{"id":12890,"date":"2014-06-23T15:53:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T19:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=12890"},"modified":"2014-06-23T16:40:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:40:39","slug":"12890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2014\/06\/23\/12890\/","title":{"rendered":"glynos fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glynos, Jason and Yannis Stavrakakis. (2008) \u201cLacan and Political Subjectivity: Fantasy and Enjoyment in Psychoanalysis and Political Theory.\u201d <em>Subjectivity<\/em>, 2008, 24, (256-274)<\/p>\n<p>The idea of the subject as <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">lack<\/span><\/strong> cannot be separated from the subject\u2019s attempts to cover over this <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">constitutive lack<\/span><\/strong> at the level of representation by affirming its positive (symbolic-imaginary) identity or, when this fails, through continuous identificatory acts aiming to re-institute an identity.<\/p>\n<p>This <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">lack<\/span><\/strong> necessitates the constitution of every identity though <strong>processes of identification<\/strong> with social available traits of identification found, for example, in political ideologies, practices of consumption, and a whole range of social roles; and <em>vice versa<\/em>: the inability of identificatory acts to produce a full identity by subsuming subjective division (re)produces the radical ex-centricity of the subject and, along with it, a whole negative dialectics of partial fixation. Subjectivity in Lacan\u2019s work, then, is linked not only to <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">lack<\/span> <\/strong>but also our attempts to eliminate this <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">lack<\/span><\/strong> that, however, does not stop re-emerging. (260-261)<\/p>\n<p>A different relation to fantasy and thus mode of enjoyment or subjectivity is possible<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; phallic jouissance: a subject is in thrall to his fantasy and thus insensitive &#8220;to the contingency of social reality.&#8221;\u00a0 an aversion to ambiguity<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>non-phallic<\/strong> form of enjoyment (<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>jouissance feminine<\/em><\/span> <\/strong>or Other <em>jouissance<\/em>) Here the subject is taken to acknowledge and <strong>affirm the contingency<\/strong> of social relations and to pursue an enjoyment that is not guided by the impulse to &#8220;complete&#8221;, to &#8220;totalize&#8221;, or to &#8220;make full or whole&#8221;, an enjoyment situated, rather, on the &#8220;the side of the not-whole&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glynos, Jason and Yannis Stavrakakis. (2008) \u201cLacan and Political Subjectivity: Fantasy and Enjoyment in Psychoanalysis and Political Theory.\u201d Subjectivity, 2008, 24, (256-274) The idea of the subject as lack cannot be separated from the subject\u2019s attempts to cover over this constitutive lack at the level of representation by affirming its positive (symbolic-imaginary) identity or, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2014\/06\/23\/12890\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;glynos fantasy&#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":[12,21,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-jouissance","category-subjectivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12890","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=12890"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12896,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12890\/revisions\/12896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}