{"id":12613,"date":"2014-03-25T10:12:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=12613"},"modified":"2014-03-25T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:26:28","slug":"12613","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2014\/03\/25\/12613\/","title":{"rendered":"infinite of desire jouissance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zupan\u010di\u010d, Alenka. The Ethics of the Real<\/em>. New York: Verso. 2000.<\/p>\n

The problem of the infinite is not how to attain it but, rather, how to get rid of its stain, a stain that ceaselessly pursues us. The Lacanian name for this parasitism<\/span><\/strong> is enjoyment [jouissance]<\/strong>. 249<\/p>\n

The death drive is not a drive that aims at death<\/strong>. It aims neither at life nor at death. The drive can be ‘mortal’ precisely because it is indifferent to death (as well as to life); because it is not preoccupied with death, because death does not interest it. …\u00a0 it is indifferent to death. 250<\/p>\n

How, then, does the infinite parasitize the finite<\/strong>, our existence as ‘finite beings’ ?<\/p>\n

there are two modes of this parasitism<\/strong>, each of them resulting in a different figure of the infinite: first, there is the infinite of desire<\/span><\/strong>, which might be described as a ‘bad infinity’<\/p>\n

there is the infinite of jouissance<\/span><\/strong> (linked to the logic of the Real<\/span>, and of the realization). Ethics itself can be situated in the passage from the one to the other<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

This passage, however, can itself take two different paths<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The paradigm of the first is indicated by the figure of Antigone<\/strong>, and brings out the co-ordinates of ‘classical ethics’ .<\/p>\n

The paradigm of the second is evident in the figure of Sygne de Co\u00fbfontaine<\/strong>, and constitutes what we might call ‘modern ethics’. 250<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zupan\u010di\u010d, Alenka. The Ethics of the Real. New York: Verso. 2000. The problem of the infinite is not how to attain it but, rather, how to get rid of its stain, a stain that ceaselessly pursues us. The Lacanian name for this parasitism is enjoyment [jouissance]. 249 The death drive is not a drive that … Continue reading “infinite of desire jouissance”<\/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":[79,21,15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics_real","category-jouissance","category-subjectivity","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613","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=12613"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12616,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12613\/revisions\/12616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}