make the Real appear, whereas feminine libidinal hysteria breaches theNietzschean radical nihilismof Hegel's "eternal irony" by resisting the Symbolic Order.[77]
Artistic discourse
[edit]Artistic discourse is apneumaof neurosis-psychosis hallucinatory hysteria, a poetic-real microcosm of the True-Real.[78][79][80][81]
[T]he fantasm of a devouring orality or of a return to the maternal breast refers to a mother who is neither real, imaginary, nor symbolic but who is cosmicbecoming;it is a Universe of processual emergence as much as of abolition. For all that, we are not in the reign of Jungian universal Imagos or mythological entities such asGaiaorChronos.The Universes of which the mouth and the breast are the refrain-operators are constellated in a composite and heterogenetic way: they constitute singularevents.[82]
The artist's sense of truth.[...] he does not want to give up the most effective presuppositions of his art: the fantastic, mythical, uncertain, extreme, the sense for the symbolic, the overestimation of the person, the faith in some miraculous element in thegenius.[83]
Signs of the real
[edit]The objetpetit ais whatfalls from the subject in anxiety.[84]
— Lacan
These objectsatake shape as the consequence ofrepressions,disguises,dissociations,fragmentations,deflections,intellectualizations,reductions,displacements,and discussions, which [...] cover over, and point to, the fact that the traumatic event cannot beassimilated[...] The Real [...] "appears" as failures, ruptures, and inconsistencies caused by thetuché.[85]
— Andrea Hurst
Tuchéis an Aristotelian-borrowed term to describe the traumatic encounter-kernel of the Real andautomatonto describe the repetitivetransferenceprocess of symbolizing the Real.[86][87]
Although the encircling of the Real (Lacan) or constellations (Adorno) tells us that we can never truly grasp the object, our approaching it from different angles of contextual perspectives takes place through a thinking subject who draws on concepts.[88]
— Claudia Leeb
The Symbolic introduces "a cut in the Real" in the process of signification: "it is the world of words that creates the world of things." Thus the Real emerges as that which is outside language, making it "that which resists symbolization absolutely".[89]Thelogosof the Symbolic creates the Order of the Real; the Real andkairosdivide thelogos,resist symbolization, and anticipate being symbolized.[94]
Signifiers of this experience are Lacan'sjouissance,Marx's theory of alienation,thenuminous,psychological trauma,transcendence,thesublimeor afracturedideology;particularly, it can be anarrativethat separatessignifiersfrom consciousdesire-quest(i.e.,narcissistic injury).[103]
[T]he real[...]is always in its place[...][the symbolic] carries it glued to its [metaphorical shoe] heel[.][104][...] The real is withoutfissure.[105][...] There is no absence [orpleasure principle] in the real [, concerning Freud'sreality principle].[106]
— Lacan
Jouissance
[edit]Julia Kristeva,particularly in her 1980 essayPowers of Horror,posits that thesuper-ego'sabjectionfacilitates a subjective traumatic limit between subject and objects, with the Real, throughego-object lossand castration ofsurplus jouissance.[114]Hurst references Žižek: for anyeventthat converges on a collapsed Symbolic Order, is a whereAntigonebecomes theThing.[115]LacanianBeing-for-deathis a death drive for itstelos(i.e.,sublimity).[116][117][118]
Suicideis really intended as egocide. [...] if one loses this sense of connectedness [to other egos] [...] the foundation of interconnectedness, is described as 'empty' or 'nothing,' and at the same time as an infinite, 'non-empty' world.[119]
Unreal vs real(2)
[edit]The unreal-unnameable organ called alamella(orlibidoas a symbiotic, pre-Oedipal, pre-symbolic Real(1) before-signified-who-ness) is distinct from the Real(2) after-signifier-what-ness, which a subject experiences at the limits of the Imaginary and Symbolic.[127]Real(1) is a continuous, "whole" reality that is undivided by language, while Real(2) is the space of the possibility of abjection being raised wherever there is interference in the path of the object of the ego, including the experience ofsurplus jouissancewhich threatens to surpass a subject's boundaries; Kristeva remarks that this experience "takes the ego back to its source", i.e., the id.[107][124][128]
[O]bject shadows or things of emergence—contents of the first Yonder from which a first Here conceives itself [...] Objects that, like those we have named, are not objects because they have no subject-like counterpart, are referred to by Macho as "nobjects": they are spherically surrounding mini-conditions envisaged by a non-facing self, namely the fetal pre-subject[.][129]
Somatization
[edit]The real is the difference between a right glove inside out and a left glove (cf. SXIV: 19/4/67).[130]
— Michael Lewis paraphrasing Lacan
Malcolm Bowieinterprets the Lacanian real asineffable(i.e.,uncanny).[135]
Historical materialism
[edit]Fredric Jamesoninterprets Lacan's real through aMarxist-Hegelianlens as meaning "History itself", a narrative symptom of the event.[136][137][138]
In afro-pessimism
[edit]Marriott examinesFanon:white people'sgazeanddehumanizationofblack peoplethroughobjectification,creating a desire for the absent object-of-identity inmarginalizedindividuals that is destroyed throughracistsignification.[139]George states thatraceis anobjet aconfrontation withjouissanceand lack.[140]George posits that the history ofslavery in the United Statesandracismare within the Real (e.g.,Beloved).[141]Crockett referencesW. E. B. Du Boisin relation to a Real critique of the Symbolic through apoint of viewfrom the angle ofdouble consciousness.[142]
Sinthome
[edit]In practice, Lacanian psychoanalysis derives theeventbygazingat theresistanceandtransferenceto identify theautomatonmechanisms of theThing(viz.,foreclosure,repression,anddisavowal) that are utilized toanamorphosicallyreadwhere the signifiers are hiding the symptomaticobjet petit (a),rendering therealsubject.[150]
Lacan finds in this sublimated image [of the object-as-Thing] the function of anAté,the 'divinization' of a 'limit' that simultaneously draws us toward and keeps us a safe distance from that which 'represents the disqualification of all concepts,' that which represents the void of the 'empty' Real (262).[151]
— Sheldon George
Subject-as-metaphor
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The subject is always themissingsignifier, thelackof a signifier, 'the subject is literally at his beginning theelisionof a signifier as such, the missing signifier in the chain' (SVII:224). The barred subject, the essence of the human being of desire, can then only exist in the bar [of Signifier/signified].[152]
— Michael Lewis citing Lacan
In the ordinary way, the study of "real" (i.e. social) space is referred to specialists and their respective specialties — to geographers, town-planners, sociologists,et alii.As for knowledge of "true" (i.e. mental) space, it is supposed to fall within the province of the mathematicians and philosophers. Here we have a double or even multiple error. To begin with, the split between "real" and "true" serves only to avoid any confrontation between practice and theory, between lived experience and concepts, so that both sides of these dualities are distorted from the outset.[153]
Lacan links the processes of displacement with metonymy and those of condensation with metaphor. [...] the process of realization of the subject parallels the action of metaphor that displaces literal levels of meaning in its production of new meaning.[7]
— James DiCenso
WhenPascalwrites: the eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me, he speaks as an unbeliever, not as a believer.[154]
The voidis what the subject finds through interrogation of oneself. The subjectexistentiallynavigates an inward, metaphorical and vacuous desert or ocean, unguided by the psychoanalytic metaphor ofGod's "Original Presence".[160]Premodern philosophers also thought up aformlesschora,a pre-universal "chaos",and the experience ofhorror vacui;[161]these conceptions of an unguided ego confronting the void informed psychoanalysis.[162]It prefigured Lacan's outline of how the subject-as-metaphor, later the analysand, encounters the Real and how this experience is slated in analysis to give rise topathologies,particularly anxieties and traumas. In psychoanalysis, the subject appears either astransference,repressionor as the barrier separatingthe signifier over the signified.Subjective experience is aparadoxicalextensioninseparable from the experience ofplace, landscape, and body,which can be conveyed asutopia,dystopia,orpantheon.[171]
Philosophers reveal the Real engulfing the ego in a comparatively unfamiliar and defamiliarizing space, and the subject'sdystonicfeelings of confrontation. Thegeographical selfas described inhuman geography,or alternatively the "makanthropos" as described bySchopenhauer,feelsCartesian anxiety,a confusion of certainty in reason, from the experience of this formless void.[176]
Consider Heidegger's example of the shoemaker's workshop as a totality ofequipment—hammers, needles, and the like. Thein-order-to"is constitutive for the equipment" [...] Thetoward-whichof the equipment is the "work to be produced", (p. 99), in this case, shoes [and,ipso facto,shoe heels].[177]
Resistance
[edit]Animpasseis the resistance between the real and the imaginary that affects thetherapeutic alliance,wherein the client is at odds with the Transcendent Function of the therapist's mind as mediation to the Symbolic Order by way of the Signifier-as-God (i.e.,discrepancy).[182]Analysis reveals the kernel at the core of the Real through resistance.[183]The finiteegoresists the unconscious's infinitelatticeofsignifiers.[184]
Passe
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[A] God is something one encounters in the real, inaccessible. It is indicated by what doesn’t deceive—anxiety. [...] God is the supreme Being.IequalsBeing.[185]
— Lacan
Lacan gave the namepasseto the analysand's dualistic experience ofuncertainty,becoming eclipsed and challenged by a subjective confrontation, that gives way to a feeling of certainty with the Real, e.g. in thetemptation of Christor thedesolation of saints;it is "the moment of crisis in aspeaking curein which all subjectivity, the last imaginary residue [of the ego], allself-lovefalls away "and is replaced byacceptancefrom the analyst.[186][187][54][188]
There is a 'barrier' ofrepressionbetween Signifiers (theunconscious mind:'discourse of theOther') and the signified […] a 'chain' of signifiers is analogous to the 'rings of a necklace that is a ring in another necklace made of rings' […] 'The signifier is that which [paternal metaphor] represents asubjectfor another signifier'.[189][190][191][192]
— Lacan, paraphrased
Michael Eigenstates that a paradox of faith comes from subject-attacking-object (such as in Jung'sAnswer to Job).[193]The Real, as analogized as anaporiain experience or an encompassing black hole of reality, relates to theJungian archetypeof theDeath Mother,theshadowof the Mother archetype, articulated inNeumann'sThe Great Mother.[194][14][15]
The agony of breaking through personal limitations is the agony of spiritual growth. Art, literature, myth and cult, philosophy, and ascetic disciplines are instruments to help the individual past his limiting horizons into spheres of ever-expanding realization. [...] Finally, the mind breaks the bounding sphere of the cosmos to a realization of transcending all experience of form—all symbolizations, all divinities: a realization of the ineluctable void.[195]
Thebecomingproduced under therapy sessions can lead to anineffableandoceanicexperience of theThing(White interpreting Bion, Eigen, Ogden);[196]the analyst in the Bion school seeks to be an empty container, or empty subject of the void, of the client's projections.[197]
The real as one-ness
[edit]Lerner states that Spinoza's God may be interpreted as the real, with theattribute of Thoughtas the symbolic.[198]François Laruelleposits the Real as an immanent One.[199]
The experience ofthe Voidis the unbeliever's mystic temptation, his possibility for prayer, his moment of plenitude. At ourlimits,a God appears, or something that serves his turn.[200][15]
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What has been [, under primary repression,] foreclosed [via the un-barred subject's repudiation of the Name-of-the-Father and phallus] from the Symbolic[,] reappears in the Real.[207]
— Jacques Lacan
In my reading, a convergence occurs between Heidegger's term'refusal' (Verweigerung)and the Freudian 'foreclosure' (Verwerfung).[208]
— Clayton Crockett
With Muller,psychosishas noword-thingsymbolic mediation: figurative communications function as reifiedRealobjects (e.g.,projective identificationandbizarre objects).[212]Marriott states that foreclosure is directly connected toressentiment.[213]Brenner cites Laurent, claimingautistic foreclosureleads toRealcastrationthrough manifesting asynthetic mOther(The Death of the Authoror barring the subject), as opposed toSymboliccastration within an organicnomos;[218]thisexistential crisiscould theoretically lead to theemergenceof aschizoid personality style(dissociation,isolation,andintellectualization); q.v.,enantiodromia.[219][220][221]Underautistic foreclosure,the autistic subject is un-barred, wherein the signifier feels Real (q.v.,synesthesia).[222]
In thisjoiner,Lacan tells us, "the subject can achieve nothing but some form of psychosis or perversion," where this psychosis is marked precisely by a fullness, in the presences of the Real, that eliminates the dimension of desire and all subjective aspirations (301).[151]
— Sheldon George
One crucial way in which Derrida describes the real is as an 'event' (évenément,an eventuatingor occurrence). The absolute outside of the text [or, the real other] was named by Derrida from the very start as 'the unnameable' (OG: 14). [...] [O]ne can see that any understanding of the real as presence and as a transcendental signified willimporta determinationfromsomething that has resulted from the realintothe real itself.[24]
— Michael Lewis
Leeb conjectures thatTheodor W. Adorno's concept of thenon-identicaland Lacan's Real fall underimmanent critique.[223]
In schizoanalysis
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[Baruch Spinoza] recognize[s] only three,orprimary,affects:joy, sadness, anddesire[and Deleuze interprets desire as the "reflection, derivation, and correlation" of the set of ideas that represent "all power" that "is inseparable from acapacity for being affected"].[224][225]
In critical overviews of the work ofGilles DeleuzeandFélix Guattari,the Real has been identified, particularly in readings ofA Thousand Plateaus,as the plane ofdefamiliarizedanddeterritorializedempty signifiers that approach theuncanny valley,destroyedsignsof an implodinggaze,anda-temporalsemiotic black holes offaciality.[230]In both the construction and destruction of the "face", a system that "brings together a despotic wall of interconnected signifiers and passional black holes of subjective absorption", there is a split in subjectivity and a confrontation with the Real.[231]The uncanny, the plane of empty signifiers, is found in relations between intersections of the interior-selfand exterior-Other,a "return of therepressed"as aneternal returnof the path of theobjet petit athat disturbs familiarity and further deterritorializes the subject.[232][233][234]
Guattari, who throughout the development of his philosophy was critical of Lacan, wrote in the 1979 essay "Logos or Abstract Machines?" that:
[T]here is nometa-languagehere.Thecollectiveassemblageof enunciation speaks "on the same level" asstates of affairs,states of facts, and subjective states.There is not, on the one hand, a subject that speaks in the "void"and, on the other hand, an object that would be spoken in the"plenum."The void and the plenum are"engineered"by the samedeterritorializationeffect.[235][236][237]
When the monad-soul finds inner stability, theautopoieticobjet petit adoes not lead tointrojection(oral stage) norprojection(anal stage): this state is thebody without organs,avirtualityofbecomingwithin theplane of immanence.[242]The realis a diagrammatic virtuality ofreality(orNature),onticlysurpassing all regimes of signs by the merging of content and expression in thebody without organs.[243]
Modalities of the real in Žižek
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As I see it, Derrida’s recourse to 'incoherence' is analogous to what Žižek understands by the Lacanian Real.[244]
— Andrea Hurst
Slavoj Žižekdivides thegistof the Lacanian Real into "threemodalities":[245][246][247]
- The "symbolic Real"(Phallus): signifier of signification, Lacan's impossible "Other of the Other"[248]
- symbolichistoricity(Clotho) perpetuallyquilting the chainof signifiers (Lachesis) with a newmaster signifier(Atropos); i.e.,dialecticallyideological narrative-punctuation (hermeneutic circle/monad): whenkairoscastratesthelogoswith theReal.[259]
- The "imaginary Real"(Objet petit a): Lewis states that real-tracesof each signifier are rendered intelligible through the no-image signified[260]
- aparallax-icego-split,deriving anego-idealobject(a'), creating a poetic-realmental imageofhorror and terror,deriving theuncanny:méconnaissance.[266]
- The "real Real"(Event): a semiotic negative-image object (e.g.,woodblock printing), neither symbolic signifier nor imaginary signified[267]
- afissureofthe Symbolic;an absence-of-absence(~~p);[268][269]areifiedpsychological projection,sublimatedas aThing(viz.,transference-object,analysand,identification,andnondualism).[280]
Lewis states that the real-of-the-symbolic is theletter(referenced in Lacan's schemas), and the real-of-the-imaginary isobjet petit a.[281]
Žižek cites, as literary examples of the Real which he identifies as "the primordial abyss which swallows everything, dissolving all identities", theeldritchexperience ofPipin the ocean inHerman Melville'sMoby-Dick,regressionand therepetition compulsionofcharacterologicaldesire indeath drivewithinPoe'sMaelström,[282][250][283]and the climax ofJoseph Conrad'sHeart of DarknesswhereKurtzis in the throes of death.[284]Meanwhile, in his use of film analysis, Žižek states that thereal Realcan be found inThe Full Montyand surreptitiously inThe Sound of Music.
