{"id":12882,"date":"2014-06-09T12:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=12882"},"modified":"2014-06-09T12:57:25","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:57:25","slug":"12882","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2014\/06\/09\/12882\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar VI commentary by miller"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is Jacques-Alain Miller’s commentary<\/a> on Lacan’s Seminar VI Desire and Its Interpretation<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What does Lacan show? That desire is not a biological function; that it is not directed to a natural object; that its object is fantasmatic. Thereby, desire is extravagant. It is elusive to anything that wants to master it. It plays tricks on you. But also, if it is not recognised, it produces symptoms. In an analysis, it is a question of interpreting, that is to say, of reading in the symptom the message of desire that it contains<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If desire goes astray, it arouses in exchange the invention of artifices which play the role of a compass. An animal species has its natural compass, which is unique. In the human species, the compasses are multiple: these are signifying montages, speeches. They say what has to be done: how to think, how to enjoy, how to reproduce. However, the fantasy of each remains irreducible to common ideas.<\/p>\n

Until recent times, our compasses, as diverse as they are, always pointed to the same north: the Father<\/span><\/strong>. We believed that patriarch to be an anthropological invariant. His decline is accelerated with equality of conditions, the increased power of capitalism, the domination of technology. We are in the process of leaving the age of the Father<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Another discourse is the the process of supplanting the old one. Innovation in the place of tradition. Rather than hierarchy, the network. The attraction of the future outweighs the burdens of the past. The feminine overtakes the manly. There where there was an immutable order, transformational fluxes push incessantly at every limit.<\/p>\n

Freud is from the age of the father. He did a lot to save it. The Church ended up finally noticing that. Lacan followed the path opened up by Freud, but it drove him to suppose that the Father is a symptom. He shows it here in the example of Hamlet<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What we learned from Lacan \u2013 the formalisation of Oedipus, the accent put on the Name of the Father \u2013 was his only starting point. Seminar VI already reworks it: Oedipus is not the unique solution to desire, it is only its normalised form<\/strong>; it is a pathogen it does not exhaust the destiny of desire. In fact it is with a praise of perversion<\/span><\/strong> that the volume ends.<\/p>\n

Lacan gives it the the value of a rebellion against the identifications which assure the maintenance of the social routine. This Seminar announced \u201cthe realignment of previously instated conformisms, or even their explosion\u201d. That is where we are. Lacan speaks to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is Jacques-Alain Miller’s commentary on Lacan’s Seminar VI Desire and Its Interpretation. What does Lacan show? That desire is not a biological function; that it is not directed to a natural object; that its object is fantasmatic. Thereby, desire is extravagant. It is elusive to anything that wants to master it. It plays tricks … Continue reading “Seminar VI commentary by miller”<\/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":[111,24,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desire","category-lacan","category-lack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882","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=12882"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12886,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12882\/revisions\/12886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}