{"id":10082,"date":"2012-12-10T16:52:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=10082"},"modified":"2013-08-14T16:21:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T21:21:22","slug":"neighbour-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/12\/10\/neighbour-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbour Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u017d\u017eek. Living in End Times<\/em> New York: Verso, 2010.<\/p>\n

\u017di\u017eek mentions neighbour in this talk here<\/a><\/p>\n

face conceals the horror of the Neighbor-Thing<\/span>. So it isn’t the Levinasian “that Otherness from which the unconditional ethical call emanates” no it isn’t that for \u017d. \u00a0Semblance: is french term for just the ordinary Joe. \u00a0The face<\/strong> makes the Neighbor <\/span>into a semblance with whom we can identify and empathize.<\/p>\n

So why does the covered face cause anxiety for the rest of us?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“because it confronts us directly with the abyss of the Other-Thing<\/span>, with the Neighbor<\/span> in its uncanny dimension. The very covering-up of the face obliterates a protective shield, so that the Other-Thing<\/span> stares at us directly (recall that the burqa has a narrow slit for the eyes; we don’t see the eyes, but we know there is a gaze there)”. 2<\/p>\n

[\u017d relates Salome’s dance, wonders if she could go further and take off the skin of her face itself so that we see smooth burqa-like surface with slit for gaze] “Love thy neighbor!”<\/strong> means, at its most radical, precisely the impossible \u2014 real love for this de-subjetivized subject<\/span>, for this monstrous dark blot cut with a slit\/gaze.<\/p>\n

This is why, in psychoanalytic treatment, the patient does not sit face to face with the analyst: they both stare at a third point, since it is only this suspension of the face which opens up the space for the proper dimension of the<\/strong> Neighbor-Thing<\/span>. 3<\/p>\n

politics is the unconcsious:<\/em> here the unconscious is elevated into the big Other<\/span>: it is posited as a substance which really dominates and regulates political activity “… true driving force of our political activity … unconscious libidinal activity.”<\/p>\n

the unconscious is politics: <\/span>here the big Other<\/span> itself loses its substantial character, it is no longer “THE Unconscious,”<\/strong> for it transforms into a fragile inconsistent field overdetermined by political struggles.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u017d\u017eek. Living in End Times New York: Verso, 2010. \u017di\u017eek mentions neighbour in this talk here face conceals the horror of the Neighbor-Thing. So it isn’t the Levinasian “that Otherness from which the unconditional ethical call emanates” no it isn’t that for \u017d. \u00a0Semblance: is french term for just the ordinary Joe. \u00a0The face makes … Continue reading “Neighbour Thing”<\/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":[76,15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sub-destitute","category-subjectivity","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082","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=10082"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11653,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10082\/revisions\/11653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}