Glyn Daly also provided a further elaboration of Žižek's three modalities through his pre-established examples from pop culture:
The real Real is the hard limit that functions as the horrifying Thing (the Alien,Medusa's head, maelstrom and so on) - a shattering force ofnegation.The symbolic Real refers to the anonymous symbols and codes (scientific formulae, digitalisation, empty signifiers...) that function in an indifferent manner as the abstract "texture" onto which, or out of which, reality is constituted. InThe Matrix,for example, the symbolic Real is given expression at the point whereNeoperceives "reality" in terms of the abstract streams of digital output. In the contemporary world, Žižek argues that it is capital itself that provides this essential backdrop to our reality and as such represents the symbolic Real of our age. With the "imaginary real" we have precisely the (unsustainable) dimension of fantasmatic excess-negation that is explored inFlatliners.This is why cyberspace is such an ambiguous imaginary realm.[285]
Notable figures
[edit]- Louis Althusser
- Alain Badiou
- Georges Bataille
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Maurice Blanchot
- Ray Brassier
- Lorenzo Chiesa
- Sigmund Freud
- Bruce Fink (psychoanalyst)
- Heraclitus
- Julia Kristeva
- Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
- Jean Laplanche
- François Laruelle
- Serge Leclaire
- Jean-Luc Nancy
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Parmenides
- Jean-Bertrand Pontalis
- Otto Rank
- Naomi Schor
- Evelyn Underhill
See also
[edit]- Anomie
- Capacity to be alone
- Characterology
- Chronotope
- Complex post-traumatic stress disorder
- Condensation (psychology)
- Écriture féminine
- Ergo Proxy
- Installation art
- Intellectualization
- Kyoto School
- Logocentrism
- Materiality (social sciences and humanities)
- Mentalization
- Metaphysics of presence
- Nothing
- Object relations theory
- 'Pataphysics
- Perennial philosophy
- Phallocentrism
- Philosophical zombie
- Physis
- Pragmatism
- Process philosophy
- Psychodynamics
- Psychogeography
- Psychonautics
- Quietism (philosophy)
- Reification (fallacy)
- Repetition (Kierkegaard book)
- Shadow (psychology)
- Social organism
- Sociology of space
- Socratic method
- Triadic signs
- Textuality
- Trichotomy (philosophy)
- What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
Notes
[edit]- ^Shaviro, Steven (2014). "Noncorrelational Thought".The Universe of Things: on Speculative Realism.University of Minnesota Press. p. 109.ISBN978-0-8166-8926-2.
[E]ven when correlationismdoesposit some sort of 'exteriority' to thought—the Kantian thing in itself, the phenomenological intentional object, or the Lacanian Real—this exteriority still remains 'relative to us...this space of exteriority is merely the space of what faces us, of what exists only as a correlate of our own existence'
- ^Dor, Joël (1999). Gurewich, Judith (ed.).The Clinical Lacan.Other Press. p. 23.ISBN978-1-892746-05-4.
Editor's note: [...] The Real is reality in its unmediated form. It is what disrupts the subject's received notions about himself and the world around him [...] as a shattering Enigma, because in order to make sense of it he or she will have to [...] find signifiers that can ensure its control.
- ^Zupančič, Alenka (2000).Ethics of the Real: Kant, Lacan.Verso. pp. 235–237.ISBN1-85984-218-6.
- ^Hurst, Andrea (2008). "7 The Lacanian Real".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 213–236.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.14.
The desire for an 'impossible' immortality ('impossible,' in the sense of ineradicably aporetic), he claims, 'is the real that governs our activities more than any other and it is psychoanalysis that designates it for us.'
- ^Bristow, Daniel (2022).Schizostructuralism: Divisions in Structure, Surface, Temporality, Class.Routledge. p. 37.ISBN978-1-03-205872-6.
On the infinity of the rings, it becomes clear here that it is only the Real that is truly infinite, in its homonomy.
- ^Kristeva, Julia (1983). "Within the Microcosm of 'The Talking Cure'".In Smith, Joseph H.; Kerrigan, William (eds.).Interpreting Lacan.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 6. Yale University Press. p. 35.ISBN978-0-300-13581-7.
No matter how impossible therealmight be, once it is made homogenous withlalangue,it finally becomes part of a topology with theimaginaryand thesymbolic,a part of that trinary hold from which nothing escapes, not even the 'hole,' since it too is part of the structure.
- ^abDiCenso, James (1994)."Symbolism and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Approach to Religion".The Journal of Religion.74(1): 45–64.doi:10.1086/489286.JSTOR1203614.S2CID144297576.Retrieved2022-12-11.
- ^Merleau-Ponty, Maurice(2002) [1945].Phenomenology of Perception.Routledge Classcs. p. 35.ISBN0-415-27841-4.
The miracle of consciousness consists in its bringing to light, through attention, phenomena which re-establish the unity of the object in a new dimension at the very moment when they destroy it. [...] [attention is] the active constitution of a new object which makes explicit and articulate what was until then presented as no more than an indeterminate horizon.
- ^Lacan, Jacques(2006) [1966]. "Presentation on Psychical Causality".Écrits.Translated byFink, Bruce.W. W. Norton & Company. p. 130.ISBN978-0-393-32925-4.
[T]here is no antimony whatsoever between the objects I perceive and my body, whose perception is constituted by a quite natural harmony with those objects.
- ^Botting, Fred (1994)."Relations of the Real in Lacan, Bataille and Blanchot".SubStance.23(73): 24–40.doi:10.2307/3684791.JSTOR3684791.Retrieved2022-01-16.
theReal [...] 'the Real Order'
- ^abRicoeur, Paul(1970). "Book II: Analytic: Reading of Freud: Part III: EROS, THANTOS, ANANKE: 3. Interrogations:What is Reality?".Terry Lectures: Freud & Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation.Translated by Savage, Denis. Yale University Press. pp. 324, 327.ISBN978-0-300-02189-9.
[R]eality is first of all the opposite of fantasy—it is facts[...]it is the opposite of dreams, of hallucination[...]thus reality becomes the correlate of the consciousness, and then of the ego. [...] [R]eality has the same meaning at the end of Freud's life as it had at the beginning: reality is the worldshornof God.
- ^Thacker, Eugene(2010).In the Dust of this Planet.Vol. [Horror of Philosophy Vol. 1]. Zero Books. p. 30.ISBN978-1-84694-676-9.
[T]he human can only understand the human by transforming it into an object to relate to (psychology, sociology), while the human can only relate to the objective world itself by transforming the world into something familiar, accessible, or intuited in human terms (biology, geology, cosmology).
- ^Boothby, Richard (2001).Freud as Philosopher: metapsychology after Lacan.Routledge. p. 60.ISBN0-415-92590-8.
He [Merleau-Ponty] thus asserts that 'the philosophy of Freud is not a philosophy of the body but of the flesh—The Id, the unconscious—and the Ego (correlative) to be understood on the basis of the flesh' (The Visible and the Invisible,270).
- ^abFoster, Hal (2003)."Medusa and the Real".RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics.44(44): 181–190.doi:10.1086/RESv44n1ms20167613.JSTOR20167613.S2CID186018604.Retrieved2022-01-16.
[T]he Lacanian real is a black hole, a negative space of non-sociality, indeed of non-subjectivity.
- ^abcMuller, John P. (1983). "Language, Psychosis, and the Subject in Lacan". In Smith, Joseph H.; Kerrigan, William (eds.).Interpreting Lacan.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 6. Yale University Press. p. 28.ISBN978-0-300-13581-7.
The real[...]is a kind of static whole as well as a kind of black hole void of internal relations. To 'live in the real' means then to experience not just 'loss of self' but an unbearable plenitude; the term 'jouissance' catches the ecstatic of it but not the horror.
- ^Johnson, Kevin A.; Asenas, Jennifer J. (2013)."The Lacanian Real as a Productive Supplement to Rhetorical Critique".Rhetoric Society Quarterly.43(2): 155–176.doi:10.1080/02773945.2013.768349.JSTOR24753546.S2CID144028476.Retrieved2022-01-17.
Kevin A. Johnson wrote that the Real as Void is a 'radical nothingness' at the core ofBurke'stheory of subjectivity.
- ^Walsh, Michael (1995)."Reality, the Real, and the Margaret-Thatcher-Signifier in Two British Films of the 1980s".American Imago.52(2): 169–189.doi:10.1353/aim.1995.0006.JSTOR26304235.S2CID143767269.Retrieved2022-01-22.
Reality remains predicated on the signifier, and the subject still inhabits an infinitely signifying universe; however, reality and subjectivity are both organized around a traumatic 'kernal of the Real.' [...] 'the real is[...]the product of a social consensus about the nature of reality' (Landy 1991, 4).
- ^abcBoothby, Richard (2001).Freud as Philosopher: metapsychology after Lacan.Routledge. p. 12.ISBN0-415-92590-8.
As much an expression of the ineffable ground of the subject's own being as that of the world beyond it, the real escapes all representation, even as its indeterminate force may be encountered in the experience of the uncanny or evidenced in the effects of the trauma.
- ^Bakker, J. I. (Hans) (2011)."The 'Semiotic Self': From Peirce and Mead to Wiley and Singer".The American Sociologist.42(2/3): 187–206.doi:10.1007/s12108-011-9140-3.JSTOR41485707.S2CID143416139.Retrieved2022-03-18.
The ontic Reality (which does exist, but is forever unknowable) [...] [t]here is aKantianepistemological gap between the ontic Reality and the semiotic sign system that attempts to grasp that elusive Reality
- ^DiCenso, James (1994)."Symbolism and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Approach to Religion".The Journal of Religion.74(1): 45–64.doi:10.1086/489286.JSTOR1203614.S2CID144297576.Retrieved2022-12-11.
The real parallelsKant's noumenalorDing an sichas having both an internal and external status and in being only indirectly known.
- ^[14][15][16][17][18][19][20]
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "3 The real and the development of the imaginary".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 148–201.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.9.
This real is what Derrida refers to as 'authenticity' or 'propriety'[.] [...] The real ispresenceor substance.
- ^Miller, Ian S. (2022).Clinical Spinoza: Integrating His Philosophy with Contemporary Therapeutic Practice.Psychoanalysis in a New Key Book Series. Routledge. p. 160.doi:10.4324/9781003246404-10.ISBN978-1-032-15934-8.
- ^abLewis, Michael (2008). "2 Deconstructing Lacan".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 80–147.ISBN9780748636037.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.8.
- ^Brisman, Susan Hawk; Brisman, Leslie (1980). "Lies against Solitude: Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real". In Smith, Joseph H. (ed.).The Literary Freud: Mechanisms of Defense and the Poetic Will.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 4. Yale University Press. p. 43.ISBN0-300-02405-3.
Defining the real as a 'plenum', Lacan warns against fusing it withrealin the ordinary sense of 'actual'[.]
- ^Johnson, Kevin A.; Asenas, Jennifer J. (2013)."The Lacanian Real as a Productive Supplement to Rhetorical Critique".Rhetoric Society Quarterly.43(2): 155–176.doi:10.1080/02773945.2013.768349.JSTOR24753546.S2CID144028476.Retrieved2022-01-17.
Lundberg's skepticism is rooted in an interpretation of the Real that is carefully located in contradistinction with 'reality.'
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "1 Lacan: The name-of-the-father and the phallus".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 16–79.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.10.
Culture may be identified with 'the symbolic' and nature with 'the real'.
- ^abcLacan, Jacques(2006) [1966]. "Presentation on Psychical Causality".Écrits.Translated byFink, Bruce.W. W. Norton & Company. p. 153.ISBN978-0-393-32925-4.
It is...the passion of the soulpar excellence,narcissism,that imposes its structure on all his desires[.] [...] In the encounter between body and mind, the soul appears as[...]the limit of the monad. [...] seeking to empty himself of all thoughts, advances in the shadowless gleam of imaginary space, abstaining from what will emerge from it, a dull mirror shows him a surface in which nothing is reflected. I think, therefore, that I can designate the imago as the true object of psychology[.]
- ^Felluga, Dino Franco (2015).Critical Theory: Key Concepts.Routledge. pp. 313–314.ISBN978-0-415-69565-7.
['T]he thing really names less an object than a particularsubject-objectrelation.['] [...] 'an amorphous characteristic or a frankly irresolvable Enigma ['] [...] [']a certain limit or liminality, to hover over the threshold between nameable and unnameable, the figurable and unfigurable, the identifiable and unidentifiable' (4-5). Thing is thus at once that which is 'badly encountered' but also 'some thing not quite apprehended' (5), somehow outside of the relation ofsubjectandobject.[...] The Thing in this sense is close to Jacques Lacan's understanding of theReal,as Brown himself suggests (5).
- ^Dor, Joël (1999). Gurewich, Judith (ed.).The Clinical Lacan.Other Press. p. 23.ISBN978-1-892746-05-4.
Editor's note
- ^Dulsster, Dries G. M. (2022).The Reign of Speech: On Applied Lacanian Psychoanalysis.Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 73.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-85596-3.ISBN978-3-030-85595-6.
- ^Parker, Ian(2011).Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity.Advancing Theory in Therapy. NY: Routledge. p. 115.ISBN978-0-415-45543-5.
[N]arrative itself is a form of defense against this real (Laplanche 2003; Frosh 2007).
- ^Dulsster, Dries G. M. (2022).The Reign of Speech: On Applied Lacanian Psychoanalysis.Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 73.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-85596-3.ISBN978-3-030-85595-6.
S1 [...] These master signifiers are understood to structure and organize the narratives, and indeed the lives, of a subject. [...] S2 refers to the whole body of signifiers by means of which knowledge or messages are communicated.
- ^Frye, Northrop(1973) [1957]. "Third Essay: Archetypal Criticism: Theory of Myths".Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays.Princeton University Press. p. 136.ISBN0-691-01298-9.
In terms of narrative, myth is the imitation of actions near or at the conceivable limits of desire.
- ^Debord, Guy(1992) [1967].The Society of the Spectacle.Translated by Knabb, Ken. Bureau of Public Secrets. p. 69.ISBN978-0-939682-06-5.
