{"id":12241,"date":"2013-11-08T13:23:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T18:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=12241"},"modified":"2013-11-09T10:02:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T15:02:50","slug":"mcgowan-discourse-of-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/11\/08\/mcgowan-discourse-of-university\/","title":{"rendered":"mcgowan discourse of university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>McGowan, Todd. <em>Enjoying What We Don\u2019t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis<\/em>. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2013.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dolar, \u201cThe whole point of Lacan\u2019s construction of university discourse is that this is another lure, that the seemingly autonomous and self-propelling knowledge has a secret clause, and that its truth is detained by the master under the bar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In university discourse, the master signifier occupies the position of truth, which means that expert authority works ultimately in the service of mastery. For her part, Zupancic adds, \u201cWhat Lacan recognizes in the university discourse is a new and reformed discourse of the master.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>University discourse emerges in response to the failure of the discourse of the master, but it is not a radical social structure.<strong> It represents a retooling of the authority involved in mastery in order to allow that authority to cope with the exigencies of capitalist relations of production<\/strong>. As the truth of university discourse (and expert authority), mastery is hidden and all the more effective because of this obscurity within which it dwells. 182<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McGowan, Todd. Enjoying What We Don\u2019t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2013. According to Dolar, \u201cThe whole point of Lacan\u2019s construction of university discourse is that this is another lure, that the seemingly autonomous and self-propelling knowledge has a secret clause, and that its truth is detained by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/11\/08\/mcgowan-discourse-of-university\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;mcgowan discourse of university&#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":[124,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-discourses","category-lacan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241","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=12241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12257,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12241\/revisions\/12257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}