Subjectivity and Otherness A Philosophical Reading of Lacan

politicization of jouissanceis compatible with Lacanian psychoanalysis only if the

fundamental fantasy it sets up is radically new:in other words, a Master-Signifier is

progressive and consequently worth fighting for only if it closely follows the tem-

porary assumption of the real lack in the Symbolic, jouis-sans.At the risk of over-

simplifying an intricate issue which is only introduced here, I would go so far as

to suggest that any possible political elaboration of the extreme ethics of the ex ni-

hiloshould rely on the equation between what is new and what is good.^293

the subject of the fantasy... and beyond