Myth is the unitary mental construct which guarantees that the cosmic order conforms with the order that this society has in fact already established within its frontiers.
- ^Alexander, Lily (2007)."Storytelling in Time and Space: Studies in the Chronotope and Narrative Logic on Screen".Journal of Narrative Theory.37(1): 27–64.doi:10.1353/jnt.2007.0014.JSTOR41304849.S2CID162336034.Retrieved17 May2021.
chronotope(literally 'time-space'—representation and conceptualization of the artistic time and space, derived by Bakhtin from Einstein's theory of relativity) [...] This type of narrative time-space [...] are associated with the trials, sufferings and tests one cannot avoid on a difficult journey.
- ^Morson, Gary Saul (1993)."Strange Synchronies and Surplus Possibilities: Bakhtin on Time".Slavic Review.52(3). Cambridge University Press: 477–493.doi:10.2307/2499720.JSTOR2499720.S2CID147078360.Retrieved2022-02-13.
Generally speaking, literary structure is not neutral with respect to philosophies of time.It strongly favorsclosedtemporalities. It is therefore comparatively easy and common to make the shape of a work reinforce a fatalistic or deterministic view of time [...] Such repetitions happen forward, not backward, and they require no underlying structure; but once they happen, they can always be narratedas ifa plan were simply revealed over time. In fact, the conventions of narrative favor such a presentation, because narratives are told after the fact. To repeat: narratives are predisposed to understanding in terms of structure.
- ^Merrifield, Andrew (26 June 1993)."Place and Space: A Lefebvrian Reconciliation".Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.18(4). The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers): 516–531.doi:10.2307/622564.ISSN0020-2754.JSTOR622564.Retrieved2022-02-13.
Drawing upon French philosopher and literary critic, Paul Ricoeur, [J. Nicholas] Entrikin argues that the key element straddling this relationship — or 'getting between' place — is the process ofemplotment(25). This is a form of narrative which gives structure to the particular connections people have with places [...] But all of this begins with a tacit assumption that place is dualistic to begin with
- ^Mutnick, Deborah (2006)."Time and Space in Composition Studies: 'Through the Gates of the Chronotope'".Rhetoric Review.25(1): 41–57.doi:10.1207/s15327981rr2501_3.JSTOR20176698.S2CID145482670.Retrieved2022-02-13.
A text, writes Bakhtin, occupies 'a certain specific place in space [...and] our acquaintance with it occurs through time' (252). [...] In Bakhtin's words: 'Time, as it were, thickens, takes on flesh, becomes artistically visible; likewise, space becomes charged and responsive to the movements of time, plot and history' (84).
- ^Deleuze, Gilles; Guattari, Félix (2009) [1965].Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia.Translated by Hurley, Robert; Seem, Mark; Lane R., Helen. Penguin Books. p. 128.ISBN978-0-14-310582-4.
[W]hat remains common to Freud and Jung: the unconscious [is] always measured against myths[.]
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "1 Lacan: The name-of-the-father and the phallus".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 16–79.ISBN9780748636037.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.7.
A myth is a symbolic or imaginary retelling of a beginning. A myth is something that the symbolic order finds it necessary to invoke in order to explain itself. [...] 'All myth is related to that which isinexplicablein the real' (SVIII: 67-8; cf. SVII: 143).
- ^Guattari, Félix (2006) [1992].Chaosmosis: an ethico-aesthetic paradigm.Translated by Bains, Paul; Pefanis, Julian. Power Publications. p. 61.ISBN978-0-909952-25-9.
It is only through mythical narratives (religious, fantasmatic, etc.) that the existential function accedes to discourse.
- ^Guilfoyle, Michael (2014).The Person in Narrative Therapy: A Post-Structural, Foucauldian Account.Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 58.ISBN978-1-349-47928-3.
Discourses align our social activities by shaping us into all manner of historically specific, socially recognizable, and culturally relevant forms: [list of roles]. [...] stories 'are directly constitutive of life' [...] and of identity.
- ^[32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "1 Lacan: The name-of-the-father and the phallus".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 16–79.ISBN9780748636037.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.7.
The subject issingularity,the ego isindividuality;the subject is real, the ego imaginary. [...] Singularity must leave itself, become alienated, in order to form our individuality. The ego represses the subject. [...] [A]dapting a term of Ernest Jones', 'aphanisis' (cf. SIX: 4/4/62). This is used to describe the subject's characteristic of vanishing the moment it expresses itself [...] in which the real is 'present' within the symbolic order[.]
- ^Hurst, Andrea (2008). "11 The Death Drive and Ethical Action".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 318–347.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.19.
On the one hand, in the register of the Imaginary, what is called the subject's 'identity' consists in the narrative fiction built up for the ego ormoi.[...] On the other hand, in the register of the Real, that which I 'am' consists of an unconscious, traumatic, singularizing desire.
- ^McWilliams, Nancy (2020) [2011].Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Process(2 ed.). New York, NY: The Guilford Press. pp. 27–28.ISBN978-1462543694.
The 'id' [...] [c]ognitively, it is preverbal, expressing itself in images and symbols. It is also prelogical, having no concept of time, mortality, limitation, or the impossibility that opposites can coexist. [...] 'primary process' thought. [...] The id is entirely unconscious.
- ^Karen, Horney(1939).New Ways in Psychoanalysis.W. W. Norton & Company. p. 184.ISBN978-0-393-31230-0.
Freud's 'ego' [...] declared in some writings, the organized part of the 'id,' the latter being the sum total of crude, unmodified instinctual needs.
- ^[45][46][47][48]
- ^Hurst, Andrea (2008). "12 The" Talking Cure ": Language and Psychoanalysis".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 348–372.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.20.
[T]he Real and the Imaginary may be understood in terms of the relation between the so-called pure signifier (event) and the aporetic dis/order imposed upon it by the necessity of its narration from a particular point of view. [...] [I]n accordance with the structuralist division betweenparole(individual speech or narration) andlangue(the conditions of the narration)[.]
- ^Felluga, Dino Franco (2015).Critical Theory: Key Concepts.Routledge. p. 16.ISBN978-0-415-69565-7.
The social, for Laclau and Mouffe, is nothing but a set of provisional 'nodal points which partially fix meaning' (113), a process they termarticulation[...] 'Antagonisms,' by this thinking, 'are notinternalbutexternalto society; or rather, they constitute the limits of society['] [...] In this way, 'antagonism' functions in a way similar to Jacques Lacan's notion of theReal.
- ^Parker, Ian(2011).Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity.Advancing Theory in Therapy. NY: Routledge. p. 145.ISBN978-0-415-45543-5.
- ^Hurst, Andrea (2008). "12 The 'Talking Cure': Language and Psychoanalysis".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 348–372.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.20.
[T]o the extent that one misrecognizes analytical mastery as being a matter of power over others, rather than the self-mastery that is the precondition for ethical action, one retrogresses to the subject position of blindness represented by the King [in The Purloined Letter]. This is the form of Lacan's warning to all analysts (institutional or otherwise). [...] Can one ever be vigilant enough as an analyst to prevent analytical mastery from devolving into ideological mastery? Perhaps one can, in principle, with a ruthless and interminable self-analysis. [...] What psychoanalysis in principle requires of an analyst, or aims at in any psychoanalytically realized subject, is a form of self-mastery, which is defined as the power of inventive self-renewal through the interminable labor of self-analysis.
- ^abcTillet, Susana (2001). "Pass (Passe) ". In Glowinski, Huguette; Marks, Zita M.; Murphy, Sara (eds.).A Compendium of Lacanian Terms.Free Association Books. p. 132.ISBN1-85343-538-4.
In the passage from analysand to psychoanalyst, the analyst consents to becomesemblantof object a, cause of desire. [...] 'there might have been an analysis but there is no analyst.'
- ^Horney, Karen(1994) [1968].Self-Analysis.W. W. Norton. p. 25.ISBN0-393-31165-1.
- ^Dor, Joël (1999). Gurewich, Judith (ed.).The Clinical Lacan.Other Press. p. 17.ISBN978-1-892746-05-4.
Editor's Note [...] In Lacanian theory, the phallic function is the organizing principle of the dynamic of the subject's desire. [...] the phallus operates as the signifier of a loss[.]
- ^Wiley, Norbert (1994).The Semiotic Self.Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. p. 117.ISBN0-226-89816-4.
Lacan was careless about this word ['father'], as he was about the word 'phallus,' sometimes using them physiologically and sometimes psychologically or functionally (Macey, 1988, pp. 177-209; Sprengnether, 1990, pp. 181-223).
- ^Casey, Edward S.; Woody, J. Melvin (1983). "Hegel, Heidegger, Lacan: The Dialectic of Desire". In Smith, Joseph H.; Kerrigan, William (eds.).Interpreting Lacan.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 6. Yale University Press. p. 83.ISBN978-0-300-13581-7.
Lacan[...:] 'The phallus is the privileged signifier of that mark in which the role of the logos is joined with the advent of desire (1977, p. 287). The phallus thus stands at that 'intersection of desire and language' which Ricoeur describes as the philosophically critical crossroads of psychoanalytic theory. [...] It also stands forjouissance[...which] cannot be satisfied by any object because 'the being of language is the non-being of objects' (p. 263).
- ^Fink, Bruce(1997).A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique.Harvard University Press. p. 178.ISBN0-674-13536-9.
Something ineffable[...]in Western society is known as the phallus.
- ^Kirsch, Jean (2007)."Review: Reading Jung with Susan Rowland".Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche.1(1): 13–47.doi:10.1525/jung.2007.1.1.13.JSTOR10.1525/jung.2007.1.1.13.S2CID170894409.Retrieved2022-06-25.
In Lacan's imagery the phallus is a neutral signifier[.]
- ^Levy-Stokes, Carmella (2001). "Phallus". In Glowinski, Huguette; Marks, Zita M.; Murphy, Sara (eds.).A Compendium of Lacanian Terms.Free Association Books. pp. 136–143.ISBN1-85343-538-4.
[T]he phallus is the signifier of lack [...] [that] constitutes the unconscious as language [...] [and represents] what the mother lacks. [...] the phallus—the signifier of the desire of the Other [...] [mediates] the dialectic of desire.
- ^Libbrecht, Katrien (2001). "The Real". In Glowinski, Huguette; Marks, Zita M.; Murphy, Sara (eds.).A Compendium of Lacanian Terms.Free Association Books. p. 156.ISBN1-85343-538-4.
The real Thing of the drive isjouissance.
- ^Fink, Bruce(1995). "There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship".The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance.Princeton University Press. p. 102.ISBN978-0-691-01589-7.
Object (a) is thus the real, unspeakable cause of desire, while the phallus is 'the name of desire' and thus pronouncable.
- ^[56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]
- ^Barthes, Roland(2010) [1977].A Lover's Discourse: Fragments.Translated by Howard, Richard. Hill and Wang. pp. 6, 16.ISBN978-0-374-53231-4.
Underneath the figure, there is something of the 'verbal hallucination' (Freud, Lacan) [...] Frustration would have Presence as its figure[...]castration has Intermittence as its figure[...]Absence is the figure of privation[...]The discourse of Absence is atext[...][Ruysbroeck's]the raised arms of Desire[...]the wide-open arms of Need.
- ^Levy-Stokes, Carmela (2001). "Castration". In Glowinski, Huguette; Marks, Zita M.; Murphy, Sara (eds.).A Compendium of Lacanian Terms.Free Association Books. p. 46.ISBN1-85343-538-4.
Infrustrationthe lack is imaginary[, and...] [t]he agent of frustration is the mother, at the level of the symbolic. [...]Privationrefers to a real lack due to the loss of a symbolic object, the phallus as signifier. [...] The notion of privation implies the symbolization of the object in the Real[.] [...] The agent of privation is the imaginary father. [...]Castrationis the symbolic lack of an imaginary object [...] the symbolic debt in the register of the law. [...] castration refers to the loss of the phallus as imaginary object. The agent of castration is the real father.
- ^DiCenso, James (1994)."Symbolism and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Approach to Religion".The Journal of Religion.74(1): 45–64.doi:10.1086/489286.JSTOR1203614.S2CID144297576.Retrieved2022-12-11.
The drives, for example, appear under the register of the real as need, under the imaginary as demand, and under the symbolic as desire.
- ^Dor, Joël (1999). Gurewich, Judith (ed.).The Clinical Lacan.Other Press. p. 117.ISBN978-1-892746-05-4.
The dynamics of desire usually evolve in a threefold rhythm:desireseparates out fromneedand then enters intodemand.
- ^Hurst, Andrea (2008). "7 The Lacanian Real".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 213–236.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.14.
These formulations of the Lacanian Real come so close to the formulations already offered ofdifférancethat one could without injustice argue for an accord between the two notions.
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "4 The real writing of Lacan: Another writing".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 202–269.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.10.
[T]he 'letter' is the realof the symbolic[...]Lalangueis for Lacan a symptomatic moment in the use of language where its real lettricity or trace-structure comes to the fore. It comes to the fore in repetition or similar phenomena in which language is evacuated of meaning. [...]Lalangueis the moment at which, by failing to make sense, language ceases to communicate. But by failing to communicate, to institute an intersubjective event of meaning, it manages toexpressthe real subject of enunciation in language.
- ^Guattari, Félix (2006) [1992].Chaosmosis: an ethico-aesthetic paradigm.Translated by Bains, Paul; Pefanis, Julian. Power Publications. pp. 79–80.ISBN978-0-909952-25-9.
As for neurotics, they present all the variants of avoidance evoked above, beginning with the simplest and most reifying, that of phobia, followed by hysteria, which forges from them substitutes in social space and the body, ending with obsessional neurosis which, for its part, secretes a perpetual temporal 'différance' (Derrida), an indefinite procrastination.
- ^Grigg, Russell (2001). "Discourse". In Glowinski, Huguette; Marks, Zita M.; Murphy, Sara (eds.).A Compendium of Lacanian Terms.Free Association Books. p. 70.ISBN1-85343-538-4.
The real driving force behind the hysteric's discourse is the impossible, the Real; the same goes for pure science, for quantified science.
- ^Fink, Bruce(1995). "The Four Discourses".The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance.Princeton University Press. p. 134.ISBN978-0-691-01589-7.
[I]n the hysteric's discourse, object (a) appears in the position of truth. That means that the truth of the hysteric's discourse, its hidden motor force, is the real.
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "1 Lacan: The name-of-the-father and the phallus".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 16–79.ISBN9780748636037.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.7.
[I]n the real, the process of individuation is always incomplete, and it is only language which constructs the illusion that it is complete, that the river has stopped flowing and is now identical with itself.
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "2 Deconstructing Lacan".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 80–147.ISBN9780748636037.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.8.
In the real, it is supposed, entities do not depend on other things for their identity.
- ^Dor, Joël (1999). Gurewich, Judith (ed.).The Clinical Lacan.Other Press. pp. 69–82.ISBN978-1-892746-05-4.
- ^Hurst, Andrea (2008). "11 The Death Drive and Ethical Action".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 318–347.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.19.
