{"id":10060,"date":"2012-12-07T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=10060"},"modified":"2012-12-07T13:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T18:59:00","slug":"enunciated-content-and-subjective-position-of-enunciation-lying-in-guise-of-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/12\/07\/enunciated-content-and-subjective-position-of-enunciation-lying-in-guise-of-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"enunciated content and subjective position of enunciation lying in guise of truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another case of lying in the guise of truth: a corrupt philosophy professor from my youth in Slovenia openly admitted his conformism, saying with a disarming smile: &#8220;I am scum, I know it, so what? &#8220;<strong>The lie of\u00a0 such an admission resides in the gap between the enunciated content and its subjective position of enunciation<\/strong>: by way of admitting his corruption openly, did he not adopt an honest position which somehow redeemed him from corruption? Not at all: the appropriate response is to paraphrase the old Jewish joke quoted by Freud: &#8220;If\u00a0 you are really scum, why\u00a0 are you telling us that you are scum?&#8221; Or, a more aggressive version: &#8220;You say that you are scum, but this will not fool us \u2014 you really are scum!&#8221; \u2014 in short: &#8220;Don&#8217;t lie to us by telling the truth \u2014 you are scum!&#8221;\u00a0 521 note 25<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another case of lying in the guise of truth: a corrupt philosophy professor from my youth in Slovenia openly admitted his conformism, saying with a disarming smile: &#8220;I am scum, I know it, so what? &#8220;The lie of\u00a0 such an admission resides in the gap between the enunciated content and its subjective position of enunciation: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/12\/07\/enunciated-content-and-subjective-position-of-enunciation-lying-in-guise-of-truth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;enunciated content and subjective position of enunciation lying in guise of truth&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[116],"class_list":["post-10060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek","tag-ltn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10062,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10060\/revisions\/10062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}