{"id":1273,"date":"2008-12-06T20:01:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T00:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2009-04-16T15:52:50","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T20:52:50","slug":"butler-questions-lack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/12\/06\/butler-questions-lack\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler questions &#8216;lack&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here it seems crucial to ask whether the notion of <strong>lack <\/strong>taken from psychoanalysis as that which <strong>secures the contingency of <em>any<\/em> and <em>all<\/em> social formations is itself a presocial principle universalized at the cost of every consideration of power<\/strong>, sociality, culture, politics, which regulates the relative closure and openness of social practices.  <strong>Can \u017di\u017eekian psychoanalysis respond to the pressure to theorize the historical specificity of trauma<\/strong>, to provide texture for the specific exclusions, annihilations, and unthinkable losses that structure the social phenomena mentioned above [the family, concentration camps, the Gulag] (Butler 1993: 202).<\/p>\n<p>Paradoxically, the assertion of the real as the constitutive outside to symbolization is meant to support anti-essentialism, for if all symbolization is predicated on a lack, then there can be no complete or self-identical articulation of a given social identity.  And yet, if <strong>women are positioned as that which cannot exist<\/strong>, as that which is barred from existence by the law of the father, then there is a conflation of women with that foreclosed existence, that lost referent, that is surely as pernicious as any form of ontological essentialism (Butler 1993: 218).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it seems crucial to ask whether the notion of lack taken from psychoanalysis as that which secures the contingency of any and all social formations is itself a presocial principle universalized at the cost of every consideration of power, sociality, culture, politics, which regulates the relative closure and openness of social practices. Can \u017di\u017eekian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/12\/06\/butler-questions-lack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Butler questions &#8216;lack&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,78,86,40,96,94,41,20],"tags":[105,109],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abject","category-butler","category-gender","category-lack","category-phallus-butler","category-sexual-difference","category-the-real","category-zizek","tag-thedebate","tag-whoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","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=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}