Masculine libido believes that jouissance lies in finally realizing the ideal whole, but its death drive toward retrospective illusion of this 'lost' ideal is inherently inhibited because it aims at a delusion, which, therefore, cannot ever be realized. Feminine libido, to the contrary, already knows that the world lacks any legitimate ideal that could ground, unify, and organize all of its parts. Feminine libido, in other words, remains open to Nietzsche's radical nihilism[.] [...] However, to try to force the impossible Real to appear will bring about, on the other side of masculine fanaticism, another kind of terror, namely the will to utter destruction or the will to a chaotic, schizoid state where nothing stable can ever take hold. [...] Those fixated to the feminine death drive compulsively and relentlessly resist any existing order. In other words, to become 'hysterical' is to become fixated to a nonplace in the community and to define oneself, mimicking Hegel, as its 'eternal irony.' [...] jouissance would entail her total exclusion from the world of the living.
- ^Crockett, Clayton (2007). "4 Foreclosing God: Heidegger, Lacan, and Kristeva".Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory.Fordham University Press. pp. 68–80.ISBN9780823227211.JSTORj.ctt13x03fr.8.
Artistic discourse refuses to disavow either desire or reality and therefore represents 'a microscopic expansion of the 'true-real,' ' (227).
- ^Crockett, Clayton (2007). "2 We Are All Mad: Theology in the Shadow of a Black Sun".Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory.Fordham University Press. pp. 37–50.ISBN9780823227211.JSTORj.ctt13x03fr.6.
To these alternatives [on madness] Kristeva develops a notion of artistic discourse, which combines elements of neurosis and psychosis into a hallucinatory hysterical discourse, which she claims becomes 'a microscopic expansion of the 'true-real,'[.'] This language 'obliterates [conventional] reality and makes the Real loom forth as a jubilant Enigma.'
- ^abNoorMohammadi, Susan (2015)."The Role of Poetic Image in Gaston Bachelard's Contribution to Architecture: The Enquiry into an Educational Approach in Architecture".Environmental Philosophy.12(1): 67–86.doi:10.5840/envirophil201551421.JSTOR26169821.Retrieved2022-05-25.
Inspired by Bachelard's theory, [Juhani] Pallasamaa states that the forceful mental and emotional impact of a great work is connected to the real image, which touches the depths before it stirs the surface (Pallasamaa 2011, 64) [...] Bachelard's research of the definitions of 'real images' or 'poetic images' and their connections with imagination and memory is significant.
- ^Rank, Otto (1932).Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development.Translated by Atkinson, Charles Francis. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 240.ISBN978-0-393-30574-6.
By creating, man makes himself independent of that which exists, or at least he makes a very considerable effort to do so; so far as speech is concerned we can see it in name-magic. [...] lived on in the Pneuma-doctrine[.]
- ^Guattari, Félix (2006) [1992].Chaosmosis: an ethico-aesthetic paradigm.Translated by Bains, Paul; Pefanis, Julian. Power Publications. p. 66.ISBN978-0-909952-25-9.
- ^Nietzsche, Friedrich(1976) [1878]. "Human, All-Too-Human".The Portable Nietzsche.Translated by Kaufman, Walter. Penguin Books. p. 53.ISBN978-0-14-015062-9.
- ^Lacan, Jacques; Mehlman, Jeffrey (1987)."Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar".Television.40:81–95.doi:10.2307/778344.JSTOR778344.Retrieved2022-11-18.
- ^Hurst, Andrea (2008). "7 The Lacanian Real".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 213–236.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.14.
- ^Hurst, Andrea (2008). "7 The Lacanian Real".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 213–236.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.14.
Lacan introduces a term borrowed from Aristotle, 'thetuché,' to name this encounter, which may be described alternatively as the traumatic cause of the repetition compulsion or simply as the Real. Thetuchéis here contrasted with 'theautomaton,' which designates the fabric of phenomenal reality that we humans tend to weave around the Real. [...] Lacan argues, the repetition compulsion is accurately seen to be the 'real cause' of what occurs in the transference[.]
- ^George, Sheldon (2012)."Approaching the 'Thing' of Slavery: A Lacanian Analysis of Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'".African American Review.45(1/2): 115–130.doi:10.1353/afa.2012.0008.JSTOR23783440.S2CID161543695.Retrieved2022-12-11.
tuché,or an encounter with the Real.
- ^Leeb, Claudia (2008)."Toward a Theoretical Outline of the Subject: The Centrality of Adorno and Lacan for Feminist Political Theorizing".Political Theory.36(3): 351–376.doi:10.1177/0090591708315142.JSTOR20452637.S2CID145201953.Retrieved2022-12-26.
Lacan's attempt to encircle the Real is echoed by Adorno's concept of 'constellation.'
- ^Luque, Juan Luis Pérez de (August 2013)."Lovecraft, Reality, and the Real: A Žižekian Approach".Lovecraft Annual(7): 187–203.JSTOR26868476.Retrieved2022-01-16.
Seminar I: Freud's Papers on Technique
- ^Bailly, Lionel (2020). "Real, Symbolic, Imaginary".Lacan: A Beginner's Guide.Oneworld Beginner’s Guides. Oneworld. p. 98.ISBN978-1-85168-637-7.
The Real is a featureless clay from which reality is fashioned by the Symbolic; it is the chaos from which the world came into being, by means of the Word.
- ^Johnson, Kevin A.; Asenas, Jennifer J. (2013)."The Lacanian Real as a Productive Supplement to Rhetorical Critique".Rhetoric Society Quarterly.43(2): 155–176.doi:10.1080/02773945.2013.768349.JSTOR24753546.S2CID144028476.Retrieved2022-01-17.
Victor J. Vitanza[...states] 'the LacanianReal' is associated 'with the Gorgian notion ofKairos,both of which divide theLogos'
- ^Long, Jordana Ashman (2018)."The Romance and the Real: A.S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance".Mythlore.37(1): 147–164.JSTOR26809329.Retrieved2022-01-18.
Bruce Fink clarifies, 'The real is perhaps best understood asthat which has not yet been symbolized,remains to be symbolized, or even resists symbolization'
- ^Fink, Bruce(1995). "The Creative Function of the Word: The Symbolic and the Real".The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance.Princeton University Press. p. 25.ISBN978-0-691-01589-7.
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- ^Žižek, Slavoj(1989). "Part III The Subject: Which Subject of the Real?".The Sublime Object of Ideology.Verso. p. 184.ISBN978-1-84467-300-1.
[I]t becomes clear that the Real par excellence isjouissance:jouissancedoes not exist, it is impossible, but it produces a number of traumatic events.
- ^Parker, Ian(2011).Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity.Advancing Theory in Therapy. NY: Routledge. pp. 88, 153.ISBN978-0-415-45543-5.
[A]lienation is 'real' as [a] gap in the symbolic, as a necessary contradiction that sustains the way we account for where we are in this political-economic 'reality'. [...] [And] spirituality as a call to the subject that is from way outside taken-for-granted reality, a call that assumes form as something traumatic to the subject that is quite close to what Lacanians might conceptualise as 'real'.
- ^Carroll, Noël(1990).The Philosophy of HorrororParadoxes of the Heart.New York, NY: Routledge. p. 165.ISBN0-415-90145-6.
The analogy between horror and religious experience is often framed, explicitly or implicitly, in terms of the analysis of religious ornuminousexperience developed byRudolf Ottoin his[...]proto-phenomenological classicThe Idea of the Holy.
- ^Long, Jordana Ashman (2018)."The Romance and the Real: A.S. Byatt's Possession: A Romance".Mythlore.37(1): 147–164.JSTOR26809329.Retrieved2022-01-18.
Lacan associates the Real with trauma. [...] The Real naturally takes on what Glyn Daly identifies as a 'transcendental aspect'[.]
- ^Bloom, Harold(1980). "Freud's Concepts of Defense and the Poetic Will". In Smith, Joseph H. (ed.).The Literary Freud: Mechanisms of Defense and the Poetic Will.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 4. Yale University Press. pp. 7–8.ISBN0-300-02405-3.
'[T]hose very objects so terrible to the will[...]he is then filled with the feeling of thesublime...' [...] Repression, like the movement to the Sublime, is a turning operation, away from the drive and toward the heaping up of the unconscious. Pragmatically, repression, likeSchopenhauer's Sublime, exalts mind over reality, over the hostile object-world[.]
- ^Champagne, Roland A. (1979)."The Dialectics of Style: Insights from the Semiology of Roland Barthes".Style.13(3): 279–291.JSTOR42945251.Retrieved2022-01-18.
A reality is thus implemented by differentiation from another already recognized as existing.
- ^MacCannell, Juliet Flower (1983)."Oedipus Wrecks: Lacan, Stendhal and the Narrative Form of the Real".MLN.98(5): 910–940.doi:10.2307/2906054.JSTOR2906054.Retrieved2022-01-17.
[F]or Lacan[...]The Real lurks in [...] the very signifiers out of which the Symbolic is constructed [...] whose method consists in separating signifiers not from theirreferent(their referents are already symbols) but from the aim of satisfaction, from conscious desire [...] The story that narrates the act both of stopping the fiction-making machine [...] by examining both the impossibility of satisfaction, and ironically, simultaneously, itsreality,makes a good narrative against narratives.
- ^Barthes, Roland;Duisit, Lionel (1975)."An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative".New Literary History.6(2): 237–272.doi:10.2307/468419.JSTOR468419.Retrieved2022-01-18.
A. J. Greimas…has proposed…in narrative…desire (or the quest)[.]
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- ^Lacan, Jacques(2006) [1966]. "Seminar on 'The Purloined Letter'".Écrits.Translated byFink, Bruce.W. W. Norton & Company. p. 17.ISBN978-0-393-32925-4.
For it can literally be said that something is missing from its place only of what can change it: the symbolic. For the real, whatever upheaval we subject it to, is always in its place; it carries it glued to its heel, ignorant of what might exile it from it.
- ^Botting, Fred (1994)."Relations of the Real in Lacan, Bataille and Blanchot".SubStance.23(73): 24–40.doi:10.2307/3684791.JSTOR3684791.Retrieved2022-01-16.
(SeminarII:97)
- ^Botting, Fred (1994)."Relations of the Real in Lacan, Bataille and Blanchot".SubStance.23(73): 24–40.doi:10.2307/3684791.JSTOR3684791.Retrieved2022-01-16.
[quote from]SeminarII:303... [and principles from] 1966:388
- ^abKristeva, Julia(2002) [1989]. "Powers of Horror". In Oliver, Kelly (ed.).The Portable Kristeva.European Perspectives (updated ed.). Columbia University Press. pp. 230, 238, 241.ISBN0-231-12629-8.
To each ego its object, to each superego its abject. [...] There is an effervescence of object and sign—not of desire but of intolerable significance; they tumble over into non-sense or the impossible real, but they appear even so in spite of 'myself' (which is not) as abjection. [...] [Abjection] takes the ego back to its source on the abominable limits[...]the ego has broken away[...]non-ego, drive, and death. Abjection is a resurrection that has gone through death (of the ego).
- ^Foster, Hal (1996)."Obscene, Abject, Traumatic".October.78:106–124.doi:10.2307/778908.JSTOR778908.Retrieved2022-03-23.
The breaching of the body, the gaze devouring the subject, the subject becoming the space, the state of mere similarity [or, the uncanny.] [...] If there is a subject of history for the culture of abjection at all, it is[...]the Corpse.
- ^Still, Judith (1997)."Horror in Kristeva and Bataille: Sex and Violence".Paragraph.20(3): 221–239.doi:10.3366/para.1997.20.3.221.JSTOR43263665.Retrieved2022-03-23.
Naomi Schor writes: 'Otherness in Beauvoir's scheme of things is utter negativity; it is the realm of what Kristeva has called the abject.' [...] the abject must exist on the borderbetweeninside and outside – you generate fresh neither/nors: neither accepting a frontier nor breaching it. [...] [an] impossible, non-space. [...] neither subject nor object[.] [...] The abject is not theobjet a
- ^Smith, Joseph H. (1992). "Mourning, Art, and Human Historicity". In Smith, Joseph H.; Morris, Humphrey (eds.).Telling Facts: History and Narration in Psychoanalysis.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 13. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 131.ISBN0-8018-4305-7.
By extension of each person's fear of literally dying, with its unknown time and mode, would be conditioned by various modes of dying throughout life. Death and threatening death as absence, lack, alienation, separation, and loss enter in with the first imaging. Death symbolizes all of these, and all of these symbolize death. This is the meaning of castration.
- ^Fink, Bruce(1995). "There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship".The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance.Princeton University Press. pp. 99, 101.ISBN978-0-691-01589-7.
Lacan's notion of castration focuses essentially on the renunciation of jouissance and not on the penis, and therefore that it applies to both men and women insofar as they 'alienate' (in the Marxist sense of the term) a part of their jouissance. [...] Limit, lack, loss: these [...] constitute what Lacan refers to as castration.
- ^Świątkowski, Piotrek (2015). "Depressive position".Deleuze and Desire: Analysis of The Logic of Sense.Vol. 14. Leuven University Press. pp. 57–88.doi:10.2307/j.ctt180r0rj.7.ISBN9789462700314.JSTORj.ctt180r0rj.7.
The high degree of anxiety about the loss of the good object frequently leads to a higher degree of submission to the rules of others. In that case the ego becomes fully dependent on the rules imposed upon it by the super-ego.
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "1 Lacan: The name-of-the-father and the phallus".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 16–79.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.10.
The ego is 'a particular object within the experience of the subject. Literally, the ego is an object' (SII: 44; cf. SI: 193).
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[W]hen the Symbolic Order is suspended and the actual Antigone becomes the Thing. In this moment of collapse, she herself becomes singular, unfathomable, inimitable. To repeat Žižek's words: 'for a brief, passing moment of decision, she is the Thing directly.' Thus she is the one for whom there is no mirroring neighbor, and she excludes herself from the network of rules that constitutes communal life, becoming the traumatic cause of her own framework of value.
- ^DiCenso, James (1994)."Symbolism and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Approach to Religion".The Journal of Religion.74(1): 45–64.doi:10.1086/489286.JSTOR1203614.S2CID144297576.Retrieved2022-12-11.
Lacan is also very close to Heidegger in viewing both the threat of death and the experience of anxiety as potential occasions for self-transformation.
- ^Seitler, Dana (2018)."Willing to Die: Addiction and Other Ambivalences of Living".Cultural Critique.98:1–21.doi:10.5749/culturalcritique.98.2018.0001.JSTOR10.5749/culturalcritique.98.2018.0001.S2CID149685925.Retrieved2022-12-11.
Addiction thus enabled a certain enactment of, or engagement with, my constitutive lack—what Lacan calls 'being-for-death' (1977, 114).
- ^Crockett, Clayton (2007). "3 Desiring the Thing: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis".Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory.Fordham University Press. pp. 51–67.ISBN9780823227211.JSTORj.ctt13x03fr.7.
[I]deal desire, which is, strictly speaking, impossible. Here the arc of desire is asymptotic in its approximation of the limit, God or death. This is the ideal form of desire, which sustains an unbelievable and impossible tension in its approach of its goal or telos.
- ^Kawai, Hayao(1996).Buddhism and the Art of Psychotherapy.Texas A&M University Press. p. 111.ISBN978-1-60344-053-0.
David Rosen'sTransforming Depression[...] introducing the key concept of 'egocide.'
- ^Brown, Rebecca; Stobart, Karen (2018) [2008].Understanding Boundaries and Containment in Clinical Practice.The Society of Analytical Psychology Monograph Series. Routledge. p. 18.ISBN978-1-85575-393-8.
We use the term pre-oedipal to define the baby's earliest awareness of [dyadic] 'otherness'[.]
- ^Wiley, Norbert (1994).The Semiotic Self.Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. p. 118.ISBN0-226-89816-4.
