{"id":12620,"date":"2014-03-25T10:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=12620"},"modified":"2014-04-01T14:16:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-01T18:16:22","slug":"12620","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2014\/03\/25\/12620\/","title":{"rendered":"zupan\u010di\u010d antigone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

In relation to Lacan’s commentary on Antigone, stress is often laid on the formula ‘ne pas c\u00e9der sur son desir<\/em><\/strong>‘ and on Antigone as a figure of desire. 250<\/p>\n

But another, very unusual phrase in Lacan’s commentary deserves our attention: ‘the realization of desire’.<\/p>\n

We might say that what makes Antigone Antigone<\/strong> is not simply that she does not give up on her desire but, more precisely, that she realizes her desire.<\/p>\n

This implies that she is not simply a figure of desire, since desire opposes itself, in its very nature, to the realization of desire. So what does this ‘realization of desire’ mean?<\/p>\n

It is clear that it does not mean the fulfilment of desire: it does not mean the realization of that which the subject desires. In Lacanian theory, there is no such thing as the desired object<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There is the demanded object, and then there is the objet-cause of desire<\/span> which, having no positive content, refers to what we get if we subtract the satisfaction we find in a given object from the demand (we have) for this object<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Essentially linked to this logic of subtraction which gives rise to a (possibly) endless metonymy, desire is nothing but that which introduces in to the subject’s universe an incommensurable or infinite measure (Lacan’ s terms).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zupan\u010di\u010d, Alenka. The Ethics of the Real. New York: Verso. 2000. In relation to Lacan’s commentary on Antigone, stress is often laid on the formula ‘ne pas c\u00e9der sur son desir‘ and on Antigone as a figure of desire. 250 But another, very unusual phrase in Lacan’s commentary deserves our attention: ‘the realization of desire’. … Continue reading “zupan\u010di\u010d antigone”<\/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":[111,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desire","category-lacan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620","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=12620"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12620\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}