Chiesa, L. (2007). Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan. Massachusetts: MIT Press.<\/p>\n
Chiesa on Chapter 2<\/a><\/p>\n The discovery of a structural split in\/of the subject subverts the Cartesian cogito while, at the same time, revealing its intimate relation to psychoanalysis. As Lacan repeatedly states, \u201cI think where I am not, therefore I am where I do not think.\u201d<\/strong> (39)<\/p>\n This is to say that the unconscious I, the subject of the enunciation, really thinks at the unconscious level: it (\u00e7a<\/em><\/strong>) thinks where the I qua<\/em> ego and\u00a0qua<\/em> subject of the statement is not (conscious).<\/p>\n Conversely, the I\u00a0qua<\/em> linguistic ego is (conscious) where it, the unconscious subject, does not think.<\/p>\n Most importantly, the subversion of the Cartesian ego shows that its illusion of unity is possible only because<\/em> of its strict interdependence with the Spaltung<\/span><\/strong>. There is no self consciousness without the unconscious, and vice versa.<\/p>\n Descartes\u2019s formulation of a fundamental principle of self-consciousness could be said contemporaneously to decree, at the level of the history of thought, the formal birth of the unconscious<\/strong> (although this birth will remain implicit until Freud). Consequently, it is strictly speaking senseless to speak of a pre-Cartesian notion of the unconscious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chiesa, L. (2007). Subjectivity and Otherness: A Philosophical Reading of Lacan. Massachusetts: MIT Press. Chiesa on Chapter 2 The discovery of a structural split in\/of the subject subverts the Cartesian cogito while, at the same time, revealing its intimate relation to psychoanalysis. As Lacan repeatedly states, \u201cI think where I am not, therefore I am … Continue reading “chiesa I think where I am not and am where I do not think”<\/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":[119,118,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-symbolic","category-unconscious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339","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=13339"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13342,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13339\/revisions\/13342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}