[I]n the oedipal period, the father-function is added to the mother-child dyad of the pre-oedipal, [and] the semiotic triad is [then] completed[.]
- ^Fink, Bruce(1995). "The Creative Function of the Word: The Symbolic and the Real".The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance.Princeton University Press. p. 27.ISBN978-0-691-01589-7.
[A] real before the letter, that is, a presymbolic real, which, in the final analysis, is but our own hypothesis (R1)[.] [A] real after the letter [...] (R2) [...] is generated by the symbolic.
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "1 Lacan: The name-of-the-father and the phallus".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 16–79.ISBN9780748636037.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.7.
Thus our self-relation, our understanding of who and what we are, is fully determined, at the level of both the imaginary ['who'] (which is to say the signified) and the symbolic ['what'] (which is to say the signifier). These are both alienations because our real singularity is neither a 'who' nor a 'what'. Itprecedesthe determination of the individual subject (ipseity, whoness) and the determination of an essence (quiddity, whatness).
- ^abLloyd, Moya (2006). "Julia Kristeva (1941–)". In Simons, Jon (ed.).Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 135–151.ISBN9780748617197.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctvxcrrt8.13.
The semiotic, for Kristeva, is a pre-linguistic or pre-symbolic space, the realm of the 'unspeakable' or the 'unnameable', or what Kristeva following Plato calls the 'chora'. It is the site of energies and bodily drives [...] It is related to what psychoanalysts call the pre-oedipal, that is, [...] a symbiotic state with the mother in which it cannot distinguish between its own body and hers.
- ^Hurst, Andrea (2008). "7 The Lacanian Real".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 213–236.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.14.
[T]he paradoxicalkhôralspace/gap constituted by the 'lamella.'
- ^abLacan, Jacques(2006) [1966]. "On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis".Écrits.Translated byFink, Bruce.W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 718–719.ISBN978-0-393-32925-4.
'lamella' [...] this image and this myth seem to me apt for both illustrating and situating what I call 'libido.' This image shows 'libido' to be what it is—namely, an organ, to which its habit make it far more akin than to a force field. [...] This organ must be called 'unreal,' in the sense in which the unreal is not the [post mirror stage] imaginary and precedes the subjective realm it conditions, being in direct contact with the real. That is what my myth, like any other myth, strives to provide a symbolic articulation for, rather than an image. [...]Libidois this lamella that the organism's being takes to its true limit, which goes further than the body's limit. [...] This lamella is an organ, since it is an instrument of an organism.
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- ^Guattari, Félix (2006) [1992].Chaosmosis: an ethico-aesthetic paradigm.Translated by Bains, Paul; Pefanis, Julian. Power Publications. p. 96.ISBN978-0-909952-25-9.
The most elaborate narratives, myths and icons always return to this point of chaosmic see-sawing, to this singular ontological orality. [...] When I "consume" a work — a term which ought to be changed, because it can just as easily be absence of work — I carry out a complex ontological crystallisation, an alterification of beings-there. [...] Not only is I an other, but it is a multitude of modalities of alterity.
- ^Sloterdijk, Peter (2011). "Nobjects and Un-Relationships".Spheres.Foreign Agents Series. Vol. I: Bubbles: Microspherology. Translated by Wieland, Hoban. Semiotext(e). p. 294.ISBN978-1-58435-104-7.
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "3 The real and the development of the imaginary".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 148–201.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.9.
- ^MacCannell, Juliet Flower (1983)."Oedipus Wrecks: Lacan, Stendhal and the Narrative Form of the Real".MLN.98(5): 910–940.doi:10.2307/2906054.JSTOR2906054.Retrieved2022-01-17.
Malcolm Bowie writes, that the Real is impossible to distinguish from the Symbolic except in the fact that it is 'ineffable' (198, p. 135)
- ^Kernberg, Otto (1995) [1976].Object-Relations Theory and Clinical Psychoanalysis.Jason Aronson, Inc. p. 64.ISBN1-56821-612-2.
[T]he 'bad' nucleus of self-experience is ascribed to 'uncanny,' disturbing, or frightening experiences and is subject to later projective mechanisms.
- ^McWilliams, Nancy (2020) [2011]. "Primary Defensive Processes".Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Diagnosis(second ed.). The Guilford Press. p. 118.ISBN978-1-4625-4369-4.
Analysts have long described somatizing patients as characterized by alexithymia, or lack of words for affect (Krystal, 1988, 1997; McDougall, 1989; Sifneos, 1973), an observation supported by a recent, comprehensive study by Mattila and colleagues (2008). [...] Waldinger, Shulz, Barsky, and Ahern (2006) found that both insecure attachment and a childhood history of trauma are associated with somatization.
- ^Hurst, Andrea (2008). "7 The Lacanian Real".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 213–236.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.14.
In Derrida's words: 'Something' took place, we have the feeling of not having seen it come, and certain consequences undeniably follow upon the 'thing.' But this very thing, the place and meaning of this 'event,' remains ineffable[.]
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- ^Jameson, Fredric (1977)."Imaginary and Symbolic in Lacan: Marxism, Psychoanalytic Criticism, and the Problem of the Subject".Yale French Studies(55/56): 338–395.doi:10.2307/2930443.JSTOR2930443.Retrieved2022-01-17.
[W]hat is meant by the real in Lacan[?][...]It is simply History itself[.]
- ^Buchanan, Ian (2021).The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis.Edinburgh University Press. p. 92.ISBN978-1-4744-8789-4.
History, as [Frederic] Jameson sees it, is an active force that every writer has to confront [...] choices to do with how they construct their characters, the shape of the narratives, down to the style of their sentences — are symptomatic of the times.
- ^abHurst, Andrea (2008). "7 The Lacanian Real".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 213–236.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.14.
[T]he relation to the Real in the transference is expressed in terms of theautomaton:such analysts [...] apprehend, an original event, a first encounter, the positively present 'real thing' that lies behind the fantasy. It is, supposedly, this determinable event in narrative history that the analysand repeats or acts out (in disguise) in the transference.
- ^Marriott, David S. (2021).Lacan Noir: Lacan and Afro-pessimism.The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 18, 47, 71.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-74978-1.ISBN978-3-030-74977-4.S2CID242148951.
[I]t would be[...]absurd to think about the signifier without desire. [...] The object has to be symbolized as an absence[.] [...] The object leaves behind the trace in its passage to the signifier, and from those who mistake the sign for the object (the white philosopher who colonizes nature as absence?)[.] [...] InBlack Skin, White Masksthe imaginary forms of the ego and object loss are the same, the desire to see oneself as other than one is and the self-mutilating mimicry of object loss is the same.
- ^George, Sheldon (2012)."Approaching the 'Thing' of Slavery: A Lacanian Analysis of Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'".African American Review.45(1/2): 115–130.doi:10.1353/afa.2012.0008.JSTOR23783440.S2CID161543695.Retrieved2022-12-09.
[T]he racist Symbolic, emerging for many African Americans as the Real void into which all losses fall and the 'excluded' center around which all subjective meaning gather (Ethics 71). Race has concomitantly emerged for many African Americans as what Lacan calls theobjet a,the fantasy object that promises to guarantee the fullness of an identity that is both individual and communal, a group identity that can return African Americans to thejouissanceof that illusory wholeness which is figured as having been shattered by slavery in a primal, historical confrontation with lack.
- ^George, Sheldon (2012)."Approaching the 'Thing' of Slavery: A Lacanian Analysis of Toni Morrison's 'Beloved'".African American Review.45(1/2): 115–130.doi:10.1353/afa.2012.0008.JSTOR23783440.S2CID161543695.Retrieved2022-12-09.
[Sheldon George] read Morrison'sBelovedas a textual representation of race and the racial past of slavery as sublimated representatives of the Lacanian Real.
- ^Crockett, Clayton (2007). "9 Expressing the Real: Lacan and the Limits of Language".Interstices of the Sublime: Theology and Psychoanalytic Theory.Fordham University Press. pp. 148–164.ISBN9780823227211.JSTORj.ctt13x03fr.13.
In Lacanian terms, the Real would constitute the critique of symbolic, signifying categories and the shift toward an opacity of vision [...] one that would acknowledge the necessity of W. E. B. Dubois's double-consciousness.
- ^Botting, Fred (1994)."Relations of the Real in Lacan, Bataille and Blanchot".SubStance.23(73): 24–40.doi:10.2307/3684791.JSTOR3684791.Retrieved2022-01-16.
[A]rgues Lacan, 'the real is[...]the return, the coming-back, the insistence of signs, by which we see ourselves governed by thepleasure principle' (53-4).
- ^Bell, Lucy (2011)."Articulations of the Real: from Lacan to Badiou".Paragraph.34(1): 105–120.doi:10.3366/para.2011.0008.ISSN1750-0176.JSTOR43263773.Retrieved2022-01-16.
Lacanian analysis['s] [...] aim is to 'grasp real identity', to grasp the Freudian Thing that is 'in you more than you', albeit through the pure negativity of the subject's non-identity to himself.
- ^Scott, Maria (2008)."Lacan's 'Of the Gaze as Objet Petit a' as Anamorphic Discourse".Paragraph.31(3): 327–343.doi:10.3366/E0264833408000308.JSTOR43151894.S2CID146191352.Retrieved2022-01-17.
Lacan's running metaphor of the text as labyrinth[...]Anamorphosis can therefore be produced by the traversal of a grid[...]the text-tapestry is traversed [...] The objectarepresented by the gaze is, like desire itself for Lacan, metonymic in structure, always slipping away from understanding.
- ^Laing, R. D. (1969) [1959]. "The embodied and unembodied self".The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness.Penguin Books. p. 69.ISBN978-0-14-013537-4.
The unembodied self becomes hyper-conscious. It attempts to posit its own imagos.
- ^Fink, Bruce(1997).A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique.Harvard University Press.ISBN0-674-13536-9.
- ^abMarriott, David S. (2021).Lacan Noir: Lacan and Afro-pessimism.The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 54.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-74978-1.ISBN978-3-030-74977-4.S2CID242148951.
The imago is a primordial structure which makes us say yes, that is me, and no, that is not me. [...] In the imago meanings coalesce into incontrovertible representations (vorstellungen,or word and thing representations).
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "1 Lacan: The name-of-the-father and the phallus".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 16–79.ISBN9780748636037.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.7.
A symptom is a failed attempt on the part of the speaking subject to express itself in language. Thus the symptom is a symptom of ourdesire.
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- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "1 Lacan: The name-of-the-father and the phallus".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 16–79.ISBN9780748636037.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.7.
- ^Lefebvre, Henri (2002) [1974].The Production of Space.Translated by Nicholson-Smith, Donald. Blackwell Publishing. pp. 94–95.ISBN0-631-18177-6.
- ^Sartre, Jean-Paul (1992) [1983].Notebooks For an Ethics.Translated by Pellauer, David. University of Chicago Press. p. 494.ISBN0-226-73511-7.
- ^Brisman, Susan Hawk; Brisman, Leslie (1980). "Lies against Solitude: Symbolic, Imaginary, and Real". In Smith, Joseph H. (ed.).The Literary Freud: Mechanisms of Defense and the Poetic Will.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 4. Yale University Press. p. 40.ISBN0-300-02405-3.
Like an analysand, a poetic speaker may belie the reality of his solitude by invoking an Original Presence (God or idealized parent) or some person or image, like the sea, that represents a fully idealized Presence.
- ^Jung,Carl (1971). "Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy". InCampbell,Joseph (ed.).The Portable Jung.Penguin Books. p. 330.ISBN978-0-14-015070-4.
The sea is the symbol of the collective unconscious, because unfathomed depths lie concealed beneath its reflecting surface.
- ^Thacker, Eugene (2010).In the Dust of this Planet.Vol. [Horror of Philosophy Vol. 1]. Zero Books. p. 31.ISBN978-1-84694-676-9.
If the anthropological demon (the human relating to itself) functioned via metaphor, and if the mythological demon (the human relating to the non-human) functioned via allegory, then perhaps there is a third demon[...]'meontological' (having to do with non-being rather than being).
- ^Tynan, Aidan (2016)."Desert Earth: Geophilosophy and the Anthropocene".Deleuze Studies.10(4): 479–495.doi:10.3366/dls.2016.0240.JSTOR45331751.Retrieved2022-02-10.
[T]he desert is used to evoke the sense of a 'world without others'. [...] but in its [the desert's] hostility to organic life it also suggests the radical discontinuity of a world left bereft by a presence that has withdrawn to the heavens [...] For Nietzsche, a 'basic fact of the human will' is its 'horror vacui', its fear of nothingness or emptiness (Nietzsche 1997: 8). [...] The ascetic ideal—the attachment to a 'spiritual' domain of values rather than to the physical here and now—emerges as a solution to this horror.
- ^Peak, David (2014).The Spectacle of the Void.U.S.A.: Schism Press. p. 43.ISBN978-1503007161.
As Nietzsche so famously wrote inBeyond Good and Evil,'When you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.' This is thehorror within,the finding of oneself, the eternal return of the self and the inescapable prison of consciousness, in the searching of what lies beyond the veil.
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The subject inhabits the 'holes in discourse' (E: 253)[.]
- ^Lacan, Jacques (2006). "The Instance of the Letter in the Unconscious".Écrits.Translated by Fink, Bruce. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 434.ISBN978-0-393-32925-4.
It was the abyss, open to the thought that a thought might make itself heard in the abyss, that gave rise to resistance to psychoanalysis from the outset—not the emphasis on man's sexuality, as is commonly said.
- ^Ricoeur, Paul (1970). "Book III: Dialectic: A Philosophical Interpretation of Freud: 1. Epistemology: Between Psychology and Phenomenology:Psychoanalysis is not Phenomenology".Terry Lectures: Freud & Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation.Translated by Savage, Denis. Yale University Press. p. 402.ISBN978-0-300-02189-9.
[Leplanche and Leclaire] use the bar to express the double nature of repression: it is a barrier that separates the systems, and a relating that ties together the relations of signifier to signified[...]Metaphor is nothing other than repression, and vice versa[.]
- ^Morris, Humphrey (1980). "The Need to Connect: Representations of Freud's Psychical Apparatus". In Smith, Joseph H. (ed.).The Literary Freud: Mechanisms of Defense and the Poetic Will.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 4. Yale University Press. p. 312.ISBN0-300-02405-3.
Übertragenandmetaphereinare synonyms, both meaning to transfer, to carry over or beyond, andI. A. Richardspointed out a long time ago inThe Philosophy of Rhetoricthat what psychoanalysts call transference is another name for metaphor.
- ^Fouad, Jehan Farouk; Alwakeel, Saeed (2013)."Representations of the Desert in Silko's 'Ceremony' and Al-Koni's 'The Bleeding of the Stone'".Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics.33(The Desert: Human Geography and Symbolic Economy): 36–62.JSTOR24487181.Retrieved2022-02-09.
The connection between 'place' and 'metaphor' is evident. Paul Ricœur remarks that 'as figure, metaphor constitutes adisplacementand an extension of the meaning of words; its explanation is grounded in the theory ofsubstitution' (The Rule of Metaphor3; italics added).
- ^Gandy, Matthew (2017)."Urban atmospheres".Cultural Geographies.24(3): 353–374.doi:10.1177/1474474017712995.JSTOR26168827.PMC5732615.PMID29278257.
[A]ffect, language, and atmosphere can be recast as the social milieu that enables the emergence of more complex forms of shared 'metaphorical abstraction'.
