{"id":13365,"date":"2015-10-05T16:37:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T20:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=13365"},"modified":"2015-10-05T16:56:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T20:56:56","slug":"verhaeghe-pt-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2015\/10\/05\/verhaeghe-pt-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Verhaeghe pt 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verhaeghe, P. (1998). Causation and Destitution of a Pre-ontological Non-entity: On the Lacanian Subject. In D. Nobus (Ed.),\u00a0 Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. <\/em>(pp. 164-189). New York: State University of New York Press.<\/p>\n

Lacan not only distances himself from this substantiated interpretation of the unconscious, he even subverts it: the unconscious is of the order of the … the ‘non-realised,’ the ‘unborn,’ ‘limbo’ (les limbes<\/em>). As a process , it is always situated at the border; in itself, it is a void, an abyss<\/span><\/strong> … This abyss<\/span><\/strong> is pre-ontological:<\/span><\/strong> not of the order of to be or not to be, but of the order of the not-realised<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

And if this unconscious becomes realised, it always<\/strong> happens in a bungled, failed way<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There is cause only in something that doesn’t work.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hence, we find ourselves again dealing with two levels . On the one hand, there is the chain of signifiers with the lack between them (Freud : the repressed) . This is the level of the automaton, of the law and predictability, and thus of science. Underlying this chain, we find a more fundamental lack, concerning the real beyond any signifier (Freud : the primal repressed) . This is the level of the tuche, of cause and unpredictability.<\/p>\n

The interaction between the two levels consists in the never ending attempt of the chain of signifiers to produce an answer to the real<\/strong><\/span>. This attempt fails and results in the exact opposite: the more signifiers produced, the further one moves away from this real<\/strong><\/span>. Therefore, in Seminar XX<\/em>, Lacan defines the real<\/strong><\/span> as ‘what does not stop not writing itself.<\/p>\n

What is this real all about? Lacan is quite clear on this point. The real<\/strong><\/span> beyond the signifier, functioning as cause, is drive-ridden, and that is why Lacan took the drive as his starting-point.<\/p>\n

With this aspect of the real<\/strong><\/span>, the meeting is always a failed one, because it contains no signifier. In the course of his teaching, Lacan enumerated the various manifestations of the real<\/strong><\/span>: the Other of the Other, the sexual relationship, Woman (La femme<\/em>), all of them summarized in the notation of the barred Other \"Signifier_Lack_Other\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Verhaeghe, P. (1998). Causation and Destitution of a Pre-ontological Non-entity: On the Lacanian Subject. In D. Nobus (Ed.),\u00a0 Key Concepts of Lacanian Psychoanalysis. (pp. 164-189). New York: State University of New York Press. Lacan not only distances himself from this substantiated interpretation of the unconscious, he even subverts it: the unconscious is of the order … Continue reading “Verhaeghe pt 3”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13365","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=13365"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13371,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13365\/revisions\/13371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}