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− | Lacan identifies four viables types of social bond which regulate intersubjective relations. Articulations of the symbolic network, the Four Discourses get | + | [[Lacan]] identifies four viables types of social bond which regulate [[intersubjective]] relations. Articulations of the [[symbolic]] network, the [[Four Discourses]] get [[structure]]d throughout dramatic reflection: <i>[[plus-de-jouir]]</i> and <i>[[jouisance]]</i>; the [[master]] and the [[slave]]; [[Marx]]; [[knowledge]], [[truth]] and <i>[[jouissance]]</i>; the [[Father]] of <i>[[Totem and Taboo]]</i> who is all love - or all <i>jouissance</i> - and whose murder generates the [[love]] of the [[Dead]] [[Father]], a [[father]] to whom [[Lacan]] opposes both the [[Father]] presiding over the first idealization - the one deserving [[love]] - and the [[Father]] who enters the [[discourse of the Master]] and is thereby [[castrate]]d <i>ab initio</i>. For [[Lacan]] "the [[death]] of the [[father]] is the key to supreme <i>[[jouissance]]</i>, later identified with the [[mother]] as [[aim]] of [[incest]]." [[Psychoanalyis]] "is not constructed on the proposition 'to sleep with the mother' but on the death of the father as primal <i>[[jouissance]]</i>." The [[real]] [[father]] is not the father of biological reality, be he who upholds "the Real as impossible." From the [[Oedipus complex]] [[Lacan]] only saves the [[paternal metaphor]] and the [[Name-of-the-Father]] which "is positioned where [[knowledge]] acts as [[truth]]. [[Psychoanalysis]] consolidates the [[law]]."<br> |
− | The novelty in this seminar is the return of the hysteric, with <i>Dora</i> and <i>la Belle Bouche erre</i> - the Beautiful Mouth wanders - an allusion to the dream of the beautiful butcher's wife analyzed by Freud and carried on in "The direction of the treatment and the principles of power" (<i>Écrits: A Selection</i>). Three questions: the rapport between <i>jouissance</i> and the desire for unfulfilled desire; the hysteric who makes man - <i>fait l'homme</i> or the Master - she constructs him as "a man prompted by the desire to know"; a new conception of the cure as a "hystericizaton of dicourse," which the analyst introduces at the structural level. This leaves untouched hysteria as attributed to woman - the only discourse where sexual difference comes openly into play. Castration is "the deprivation of woman," insofar as "she would fulfill herself in the smallest signifier." Woman is absent from the field of the signifier.<br> | + | The novelty in this [[seminar]] is the return of the [[hysteric]], with <i>Dora</i> and <i>la Belle Bouche erre</i> - the Beautiful Mouth wanders - an allusion to the dream of the beautiful butcher's wife analyzed by [[Freud]] and carried on in "The direction of the treatment and the principles of power" (<i>[[Écrits: A Selection]]</i>). Three questions: the rapport between <i>[[jouissance]]</i> and the [[desire]] for unfulfilled desire; the [[hysteric]] who makes man - <i>fait l'homme</i> or the [[Master]] - she constructs him as "a man prompted by the desire to know"; a new conception of the cure as a "hystericizaton of dicourse," which the [[analyst]] introduces at the structural level. This leaves untouched hysteria as attributed to woman - the only [[discourse]] where [[sexual difference]] comes openly into play. [[Castration]] is "the deprivation of [[woman]]," insofar as "she would fulfill herself in the smallest [[signifier]]." [[Woman]] is [[absent]] from the field of the [[signifier]].<br> |
− | As to the | + | As to the [[matheme]]s "a fundamental starting relation" functions as a postulate: |
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− | S1 refers to "the marked circle of the field of the Other," it is the Master-Signifier. S2 is the "battery of signifiers, already there" at the place where "one wants to determine the status of a discourse as status of statement," that is knowledge - <i>savoir</i>. S1 comes into play in a signifying battery conforming the network of knowledge. <img src="lacansem1b1.gif" valign="bottom" height="11" width="12"> is the subject, marked by the unbroken line - <i>trait unaire</i> - which represents it and is different from the living individual who is not the locus of this subject. Add the <i>objet a</i>, the object-waste or the loss of the object that ocurred when the originary division of the subject took place - the object that is the cause of desire: the <i>plus-de-jouir</i>.</font><p> | + | S1 refers to "the marked circle of the field of the Other," it is the [[Master-Signifier]]. S2 is the "battery of signifiers, already there" at the place where "one wants to determine the status of a discourse as status of statement," that is knowledge - <i>savoir</i>. S1 comes into play in a signifying battery conforming the network of knowledge. <img src="lacansem1b1.gif" valign="bottom" height="11" width="12"> is the subject, marked by the unbroken line - <i>trait unaire</i> - which represents it and is different from the living individual who is not the locus of this subject. Add the <i>objet a</i>, the object-waste or the loss of the object that ocurred when the originary division of the subject took place - the object that is the cause of desire: the <i>plus-de-jouir</i>.</font><p> |
Discourse of the Master: | Discourse of the Master: | ||
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− | It is the basic discourse from which the other three derive. The dominant position is occupied by the master signifier, S1, which represents the subject, S, for all other signifiers: S2. In this signifying operation there is a surplus: <i>objet a</i>. All attempts at totalisation are doomed to fail. This discourse masks the division of the subject, it illustrates the structure of the dialectic of the master and the slave. The master, S1, is the agent who puts the slave, S2, to work: the result is a surplus, <i>objet a</i>, that the master struggles to appropriate. | + | It is the basic discourse from which the other three derive. The dominant position is occupied by the [[master signifier]], S1, which represents the [[subject]], S, for all other signifiers: S2. In this signifying operation there is a surplus: <i>objet a</i>. All attempts at totalisation are doomed to fail. This [[discourse]] masks the [[division]] of the [[subject]], it illustrates the [[structure]] of the [[dialectic]] of the [[master]] and the [[slave]]. The master, S1, is the agent who puts the slave, S2, to work: the result is a surplus, <i>objet a</i>, that the [[master]] struggles to appropriate. |
− | Discourse of the University: | + | [[Discourse of the University]]: |
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