- ^Frye, Northrop (1973) [1957].Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays.Princeton University Press. pp. 123, 124, 125, 142, 143.ISBN0-691-01298-9.
[M]etaphor turns its back on ordinary descriptive meaning, and presents a structure which literally is ironic and paradoxical. [...] In the anagogic aspect of meaning, the radical form of metaphor, 'A is B[.]' [...] Interpretation proceeds by metaphor as well as creation[.]... As for human society, the metaphor that we are all members of one body has organized most political theory from Plato to our own day. [...] Plato's Republic[...][wherein] reason, will, and desire of the individual appear as the philosopher-king, guards, and artisans of the state, is also founded on this metaphor, which in fact we still use whenever we speak of a group or aggregate of human beings as a 'body.'
- ^Hillman,James (1977).Re-Visioning Psychology.Harper. pp. 169–170.ISBN978-0-06-090563-7.
Inarchetypal psychologyGods areimagined.They are approached through psychological methods ofpersonifying,pathologizing,and psychologizing. They are formulated ambiguously, as metaphors for modes of experience and asnuminousborderline persons. They are cosmic perspectives in which the soul participates. They are lords of its realms of being, the patterns for itsmimesis.
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[A] becoming of the State: its internalization in a field of increasingly decoded social forces forming a physical system; its spiritualization in a superterrestrial field that increasingly overcodes, forming a metaphysical system.
- ^Smith, Joseph H. (1992). "Mourning, Art, and Human Historicity". In Smith, Joseph H.; Morris, Humphrey (eds.).Telling Facts: History and Narration in Psychoanalysis.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 13. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 137.ISBN0-8018-4305-7.
Metaphor, in which one thing can substitute for another, is usually thought to occur only after the differentiation of image and object; of memory, percept, and anticipation; of the 'I' and the other.
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- ^Hooper, Barbara (2001)."Desiring Presence, Romancing the Real".Annals of the Association of American Geographers.91(4): 703–715.doi:10.1111/0004-5608.00269.JSTOR3651232.S2CID140190665.Retrieved2022-02-09.
Cartesian and cartographic anxiety would be, in [Edward] Casey's terms, the place-panic[.] [...] Chaos, with its material confusion and gaping character, also gives rise to 'place-panic' [the 'depression or terror...of an empty space'] ([Edward] Casey 1997 [6,] 10). Place is a presence that prevents the anxiety produced by absence, orhorror vacui.[...] When the Demiurge confrontschorain this formless state, he 'is threatened' (Casey 1997, 37) [...]Chorais the thing on which things come to appearance.
- ^Casey, Edward S. (2001)."Between Geography and Philosophy: What Does It Mean to Be in the Place-World?".Annals of the Association of American Geographers.91(4): 683–693.doi:10.1111/0004-5608.00266.JSTOR3651229.S2CID56055085.Retrieved2022-02-09.
[L]landscape and the body are effective epicenters of the geographical self. The one widens out our vista of the place-world—all the way to the horizon—while the other literally incorporates this same world and acts upon it.
- ^Dreyfus,Hubert L. (1991).Being-in-the-World: A Commentary on Heidegger'sBeing and Time,Division I.The MIT Press. p. 179.ISBN978-0-262-54056-8.
But unlike ordinary equipmental breakdown, anxiety is atotaldisturbance. [...] it reveals the whole world as if from outside. It reveals the groundlessness of the world and ofDasein's being-in-the-world. 'That in the face of which one has anxiety is being-in-the-world as such' (230) [186].
- ^Rank, Otto (1932).Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development.Translated by Atkinson, Charles Francis. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 208, 209.ISBN978-0-393-30574-6.
Another Vedic tradition, preserved in the late hymn of theRigveda,tells how the gods made the world from the dismembered body of the primitive giant Purushu [...] represents a cosmic extension of man into the universe: the foot which touches the earth is extended to be the earth itself, the head which stretches heavenward is raised and magnified to be the heaven itself—in a term of Schopenhauer's (which incidentally contains his whole teaching), we are dealing with a 'makanthropos.'
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- ^Stolorow, Robert D. (2011).World, Affectivity, Trauma: Heidegger and post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis.Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series. Vol. 35. Routledge. p. 17.ISBN978-0-203-81581-6.
- ^Guattari, Félix (2006) [1992].Chaosmosis: an ethico-aesthetic paradigm.Translated by Bains, Paul; Pefanis, Julian. Power Publications. p. 103.ISBN978-0-909952-25-9.
Dualisms in an impasse, like the oppositions between[...]the real and the imaginary, involve a recourse to transcendent, omnipotent and homogenetic instances: God, Being, Absolute Spirit, Energy, The Signifier[.]
- ^Brown, Rebecca; Stobart, Karen (2018) [2008].Understanding Boundaries and Containment in Clinical Practice.The Society of Analytical Psychology Monograph Series. Routledge. p. 52.ISBN978-1-85575-393-8.
The Transcendent Function is a rather complex Jungian concept that describes the capacity of the mind to bridge conscious and unconscious thought. [...] Describing the Transcendent Function as a 'third hand' applies to the Oedipal concept of the 'threeness'[.]
- ^Horney, Karen (1994) [1968].Self-Analysis.W. W. Norton. p. 127.ISBN0-393-31165-1.
'[R]esistance.' [...] His associations become shallow, unproductive, and evasive [...] He may reject every attempt to help with a rigid feeling of hopelessness and futility. Fundamentally, the reason for this impasse is that certain insights are not acceptable to the patient; they are too painful, too frightening, and they undermine illusions that he cherishes and is incapable of relinquishing. [...] all he knows, or thinks he knows, is that he is misunderstood or humiliated or that the work is futile.
- ^Young, Mark (2020). "Confrontation".Learning the Art of Helping: Building Blocks and Techniques.Pearson. p. 168.
A discrepancy is an inconsistency, mixed message, or conflict among a client's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
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[T]he most resistant resistance, the 'hard kernel' that puts a stop to analysis is also a seed, as disseminative asdifferance,as productive of new life.
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "1 Lacan: The name-of-the-father and the phallus".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 16–79.ISBN9780748636037.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.7.
The ego is that whichresiststhe unconscious's acceding to consciousness. [...] The (unconscious) subject ispurespeech, outside of all language.
- ^Jacques, Lacan; Jeffrey, Mehlman (1987)."Introduction to the Names-of-the-Father Seminar".Television.40:81–95.doi:10.2307/778344.JSTOR778344.Retrieved2022-11-18.
- ^Schwall, Hedwig (1997)."Lacan or an Introduction to the Realms of Unknowing".Literature and Theology.11(2): 125–144.doi:10.1093/litthe/11.2.125.JSTOR23926831.Retrieved2022-05-15.
Especially in this lonely prayer, Jesus prefigures the situation of the mystic who must go through the night of the senses, through a period in which God [Yahweh] seems to avert his face. Lacan sees something similar in the moment of the 'passe', the moment of crisis in a speaking cure in which all subjectivity, the last imaginary residue, all self-love falls away. There, the defences of the 'I' (both in its [barred subject symbol]- and [petit objet] a-aspect, i.e. as a speaking subject and one who seeks the image of his self at a moment of crisis) are overruled and the [Big Other] A takes over; this is an experience which approximates the 'real I', the hallucinatory[.]
- ^Horney, Karen (1994) [1968].Self-Analysis.W. W. Norton. p. 133.ISBN0-393-31165-1.
To him [patient] an undermining of his inflated notions means a destruction of his faith in himself. He realizes that he is not as saintly, as loving, as powerful, as independent as he had believed, and he cannot accept himself bereft of glory. At that point he needs someone who does not lose faith in him, even though his own faith is gone.
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "1 Lacan: The name-of-the-father and the phallus".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 16–79.ISBN9780748636037.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.7.
'One trains analysts so that there aresubjectsin whom theegois absent. That is the ideal of analysis, which, of course, remains virtual.There is never a subject without an ego,a fully realised subject, but that in fact is what one mustaimto obtain from the subject in analysis' (SII: 246, my italics).
- ^Smith, Joseph H.; Kerrigan, William, eds. (1983).Interpreting Lacan.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 6. Yale University Press. pp. 54, 168, 173, 199, 202, 219.ISBN978-0-300-13581-7.
- ^Bailly, Lionel (2020). "Real, Symbolic, Imaginary".Lacan: A Beginner's Guide.Oneworld Beginner’s Guides. Oneworld. p. 48.ISBN978-1-85168-637-7.
For Lacan, there are no signifieds in the unconscious, only signifiers.
- ^Boothby, Richard (2001).Freud as Philosopher: metapsychology after Lacan.Routledge. pp. 13, 14.ISBN0-415-92590-8.
The Lacanian subject is 'strung along' by the unfolding of the chain of signifiers; its very being is conditioned by the organization of a linguistic code.... For Lacan, the unconscious is 'the discourse of the Other.' Human desire is 'the desire of the Other.'
- ^Dor, Joël (1999). Gurewich, Judith (ed.).The Clinical Lacan.Other Press. p. 19.ISBN978-1-892746-05-4.
Editor's Note
- ^Schwartz-Salant, Nathan (2018) [1989].The Borderline Personality: Vision and Healing.Chiron Publications. p. 26.ISBN978-1-63051-515-7.
In his study of faith in the works of Winnicott, Bion, and Lacan, Michael Eigen writes that 'It is [the] intersection of profound vulnerability and saving indestructability that brings the paradox of faith to a new level' (1981, p. 416) [...] The 'object' survives the attacks of the 'subject' just as Job survives Yahweh's attacks.
- ^abKacirek, Susanne (1988). "Subject-Object Differentiation in the Analysis of Borderline Cases: The Great Mother, the Self, and Others". In Swartz-Salant, Nathan; Stein, Murray (eds.).The Borderline Personality in Analysis.The Chiron Clinical Series. Chiron Publications. pp. 87, 88.ISBN0-933029-13-6.
This grandiose Self-Great Mother construction has nothing spontaneous about it, and the only alternative to its stony embrace is the black hole: Nothingness. The Self is indeed the prisoner of the Death Mother. [...] That emptiness was filled by the negative pole of the combined Self-Great Mother archetype, i.e., the black unconsciousness of a Death Mother.
- ^Campbell, Joseph (2008) [1949]. "Initiation: The Ultimate Boon".The Hero with a Thousand Faces.New World Library. p. 163.ISBN978-1-57731-593-3.
- ^WHITE, ROBERT S. (2011)."Bion and Mysticism: The Western Tradition".American Imago.68(2): 213–240.doi:10.1353/aim.2011.0027.JSTOR26305190.S2CID170557065.Retrieved2022-08-23.
'I [Bion] shall use the sign O to denote that which is the ultimate reality represented by terms such as absolute truth, the godhead, the infinite, the thing-in-itself. [...] it can 'become,'[.'...] For Bion, there is an original oneness that is split by the catastrophic divisions of birth and subsequent traumas[....] Fantasies of oneness can be found in the need for fusion or what Freud (1930) termed the 'oceanic feeling.' [...] Michael Eigen (1981) sees O as the emotional truth of a session. O, for both commentators [Ogden and Eigen], has luminosity; it expresses wonder and ineffability, a truth that cannot be reduced to facts.
- ^WHITE, ROBERT S. (2011)."Bion and Mysticism: The Western Tradition".American Imago.68(2): 213–240.doi:10.1353/aim.2011.0027.JSTOR26305190.S2CID170557065.Retrieved2022-08-23.
The [Bionian] analyst ['refraining' from reactionary memory or desire] allows himself to become a pure container, into which flow the patient's projections and [Beta]-elements [or inner-object projections]. [... allowing for] the emergence of the unknown and formless void[.]
- ^Lerner, Pablo (2024) [2023].Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis: Rings and Voids.The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series.doi:10.4324/9781003278740.ISBN978-1-03-224477-8.
We may interpret Spinoza's God as the real, and the finite sum of the causally interconnected finite modes conceived under the attribute of thought as the symbolic.
- ^Shaviro, Steven (2014). "Noncorrelational Thought".The Universe of Things: on Speculative Realism.University of Minnesota Press. p. 130.ISBN978-0-8166-8926-2.
[Laruelle] insists on a 'non-intuitive phenomenality,' which manifests the 'radical immanenceorimmanence (to) itself' of the Real, or of what he calls 'the One' (Laruelle 1999, 141).
- ^Cioran, E. M. (1956). "Some Blind Alleys: A Letter".The Temptation To Exist.Translated byHoward,Richard. Arcade Publishing. p. 121.ISBN978-1-61145-738-4.
- ^Chase, Cynthia (1992). "Translating the Transference: Psychoanalysis and the Construction of History". In Smith, Joseph H.; Morris, Humphrey (eds.).Telling Facts: History and Narration in Psychoanalysis.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 13. The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 107.ISBN0-8018-4305-7.
The category of the Real radically reorients the notion of 'reality' in Freud's text. Whereas Freudian 'reality' is constituted by 'symbolizing what ought to be symbolized (castration),' in Laplanche and Pontalis's revealing paraphrase (1973, 168), the Real is what can enter psychical experience only through hallucination. 'What has been foreclosed from the Symbolic reappears in the Real' (Lacan 1966, 388). Disavowal would then be a mode of access to as well as a mode of defense against 'history,' now construed as that which eludes symbolization.
- ^Hecq, Dominique (2001). "Foreclosure". In Glowinski, Huguette; Marks, Zita M.; Murphy, Sara (eds.).A Compendium of Lacanian Terms.Free Association Books. pp. 72, 74.ISBN1-85343-538-4.
[P]sychosis produces two holes where in the Other in the place places where the Name-of-the-Father and the phallus should be[.] [...] Lacan borrowed the term 'foreclosure' [...] to convey the exclusion of a signifier in psychosis [...and the term] roughly corresponds to the GermanVerwefung(repudiation) used by Freud [...and can be] defined as a process of exclusion of the primary signifier, marked by the foreclosure of the Name-of-the-Father. Here is the origin of the Lacanian formula for psychosis as a hole, a lack at the level of the signifier.
- ^Fink, Bruce(1995).The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance.Princeton University Press. p. 45.ISBN978-0-691-01589-7.
Lacan states that in psychosis this split [barring/dividing] cannot be assumed to have occurred at all[.]
- ^Grigg, Russell (2008).Lacan, Language, and Philosophy.State University of New York Press. p. 10.ISBN978-0-7914-7345-0.
- ^Marriott, David S. (2021).Lacan Noir: Lacan and Afro-pessimism.The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 109.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-74978-1.ISBN978-3-030-74977-4.S2CID242148951.
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "1 Lacan: The name-of-the-father and the phallus".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 16–79.ISBN9780748636037.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.7.
[I]t isprimalrepression. Lacan names this repression with the Freudian word,Verwerfung,which he translates as 'forclusion', foreclosure.
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- ^Muller, John P. (1983). "Language, Psychosis, and the Subject in Lacan". In Smith, Joseph H.; Kerrigan, William (eds.).Interpreting Lacan.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 6. Yale University Press. p. 29.ISBN978-0-300-13581-7.
In the psychotic state, there is no distance or perspective on experience, there is [...] no true signifier-signified relationship. The symptom no longer signifies but is lived, a metaphor lived as real. Words do not mediate, do not refer to what is absent, but function in the real as objects (akin to Freud's analysis of schizophrenia as cathexis of theWortvorstellungin place of theSachvorstellung[1915, pp. 197-204]).
