{"id":3198,"date":"2009-10-14T18:20:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T22:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2009-10-15T12:57:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T16:57:26","slug":"pluth-on-the-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/14\/pluth-on-the-act\/","title":{"rendered":"pluth on the act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pluth, Ed. Signifers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject<\/span>. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.<\/p>\n

Originally published on: May 12, 2009 @ 13:53<\/em><\/p>\n

the act does not depend o<\/span>n gaining recognition from the Other<\/strong><\/h3>\n

involves doing something with signifiers<\/p>\n

not far from Austin’s performative speech act but Lacan is not interested on acts that change the situation of the world or the set of facts within it . Lacan focuses on acts that change the structure of the subject If Austinian speech acts change the state of affairs in the world \u2014making meetings closed, bachelors married, and so on\u2014 then Lacanian speech acts change the subject<\/strong> (101).<\/p>\n

The act means crossing a certain threshold<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pluth goes on, “Notice that Austinian speech acts, in contrast, are not at all transgressive but are in fact highly ritualized and codified. The conditions for the success of an Austinian speech act largely depend upon the existence of social guarantees and rituals. Marriages, for example, are only successfully accomplished when performed under very specfic circumstances, and by the proper authorities. According to Lacan’s conception, however, an act transforms a subject, and even though it occurs with signifiers, it does not happen by following a preestablished ritual or code.<\/strong> Also, of course, there is no authority that can ensure the legitimacy of such an act. 101<\/p>\n

It is not the case that someone is simply changed by an act: he or she is reinaugurated as a subject. Where there was a certain structure or law operative for a subject prior to an act \u2014imagine this to be an unconscious law, the kind of meaning and determination constructed by the fantasy\u2014 an act brings about a transformation in this structure and thereby inaugurates a new subject. In this way, an act situates one outside such a law, and for this reason it is appropriate to consider acts to be transgressive. 102<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pluth, Ed. Signifers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. Originally published on: May 12, 2009 @ 13:53 the act does not depend on gaining recognition from the Other involves doing something with signifiers not far from Austin’s performative speech act but Lacan is not … Continue reading “pluth on the act”<\/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":[12,21,24,119,98,15,106,41],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-jouissance","category-lacan","category-language","category-resignify","category-subjectivity","category-the-act","category-the-real","tag-whoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","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=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}