Zupan\u010di\u010d, A. (2003) The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two. MIT Press<\/p>\n
Here we\u00a0come to the last grand narrative from the era of the end of grand narratives:\u00a0there is no Real, everything is convention, language games, a labyrinth of different possibilities that, at least in principle, are all of\u00a0equal value. What is the effect of this thesis?<\/p>\n
Its effect is not exactly\u00a0the disappearance of the Real<\/span><\/strong>, but, rather, its full coincidence with\u00a0reality. In other words, the reality principle<\/strong> is now conceived of as\u00a0the only and ultimate Real<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n This is what Nietzsche calls \u201cmodern nihilism\u201d\u00a0and the \u201ccrisis of values,\u201d the latter being precisely the \u201ccrisis\u00a0of sublimation\u201d in the sense described above.<\/p>\n At issue is not a\u00a0complaint about the corruption of values, and lack of respect for\u00a0them, but a diagnosis concerning the weakening of the sublimatory\u00a0force, the force that could produce or create some distance toward\u00a0the reality principle and its claims.<\/p>\n It entails the closure of the very\u00a0space of creativity.<\/strong> This is why it is very important to keep insisting\u00a0upon the notion of the\u00a0Real\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>that, in turn, has to be defined in terms\u00a0other than those of some \u201cauthentic Real\u201d lurking behind the deceptive\u00a0appearances. And the (late) Lacanian notion of the\u00a0Real<\/span><\/strong> can\u00a0help us to do precisely that. <\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>Real<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0is not some authentic Beyond,\u00a0constituting the truth of the reality. The <\/span>Real\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>is not the Beyond of reality,\u00a0but its own blind spot or dysfunction\u2014that is to say, the Real\u00a0<\/span>is\u00a0the stumbling block on account of which <\/strong><\/span>reality does not fully coincide with\u00a0itself<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. The <\/span>Real\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>is the<\/span> intrinsic division of reality itself<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zupan\u010di\u010d, A. (2003) The Shortest Shadow: Nietzsche’s Philosophy of the Two. MIT Press Here we\u00a0come to the last grand narrative from the era of the end of grand narratives:\u00a0there is no Real, everything is convention, language games, a labyrinth of different possibilities that, at least in principle, are all of\u00a0equal value. What is the effect … Continue reading “zupan\u010di\u010d sublimation pt 2”<\/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":[125,38,79,21,40,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drive","category-ethics","category-ethics_real","category-jouissance","category-lack","category-objet-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290","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=13290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13293,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13290\/revisions\/13293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}