- ^Phillips, James (2000). "Peircean Reflections on Psychotic Discourse". In Muller, John; Brent, Joseph (eds.).Peirce, Semiotics, and Psychoanalysis.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 15. The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 20, 21.ISBN0-8018-6288-4.
Muller has explained the breakdown of normal language use in schizophrenia as a failure to use language in its mediating role between the subject and the unarticulated, unsymbolized world—what Lacan terms the Real. [...] indifferent things becomes an inexhaustible reservoir of gesture and meaning.
- ^Schwartz-Salant, Nathan (2018) [1989].The Borderline Personality: Vision and Healing.Chiron Publications. p. 99.ISBN978-1-63051-515-7.
In extreme instances, a relationship [to the Kleinian object can be] dominated by projective identification [and] can trigger psychotic episodes.
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Lacan knew, with genius, how psychosis reversed meaning, was ensnared inressentiment,and in ways opposed to morality, to reason. Here the signifier is immersed in a mystical body in which it takes its root, aninterioritythat is foreclosed.
- ^Brenner, Leon S. (2020). Neill, Calum; Hook, Derek (eds.).The Autistic Subject: On the Threshold of Language.The Palgrave Lacan Series. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 175, 251, 252.doi:10.1007/978-3-030-50715-2.ISBN978-3-030-50714-5.S2CID226498174.
In the case of the foreclosure of the rim, this negativity would entail the presence of the void in the real. Facing this dimension of lack brings autistic subjects to experience unbearable anxiety that they associate with a 'pure presence of death' (Laurent, 2012a, pp. 67-69, 84). [...] In order to surmount this terrible anxiety ortroumatisme,while having no access to symbolic castration, the autistic subject is disposed to achieve a 'castration in the real' (Laurent, 2012a, p. 67). [...] [T]he open synthetic Other [...] Some autistic individuals use these [synthetic, as opposed to 'organic'] intellectual models[...]to understand human behavior; others go as far as making their expertise into a profession[.]
- ^Rodriguez, Leonardo (2001). "Autism and Childhood Psychosis". In Glowinski, Huguette; Marks, Zita M.; Murphy, Sara (eds.).A Compendium of Lacanian Terms.Free Association Books. p. 27.ISBN1-85343-538-4.
By attempting to create a lack, the autistic subject attempts to create desire in the Other [...] the Leforts argue, the Other is reduced to an absence [...] (Lefort and Lefort, 1992, 1994).
- ^Fink, Bruce(1997).A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique.Harvard University Press. pp. 33, 165.ISBN0-674-13536-9.
What are symbolic relations? [...] [T]he Law [...or social]ideals[...] Symbolic relations include all the conflicts associated with what is commonly referred to in psychoanalysis as 'castration anxiety.' [...] [W]e see an[...]absence of the law in psychosis, and a definitive instatement of the law in neurosis (overcome only in fantasy), [and] in perversion the subject struggles to bring the law into being—in a word, to make the Other exist.
- ^Johnson, Barbara (1977)."The Frame of Reference: Poe, Lacan, Derrida".Yale French Studies(55/56): 457–505.doi:10.2307/2930445.JSTOR2930445.Retrieved2022-08-22.
The elimination of the narrator [not Dupin nor Poe] is a blatant and highly revealing result of the way 'psychoanalysis' does violence to literature in order to find its own schemes.
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- ^McWilliams, Nancy (2020) [2011]. "Schizoid Personalities".Psychoanalytic Diagnosis: Understanding Personality Structure in the Clinical Diagnosis(second ed.). The Guilford Press. p. 197.ISBN978-1-4625-4369-4.
I am often asked whether I see schizoid people as on the autistic spectrum, and I am not sure how to answer. [...] Perhaps schizoid psychology, especially in its high-functioning versions, can be reasonably viewed as at the healthy end of the autism spectrum.
- ^Laing, R. D. (1969) [1959]. "The embodied and unembodied self".The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness.Penguin Books. pp. 69, 73–74.ISBN978-0-14-013537-4.
The unembodied self becomes hyper-conscious. [...] The self in such a schizoid organization is usually more or less unembodied. It is experienced as a mental entity. It enters the condition called by Kierkegaard 'shutupness'.
- ^Staude, John Raphael (1976)."From Depth Psychology to Depth Sociology: Freud, Jung, and Lévi-Strauss".Theory and Society.3(3): 303–338.doi:10.1007/BF00159490.JSTOR656968.S2CID144353437.Retrieved2022-06-28.
The notion ofenantiodromia(or reversal of [the] direction of psychic energy) following the mid-life crisis, became the foundation stone of Jung's later theory of the development of the personality.
- ^Rodriguez, Leonardo (2001). "Autism and Childhood Psychosis". In Glowinski, Huguette; Marks, Zita M.; Murphy, Sara (eds.).A Compendium of Lacanian Terms.Free Association Books. pp. 26, 29–30.ISBN1-85343-538-4.
Autism shows an extreme position of the fusion of the subject in the holophrase S1[:master signifier]S2[:Other] [...] [T]he signifier itself acquires the weight of the real.
- ^Leeb, Claudia (2008)."Toward a Theoretical Outline of the Subject: The Centrality of Adorno and Lacan for Feminist Political Theorizing".Political Theory.36(3): 351–376.doi:10.1177/0090591708315142.JSTOR20452637.S2CID145201953.Retrieved2022-12-25.
There are only few attempts to read Adorno in conjunction with Lacan, and this is the first work that shows the affinities between the non-identical and the Real. [...] The Real and the non-identical are then consistent with Adorno's notion ofimmanent critique.In contrast to a 'transcendent critique' that critiques other theories from outside its own principles, immanent critique unfolds through internal contradictions, which it does not aim to erase. Adorno,Negative Dialectics,5.
- ^Spinoza,Benedict (1994). Curley, Edwin (ed.).A Spinoza Reader: the Ethcs and other works.Princeton University Press. p. 189.ISBN0-691-00067-0.
- ^Deleuze, Gilles (1988) [1970].Spinoza: Practical Philosophy.Translated by Hurley, Robert. City Lights Books. pp. 59, 62, 97.ISBN978-0-87286-218-0.
Consciousness.[... includes]Reflection[...]Derivation[...and]Correlation[.] [...]Desire.Cf. Consciousness, Power [...] all power is inseparable from a capacity for being affected
- ^Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy (1997)."Blankness as a Signifier".Critical Inquiry.24(1): 159–175.doi:10.1086/448870.JSTOR1344162.S2CID161209057.Retrieved2022-01-22.
The face signifies by refusing to signify. [...] [Deleuze's]Bergsonianism...predicated on the idea of the surface—the plane and the point—as opposed to the form—the shape and its interior. [...] The passage from Victorianhorror vacuito the present is that passage, the passage from potentiality to instantaneity. If in the former blankness was not a sign, but rather the place for the sign, in the latter it has become signally characteristic of the surface of all the signs which exclude it with recognizability and narrative[...][l]ying outside of art it would have to be art's subject.
- ^Deleuze, Gilles; Guattari, Félix (1987). "Year Zero: Faciality".A Thousand Plateaus.Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Translated by Massumi, Brian. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 168, 171, 174.ISBN978-1-85168-637-7.
Thefaceconstructs the wall that the signifier needs in order to bounce off of [...]The [Sartre]gazeis but secondary in relation to the gazeless eyes, to the black hole of faciality. The [Lacanian]mirroris but secondary in relation to the white wall of faciality[...] there is a face-landscape aggregate proper to the novel.
- ^Morrione, Deems D. (2006)."When Signifiers Collide: Doubling, Semiotic Black Holes, and the Destructive Remainder of the American Un/Real".Cultural Critique(63): 157–173.JSTOR4489250.Retrieved2022-01-22.
The semiotic black hole is[...]the destruction of the whole sign[...]that radically transforms thesocius,possessing a gravitational pull that has the power to massively reshape and remotivate [...] the semiotic black hole[...][leaves] little or no trace of its influence. [...] a collision of a fatal event and a perfect object[.] [...] Temporality is constant motion; to mark a point in time is to freeze only that moment, to celebrate impression and deny expression.
- ^Dolar, Mladen (1991).""I Shall Be with You on Your Wedding-Night": Lacan and the Uncanny ".October.58:5–23.doi:10.2307/778795.JSTOR778795.Retrieved2022-02-10.
The mechanism of uncanniness doesn't leave you any space for uncertainty and hesitation. If there is a structural hesitation, or floating, attached to it, it comes from the impossibility of espousing the terrible certainty—it would ultimately entail psychosis, an annihilation of subjectivity.
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- ^Bogue, Ronald (2003).Deleuze on Music, Painting and the Arts.Routledge. p. 90.ISBN978-0-415-96608-5.
- ^Dolar, Mladen (1991).""I Shall Be with You on Your Wedding-Night": Lacan and the Uncanny ".October.58:5–23.doi:10.2307/778795.JSTOR778795.Retrieved2022-02-10.
[T]he source of the uncanny is the reappearance of a part that was necessarily lost with the emergence of the subject—the intersection between the 'psychic' and the 'real,' the interior and the exterior, the 'word' and the 'object,' the symbol and the symbolized—the point where the real immediately coincides with the symbolic to be put into the service of the imaginary. [...] the uncanny is[...]the recuperation of the loss
- ^Parker,Ian (2011). "A clinic in the real:Relations".Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Revolutions in Subjectivity.Advancing Theory in Therapy. NY: Routledge. p. 190.ISBN978-0-415-45543-5.
As anempty signifier,'relation'[...][is found] between analysand and analyst, between infant and caregiver, between self and other, between individual and collective, between body and mind, between material and spiritual, between personal and political, and between clinic and world.
- ^Carroll,Noël (1990). "Why Horror: The Paradox of Horror:The Psychoanalysis of Horror".The Philosophy of HorrororParadoxes of the Heart.New York, NY: Routledge. p. 175.ISBN0-415-90145-6.
To experience the uncanny, then, is to experience something that is known, but something the knowledge of which has been hidden or repressed. Freud takes this to be a necessary, though not a sufficient condition, of the experience of the uncanny: '...the uncanny is nothing else than a hidden, familiar thing that has undergone repression and then emerged from it, and that everything that is uncanny fulfills this condition.'
- ^Guattari, Félix (2011) [1979]. "Introduction: Logos or Abstract Machines?".The Machinic Unconscious: Essays in Schizoanalysis.Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents Series. Translated by Adkins, Taylor. Semiotext(e). p. 14.ISBN978-1-58435-088-0.
- ^Guattari, Félix (2006) [1992].Chaosmosis: an ethico-aesthetic paradigm.Translated by Bains, Paul; Pefanis, Julian. Power Publications. p. 9.ISBN978-0-909952-25-9.
The term 'collective' should be understood in the sense of a multiplicity[.]
- ^Lefebvre,Henri (2002) [1974].The Production of Space.Translated by Nicholson-Smith, Donald. Blackwell Publishing. p. 71.ISBN0-631-18177-6.
Production in the Marxist sense transcends the philosophical opposition between 'subject' and 'object', along with all the relationships constructed by the philosophers on the basis of that opposition. [...] All productive activity is defined less by invariable or constant factors than by the incessant to-and-fro between temporality (succession, concatenation) and spatiality (simultaneity, synchronicity).
- ^Buchanan, Ian (2021).The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis.Edinburgh University Press. p. 195.ISBN978-1-4744-8789-4.
The full body without organs is the soul animated by desire.
- ^Świątkowski, Piotrek (2015). "Schizoid position".Deleuze and Desire: Analysis of The Logic of Sense.Vol. 14. Leuven University Press. pp. 29–56.doi:10.2307/j.ctt180r0rj.6.ISBN9789462700314.JSTORj.ctt180r0rj.6.
The body without organs is a complete and uncorrupted body. It is a body without a mouth and without an anus, a body that has given up all introjections and projections.
- ^Penney, James (2014). "Capitalism and Schizoanalysis".After Queer Theory: The Limits of Sexual Politics.Pluto Press. pp. 111–144.doi:10.2307/j.ctt183p7nq.8.ISBN9780745333786.JSTORj.ctt183p7nq.8.
Against this [Lacanian] emphasis [of lack via Freud], Deleuze and Guattari offer an alternative account of desire as self-generating production.
- ^Brown, William; Fleming, David H. (2011)."Deterritorialisation and Schizoanalysis in David Fincher's 'Fight Club'".Deleuze Studies.5(2, Special Issue on Schizoanalysis and Visual Culture): 275–299.doi:10.3366/dls.2011.0021.JSTOR45331462.Retrieved2022-09-08.
InAnti-Oedipus(1983), Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari advanced a radical conception of desire, no longer shackled to absence and lack, but based on a productive process of presence and becoming. [...] one in which the conventional distinctions between inside and outside, actual and virtual, and even between self and other significantly blur.
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- ^Deleuze, Gilles; Guattari, Félix (1987). "On Several Regimes of Signs".A Thousand Plateaus.Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Translated by Massumi, Brian. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 136–142.ISBN978-1-85168-637-7.
transformations that blow apart semiotics systems or regimes of signs on the plane of consistency of a positive absolute deterritorialization are calleddiagrammatic.[...] An abstract machine [...] isdiagrammatic[...] It operates bymatter,not by substance.; byfunction,not by form. [...] The abstract machine is pure Matter-Function [...] A diagram has neither substance nor form, neither content nor expression. [...] Writing now functions on the same level as the real, and the real materially writes. [...] This Real-Abstract is totally different from the fictitious abstraction of a supposedly pure machine of expression. It is Absolute, but one that is neither undifferentiated nor transcendent. [...] there are no regimes of signs on the diagrammatic level, or on the plane of consistency, because form of expression is no longer really distinct from form of content.
- ^Hurst, Andrea (2008). "3 Derrida: Différance and the 'Plural Logic of the Aporia'".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 72–112.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.8.
- ^de Luque, Juan Luis Pérez (August 2013). Joshi, S.T. (ed.). "Lovecraft, Reality, and the Real: A Žižekian Approach".Lovecraft Annual(7). Hippocampus Press: 187–203.ISSN1935-6102.JSTOR26868476.
Žižek...divides the Real into three different categories, which coincide with the imaginary/real/symbolic division: 'There are thus THREE modalities[...]the 'real Real'[...]'symbolic Real'[...]'imaginary Real'[...]On Belief 82
- ^Lacan, Jacques(2006) [1966]. "On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis".Écrits.Translated byFink, Bruce.W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 458–459, 462.ISBN978-0-393-32925-4.
This [L] Schema signifies that the condition of the subject, S (neurosis or psychosis), depends on what unfolds in the Other, A. [...]a,his objects;a', his ego, that is, his form as reflected in his objects; and A, the locus from which the question of his existence may arise for him. [...] The R schema, which represents the lines that condition theperceptum—in other words, the object—insofar as these lines circumscribe the field of reality rather than merely depending on it.
- ^Guattari, Félix (2006) [1992].Chaosmosis: an ethico-aesthetic paradigm.Translated by Bains, Paul; Pefanis, Julian. Power Publications. p. 25.ISBN978-0-909952-25-9.
It is in this zone of intersection that subject and object fuse and establish their foundations. [...] one can say that psychoanalysis is born at this point of object-subject fusion that we see at work in suggestion, hypnosis, and hysteria.
- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "3 The real and the development of the imaginary".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 148–201.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.9.
