{"id":11727,"date":"2013-08-17T16:27:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=11727"},"modified":"2013-08-17T20:28:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T01:28:47","slug":"mcgowan-death-drive-subject-of-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/08\/17\/mcgowan-death-drive-subject-of-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"mcgowan death drive subject of loss 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McGowan, Todd. <em>Enjoying What We Don\u2019t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis<\/em>. 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; psychoanalysis in fact represents a third way. Rather than championing life against death or insisting on death as the necessary limit on life, it focuses on the <strong>death that remains internal to life<\/strong>. This death within life is what Freud calls the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-size: 11pt;\">death drive<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Viewed from the perspective of the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-size: 11pt;\">death drive<\/span>, the uniqueness of a subject does not derive from the divine &#8230; that uniqueness is the product of a<strong> primordial act of<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff; font-size: 11pt;\">loss<\/span> through which the subject comes into being. <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The subject emerges through the sacrifice of a<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">privileged object<\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">that the act of sacrifice itself creates<\/span><\/strong>. This act is correlative to the acquisition of a name, which allows the subject to enter into a world of meaning and signification \u2013 a world that brings with it an indirect relation with the world of objects and with its privileged object.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With the acquisition of a name, the subject becomes a<\/strong> <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff; font-size: 11pt;\">subject of loss<\/span>.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The entire existence of the subject becomes oriented around its lost object, even though this object only comes into being through the subject\u2019s act of ceding it<\/strong>. 236<\/p>\n<p>This death that founds the subject creates in it a drive to return to the moment of loss itself because <strong>the originary loss creates both the subject and the subject\u2019s privileged object<\/strong>. The only enjoyment that the subject experiences derives not from life nor from death but from the <strong>death-in-life<\/strong> that is the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: red; font-size: 11pt;\">death drive<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McGowan, Todd. Enjoying What We Don\u2019t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. 2013. &#8230; psychoanalysis in fact represents a third way. Rather than championing life against death or insisting on death as the necessary limit on life, it focuses on the death that remains internal to life. This death within life is what Freud calls &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/08\/17\/mcgowan-death-drive-subject-of-loss\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;mcgowan death drive subject of loss 1&#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":[125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727","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=11727"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11734,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11727\/revisions\/11734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}