Bartleby Politics

Parallax View

frog embracing bottle of beer

‘objectively subjective’ underlying fantasy which the two subjects are never able to assume

A certain excess which was, as it were, kept under check in previous history, perceived as a local perversion, a limited deviation, is in capitalism elevated into the very principle of social life, in the speculative movement of money begetting more money, of a system which can survive only by constantly revolutionizing its own conditions — that is to say, in whichthe thing can survive only as its own excess, constantly exceeding its own “normal” constraints. 297

The Analyst Discourse and the emergence of revolutionary-emancipatory subjectivity
Analyst Discourse

revolutionary agent addresses the subject from the position of knowledge which occupies the place of truth (that is, which intervenes at the “symptomal torsion” of the subject’s constellation), and the goal is to isolate, get rid of, the Master-Signifier which structured the subject’s (ideologico-political) unconscious.

 

Jacques-Alain Miller:  Our civilization fits the discourse of the Analyst. the “agent” is a surplus enjoyment, the superego injunction to enjoy, addresses (the divided subject) who is put to work in order to live up to this injunction.  If ever there was a superego injunction, it is the famous Oriental wisdom, “Don’t think, just do it.” The “truth” of this social link is S2, scientific-expert knowledge in its different guises, and the goal is to generate S1, the self-mastery of the subject — that is to enable the subject to “cope with” the stress of the call to enjoyment (through self-help manuals and so on)…

Žižek replies:

imbalance between Ego and jouissance, imbalance between pleasure and foreign body of jouissance, pose a threat to the possession of the objet

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