{"id":247,"date":"2008-09-01T23:13:28","date_gmt":"2008-09-02T03:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=247"},"modified":"2008-09-30T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T14:58:12","slug":"fantasmatic-logics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/01\/fantasmatic-logics\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasmatic Logics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider first the relationship between <strong>fantasmatic logics<\/strong> and social practices.\u00a0 Though <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">social practices<\/span> are punctuated by the mishaps, tragedies and contingencies of everyday life, social relations are expereinced and understood in this mode of activity as an <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">accepted way of life<\/span>.\u00a0 The role of fantasy in this context is not to set up an illusion that provides a subject with a false picture of the world, but to ensure that the radical contingency of social reality &#8212; and the political dimension of a practice more specifically &#8212; remains in the background &#8230; <span style=\"color: #333399;\">(T)he role of fantasy is to actively <strong>contain or suppress the political dimension<\/strong> of a practice<\/span> (145).<\/p>\n<p>The operation of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">fantasmatic logics can thus reinforce the social dimension of practices by covering over the fundamental lack in reality<\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">and keeping at bay what we have labelled &#8216;the real&#8217;<\/span> (146).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In sum, whether in the context of social practices or political practices, fantasy operates so as to conceal or close off the radical contingency of social relations.\u00a0 It does this through a fantasmatic narrative or logic that promises a fullness-to-come once a named or implied obstacle is overcome &#8212; the beatific dimension of fantasy &#8211; or which foretells disaster if the obstacle proves insurmountable, which might be termed the horrific dimension of fantasy (147).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Images of omnipotence or of total control &#8211;&gt; beatific dimension of fantasy<br \/>\nImages of impotence or victimhood &#8211;&gt; horrific dimension of fantasy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider first the relationship between fantasmatic logics and social practices.\u00a0 Though social practices are punctuated by the mishaps, tragedies and contingencies of everyday life, social relations are expereinced and understood in this mode of activity as an accepted way of life.\u00a0 The role of fantasy in this context is not to set up an illusion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/09\/01\/fantasmatic-logics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fantasmatic Logics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-logics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","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=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}