{"id":13324,"date":"2015-09-06T11:56:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=13324"},"modified":"2015-09-06T12:33:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T16:33:00","slug":"zizek-interrogating-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2015\/09\/06\/zizek-interrogating-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"\u017di\u017eek desire Other pt1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u017di\u017eek, S. (2005). Connections of the Freudian Field to Philosophy and Popular Culture. Interrogating the Real. <\/em>In R. Butler & S. Stephens (Eds.), Interrogating the Real\u00a0<\/em>(pp. 62-88). New York, NY: Continuum.<\/p>\n

So, in this subjective destitution, in accepting my non-existence as subject, I have to renounce the fetish of the hidden treasure responsible for my unique worth. I have to accept my radical externalization in the symbolic medium. As is well known, the ultimate support of what I experience as the uniqueness of my personality is provided by my fundamental fantasy, by this absolutely particular, non-universalizable formation.<\/p>\n

Now, what\u2019s the problem with fantasy? I think that the key point, usually overlooked, is the way that Lacan articulated the notion of fantasy which is, \u2018OK, fantasy stages a desire, but whose desire?<\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n

My point is: not the subject\u2019s desire<\/strong>, not their own desire. What we encounter in the very core of the fantasy formation is the relationship to the desire of the<\/span> Other<\/span><\/strong>: to the opacity<\/strong> of the Other\u2019s desire. The desire staged in fantasy, in my fantasy, is precisely not my own<\/strong>, not mine, but the desire of the<\/span> Other<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Fantasy<\/span> <\/strong>is a way for the subject to answer the question of what object they are for the Other<\/span><\/strong>, in the eyes of the Other<\/span><\/strong>, for the Other\u2019s desire. That is to say, what does the Other<\/span><\/strong> see in them? What role do they play in the Other\u2019s desire?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is their role in the desire of the Other?\u2019 This is, I think, absolutely crucial, which is why, as you probably know, in Lacan\u2019s graph of desire,\u00a0fantasy<\/span> <\/strong>comes as an answer to that question beyond the level of meaning, \u2018What do you want?<\/span><\/strong>\u2019, precisely as an answer to the enigma of the Other\u2019s desire.<\/p>\n

Here, again, I think we must be very precise. Everybody knows this phrase, repeated again and again, Desire<\/span> <\/strong>is the desire of the<\/span> Other<\/span><\/strong>.\u2019 But I think that to each crucial stage of Lacan\u2019s teaching a different reading of this well-known formula corresponds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u017di\u017eek, S. (2005). Connections of the Freudian Field to Philosophy and Popular Culture. Interrogating the Real. In R. Butler & S. Stephens (Eds.), Interrogating the Real\u00a0(pp. 62-88). New York, NY: Continuum. So, in this subjective destitution, in accepting my non-existence as subject, I have to renounce the fetish of the hidden treasure responsible for my … Continue reading “\u017di\u017eek desire Other pt1”<\/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":[111,142,76,106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desire","category-nightworld","category-sub-destitute","category-the-act","category-the-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324","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=13324"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13330,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13324\/revisions\/13330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}