Subjectivity and Otherness A Philosophical Reading of Lacan
At the risk of stating the obvious, it is important to insist on the fact that Lacan adapts Jakobson’s laws of concrete consciou ...
course continuously presupposes—into the actual reality of the unconscious.Unconscious metonymy has therefore to be referred to ...
the process of displacement in the dream-work by resorting to grammar: after all, this is why a dream seems so “unreal.” Let us ...
effects of signification which, one could suggest, “give form” to the unconscious by turning it into consciousness: this is poss ...
My stress on the dependence of new (neologistic) signification on repression and the return of the repressed makes it necessary ...
are not yet completely structured.^74 Primal repression is effectively repressed only retroactively through the resolution of th ...
self-consciousness. If, on the contrary, one defends the logical priority of the un- conscious over the letter, one inevitably f ...
this case, archaeologists would have been mistaken in inferring the existence of a signification where there was only a randomly ...
chapter 3 Oedipus as a Metaphor ...
3.1 Introduction: Entering the Symbolic Lacan’s convoluted account of the Oedipus complex is based on three clear-cut a priori a ...
complex declines); in other words, he may be able actively to enter the Other qua language despite his inability to enter the Ot ...
The retroactive character of pre-Oedipal symbolic processes is equally valid for pre-Oedipal unconsciouslife. Freud always insis ...
basis of which the Oedipus complex is investigated can occur only in a “given succession.”^5 More precisely, I shall proceed as ...
Oedipus complex is completely resolved when the child, irrespective of sex, iden- tifies symbolically with the father, and thus ...
always satisfied by his mother, and thus unable to grasp the object as object,^15 he nevertheless experiences the alternating pr ...
( 2 ) The object can now be considered as an object of satisfaction in twodifferent ways: as real, it satisfies the child’s biol ...
is here isolated only by way of abstraction; it interests us only because it is suc- cessively resumed in the quartet which is c ...
At this stage, therefore, one fundamental question should be asked: whendoes the child realize that “it is not he who is loved b ...
a gigantic phallic Gestalt/image] and what he can give [his little real penis].”^38 It should by now be clear how the competitio ...
manages to superimpose these two dimensions upon one another: he conjectures that he is the exclusiveobject of the Desire-of-the ...
«
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
»
Free download pdf