'The real, which is to say impossible, Other of the Other' (SXXIII: 64) [...] [T]he phallus was already recognized as thehingeof the real and the symbolic. The phallus can occupy this position precisely because it has both a symbolic and an imaginary aspect. It is a product of the real, but it is an imageofthe symbolic.
- ^Žižek, Slavoj(2007). "Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer ofAlien".How to Read Lacan.W. W. Norton & Company. p. 66.ISBN978-0-393-32955-1.
[T]he scientific Real, the real of a formula that expresses nature's automatic and senseless functioning [...] [I]f we start with the Symbolic[...]we get language deprived of the wealth of its human sense, transformed into the Real of a meaningless formula[.]
- ^abLacan, Jacques(2006) [1966]. "The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis".Écrits.Translated byFink, Bruce.W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 255, 258, 261, 262, 264.ISBN978-0-393-32925-4.
[T]he analyst's abstention—his refusal to respond[...][m]ore exactly, the junction between the symbolic and the real lies in this negativity[.] [...] Thus we see another moment...in which the symbolic and the real come together: in the function of time. [...] Punctuation, once inserted, establishes the meaning[.] [...] [D]eath instinct [...] [or] repetition automatism [...] This limit is death...the subject being understood as defined by his historicity. [...] the past which manifests itself in an inverted form in repetition. [...] [that] corresponds rather to the relational group that symbolic logic designates topologically as a ring.
- ^Vergote, Antoine (1983). "From Freud's 'Other Scene' to Lacan's 'Other'".In Smith, Joseph H.; Kerrigan, William (eds.).Interpreting Lacan.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 6. Yale University Press. p. 202.ISBN978-0-300-13581-7.
No concatenation of signifiers ever really grasps exhaustively the being of an object. Thus, all discourse is metonymic. It refers us from signifier to signifier, in an endless path in which the reference to the object is abolished. The real is thus 'the impossible.'
- ^Žižek, Slavoj(1989). "Part II: Lack in the Other;Che Vuoi?".The Sublime Object of Ideology.Verso. pp. 103, 108.ISBN978-1-84467-300-1.
Historical reality is of course always symbolized [...] the horizon of an ideological field of meaning, is supported by some 'pure' ['Lacanian master-signifier'], [a] meaningless 'signifier without the signified'.
- ^Heidegger, Martin(2008) [1962].Being and Time.Translated by Macquarrie, John; Robinson, Edward. Harper Perennial Modern Thought. p. 41.ISBN978-0-06-157559-4.
Dasein 'is' its past in the way ofitsown Being, which, to put it roughly, 'historicizes' out of its future on each occasion. [...] Dasein can discover tradition, preserve it, and study it explicitly.
- ^Casey, Edward S.;Woody, J. Melvin (1983). "Hegel, Heidegger, Lacan: The Dialectic of Desire". In Smith, Joseph H.; Kerrigan, William (eds.).Interpreting Lacan.Psychiatry and the Humanities. Vol. 6. Yale University Press. p. 78.ISBN978-0-300-13581-7.
Hegel insists that the individual who fails to recognize his own historicity and sets himself up as a pure, autonomous ego, independent of the customs and culture of his society and era, is a stranger to himself.
- ^abBoothby, Richard (2001).Freud as Philosopher: metapsychology after Lacan.Routledge. p. 271.ISBN0-415-92590-8.
The differentiating action of [semiotic] demotivation is what Lacan refers to as symbolic castration. The task of castration[...]is to introduce a fundamental shift in the subject's relation to the image, that is, to relate the positional moment of the image to the dispositional horizon of a symbolic system.
- ^Guattari, Félix(2006) [1992].Chaosmosis: an ethico-aesthetic paradigm.Translated by Bains, Paul; Pefanis, Julian. Power Publications. p. 24.ISBN978-0-909952-25-9.
Expressive, linguistic and non-linguistic substances install themselves at the junction of discursive chains (belonging to a finite, performed world, the world of the Lacanian Other)[.]
- ^Lacan, Jacques(2006) [1966]. "The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire".Écrits.Translated byFink, Bruce.W. W. Norton & Company. p. 675.ISBN978-0-393-32925-4.
[A] permanent revisionism, so to speak, in which what is disturbing about truth is constantly being reabsorbed, truth being in itself but what is lacking in the realization of knowledge. [...] This is a real crisis, in which the imaginary is eliminated [castration] in engendering a new symbolic form[.]
- ^Stavrakakis, Yannis (2006). "Jacques Lacan (1901-81)". In Simons, Jon (ed.).Contemporary Critical Theorists: From Lacan to Said.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 18–33.ISBN9780748617197.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctvxcrrt8.6.
('quilting points' or 'nodal points' in Laclau and Mouffe's rendering). Thepoint de capitonis the signifier which 'stops the otherwise endless movement (glissement) of the signification'.
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- ^Lewis, Michael (2008). "3 The real and the development of the imaginary".Derrida and Lacan: Another Writing.Edinburgh University Press. pp. 148–201.JSTOR10.3366/j.ctt1r2cj3.9.
The real-of-the-symbolic as the infinity of traces is domesticated and rendered intelligibleasthe real-of-the-imaginary.The real-of-the-imaginary is the objecta,the cause of desire, depicted in the fantasy, which thus makes the absolutely unreachable infinity seem like something that could one day be attained, and that isdesirable.The infinity of the trace is given a positive (imaginary) form as the regulative ideal that is the object ofdesire.The infinity of the real is rendered accessible to us as the infinite striving of desire. [...] ['T]he object of desire has no image' (SIX: 30/5/62).
- ^Žižek, Slavoj(2007). "Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer ofAlien".How to Read Lacan.W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 62, 66.ISBN978-0-393-32955-1.
[I]ts status is purely phantasmatic [...] [T]he terrifying formless Thing[...][I]f we start with the Imaginary (the mirror-confrontation of Freud and Irma), we get the Real in its imaginary dimension, the horrifying primordial image that cancels the [dream] imagery itself[.]
- ^Fink, Bruce(1997).A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique.Harvard University Press. pp. 38–39, 248.ISBN0-674-13536-9.
When the analyst is viewed as an other like the analysand, the analyst can be considered an imaginary object or other for the analysand (Lacan writes this asa' [...] Lacan puts it in italics to indicate that it is imaginary. In contrast toa', the subject's own ego is denoted bya.) [...] When the analyst is viewed as the cause of the analysand's unconscious formations, the analyst can be considered a 'real' object for the analysand [...or] objecta[.] [...] alter-ego, [is]a' [.]
- ^Newlin, James (2013)."The Touch of the Real in New Historicism and Psychoanalysis".SubStance.42(1): 82–101.doi:10.1353/sub.2013.0013.JSTOR41818955.S2CID170198483.Retrieved2022-04-17.
For Lacan, the uncanny is 'linked not...to all sorts of irruptions from the unconscious, but rather to an imbalance that arises in the fantasy when it decomposes' ('Desire' 22)[.]
- ^Suvin, Darko (1987)."Approach to Topoanalysis and to the Paradigmatics of Dramaturgic Space".Poetics Today.8(2): 311–334.doi:10.2307/1773040.JSTOR1773040.Retrieved2022-05-25.
Fundamentally, any psychological image is a complex and autonomous reproduction 'not of the object itself but of the adjustments proper to the action which incides on the object'; in particular, 'the intuition of space is not a reading of the objects' properties but right from the start it is clearly an action exerted on them' (Piaget & Inhelder 1972:342 and 523).
- ^Hurst, Andrea (2008). "7 The Lacanian Real".Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis.Fordham University Press. pp. 213–236.ISBN9780823228744.JSTORj.ctt13x0dc2.14.
[T]he dream imagery (as the counterpart of conscious representation according to the causality of theautomaton), puts together 'what happened' (as 'event,' 'trauma,' 'knot,' 'navel,' or the Real) according to the causality of thetuché,as the cause of the repetition compulsion.
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The Thing is not the object (the vase) but the emptiness that is represented by the object in order for it to function in symbolic discourse. [...] This emptiness is a hole that marks the Real.
- ^Wittgenstein, Ludwig(1999) [1922].Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.Translated by Ogden, C.K. Dover Publications. pp. 38, 50, 74.ISBN978-0-486-40445-5.
3.221 Objects[,] I can onlyname.Signs represent them. I can only speakofthem. [...] 4.0621 [that] the signs 'p' and '~p' can say the same thing is important, for it shows that the sign '~' corresponds to nothing in [ontic] reality. [...] 5.44 And if there was an object called '~', then '~~p' would have to say something other than 'p'.
- ^Fink, Bruce(1995). "There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship".The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance.Princeton University Press. p. 102.ISBN978-0-691-01589-7.
[O]bject (a) [...] as real, does not signify anything: itisthe Other's desire, it is desirousness as real, not signified.
- ^Žižek, Slavoj(2007). "Troubles with the Real: Lacan as a Viewer ofAlien".How to Read Lacan.W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 72, 73.ISBN978-0-393-32955-1.
[I]t is not an external thing that resists being caught in the symbolic network, but the fissure within the symbolic network itself. [...] [F]or Lacan the Real—the Thing—is not so much the inert presence that curves symbolic space (introducing gaps and inconsistencies in it), but, rather, an effect of these gaps and inconsistencies.
- ^Boothby, Richard (2001).Freud as Philosopher: metapsychology after Lacan.Routledge. pp. 49, 50.ISBN0-415-92590-8.
In 'The Thing,' Heidegger develops an example[...]the earthen jug. [...] In fashioning the jug, the potter forms the clay around a void. It is this central void that makes the jug useful. [...] All emergence of truth thus occurs against a background of untruth.Alethiapresupposes a priorlethe,or primordial forgetting.
- ^Fink, Bruce(1997).A Clinical Introduction to Lacanian Psychoanalysis: Theory and Technique.Harvard University Press. p. 45.ISBN0-674-13536-9.
[T]he analyst being identified as the one who knows (the full vase) whereas the analysand (the empty vase) knows nothing but what the analyst communicates.
- ^Camus, Albert(1983) [1955].The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays.Translated by O'Brien, Justin. Vintage International. pp. 113–114.ISBN978-0-679-73373-7.
To work and create 'for nothing,' to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries—this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on the one hand and magnifying on the other, is the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors.
- ^Kristeva, Julia(2002) [1989]. "Black Sun". In Oliver, Kelly (ed.).The Portable Kristeva.European Perspectives (updated ed.). Columbia University Press. p. 187.ISBN0-231-12629-8.
[T]he Thing is an imagined sun, bright and black at the same time. 'It is a well-known fact that one never sees the sun in a dream[.'] [...] The melancholy Thing interrupts desiring metonymy, just as it prevents working out the loss within the psyche.
- ^Deleuze, Gilles;Guattari, Félix(1987). "Becoming-Intense, Becoming-Animal, Becoming-Imperceptible...".A Thousand Plateaus.Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Translated byMassumi, Brian.University of Minnesota Press. p. 245.ISBN978-1-85168-637-7.
Lovecraft applies the term 'Outsider' to this thing or entity, the Thing, which arrives and passes at the edge, which is linear yet multiple, 'teeming, seething, swelling, foaming, spreading like an infectious disease, this nameless horror.' [...] a phenomenon of bordering.
- ^Lacan, Jacques(2006) [1966]. "On a Question Prior to Any Possible Treatment of Psychosis".Écrits.Translated byFink, Bruce.W. W. Norton & Company. p. 460.ISBN978-0-393-32925-4.
The [Jungian]anima,like a rubber band, snaps back to theanimusand theanimusto the animal, who between S andamaintains considerably closer 'foreign relations' with itsUmweltthan our own[.]
- ^Becker, Ernest(1973).The Denial of Death.Free Press Paperbacks. pp. 145, 146, 148.ISBN978-0-684-83240-1.
In Rank's words the transference object comes to represent for the individual 'the great biological forces of nature, to which the ego binds itself emotionally and which then form the essence of the human and his fate.' [...] The object becomes his locus of safe operation. [...] Angyal could well say that transference is...the experience of the other as one'swhole world[...] this fear of looking the transference object full in the face is...the fear of the reality of intense focalization of natural wonder and power; the fear of being overwhelmed by the truth of the universe as it exists, as that truth is focused in one human face.
- ^Rank, Otto(1932).Art and Artist: Creative Urge and Personality Development.Translated by Atkinson, Charles Francis. W. W. Norton & Company. pp. 104, 105, 106, 110, 370.ISBN978-0-393-30574-6.
Plato's definition[...]of art—which is really but the reflection of his whole picture of life; for does he not explain daily life as the shadow of an actual reality, which he calls the Idea, and does not art therefore naturally represent for him only a shadow of that shadow, a copy of a copy? [...] Ideas, which leads him to interpret the soul's intuition of self-beauty[...]as the recollection of its prenatal existence[...]the prenatal—that is, a supernatural—state [...] aplane of illusion,which has its setting and its pattern in our own soul-life. [...] thefeeling of onenesswith the soul living in the work of art, a greater and higher entity. [...] This ideologization of inner conflicts manifests itself in the individual in a form which psycho-analysis has called that of 'identification'[.]
- ^Boothby, Richard (2001).Freud as Philosopher: metapsychology after Lacan.Routledge. p. 278.ISBN0-415-92590-8.
The art object, says Lacan in his definition of sublimation, 'raises the object to the dignity of the Thing.'
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[T]he real-of-the-symbolic is theletter,while the real-of-the-imaginary is theobjet petit a
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[T]he fisherman's drama may be seen as a drama of the mirror stage in reverse, a regression from the symbolic phase to the imaginary. [...] instead of looking into the mirror, the fisherman looks around it at its silver backing, perceiving the mechanism by which the illusion of his self is created. [...] the return of mythical and imaginative knowledge. [...] It is a mystical quest for the Other[.] [...] The Maelstrom is the object of the fisherman's quest, but it is also a death object and the locus of the eternal slippage of meaning. [...] [it] cannot be reduced to a signified, to a referent.
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Further reading
[edit]- Burgess, J. Peter (2017)."The Real at the Origin of Sovereignty".Political Psychology.38(4): 653–668.doi:10.1111/pops.12422.JSTOR45094380.Retrieved2022-04-18.
- Jung, Carl(2009) [1930].The Red Book: Liber Novus.Translated by Kyburz, Mark; Peck, John; Shamdasani, Sonu. W. W. Norton & Company.ISBN978-0-393-06567-1.
- Bachelard, Gaston(2014) [1958].The Poetics of Space.Translated by Jolas, Maria. Penguin Classics.ISBN978-0-14-310752-1.
- Scott, Maria (2008)."Lacan's 'Of the Gaze as Objet Petit a' as Anamorphic Discourse".Paragraph.31(3): 327–343.doi:10.3366/E0264833408000308.JSTOR43151894.S2CID146191352.Retrieved2022-11-18.
- Swales, Stephanie (2010)."Psychosis or Neurosis? Lacanian Diagnosis and Its Relevance for Group Psychotherapists".Group.34(2): 129–143.doi:10.1353/grp.2010.0030.JSTOR41719272.S2CID247620507.Retrieved2022-12-12.
- Bell, Lucy (2011)."Articulations of the Real: from Lacan to Badiou".Paragraph.34(1): 105–120.doi:10.3366/para.2011.0008.ISSN1750-0176.JSTOR43263773.Retrieved2023-01-16.
- Lerner, Pablo (2024) [2023].Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis: Rings and Voids.The Lines of the Symbolic in Psychoanalysis Series.doi:10.4324/9781003278740.ISBN978-1-03-224477-8.