{"id":3204,"date":"2009-10-14T11:37:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-14T15:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=3204"},"modified":"2011-10-25T12:45:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T17:45:28","slug":"pluth-fort-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/14\/pluth-fort-da\/","title":{"rendered":"pluth fort-da"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pluth, Ed. Signifers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan\u2019s Theory of the Subject<\/span>. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007.<\/p>\n

This blog entry was originally published on May 10, 2009 14:17<\/em><\/p>\n

Fort-Da<\/em> game is a repeated, attempt to exorcise a traumatic event.\u00a0 Yet instead of leading to a simple release of libidinal tension, and perhaps a dissolution of the traumatic event, the Fort-Da<\/em> game sublates that tension into a signifying activity \u2014canceling the event out as an affective tension, yet preserving it as a signifying tension in the form of a compulsive linguistic repetition.<\/p>\n

… in the Fort-Da<\/em> game, where the traumatic event is also simply being said, or named, by being taken up into signifiers. Yet there is no production of meaning by these signifiers, and the game does not use signifiers as part of an attempt to obtain a recognition of the trauma from the Other.<\/p>\n

In other words, the game is not making a demand on the mother to satisfy the child’s needs. It merely repeats a trauma or signifying impasse that causes the subject and is an act in which the subject is disjoined from an Other who can bestow and guarantee recognition. <\/span>104<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The signifying activity involved in the act achieves something fundamentally different from what fantasy achieves.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an act, a subject does not constitute itself as a satisfying object of the Other’s desire<\/strong>, and in it a subject is not demanding recognition of its own desire by the Other either. Rather, a subject is simply using signifiers autonomously, as it were, in a signifying repetition of a libidinal event. Perhaps this gives us a further hint as to why Lacan calls an act transgressive: an act uses the Other’s language against, despite, and without, the Other, in what could be called a profound indifference to the Other <\/strong>(104).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pluth, Ed. Signifers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan\u2019s Theory of the Subject. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007. This blog entry was originally published on May 10, 2009 14:17 Fort-Da game is a repeated, attempt to exorcise a traumatic event.\u00a0 Yet instead of leading to a simple release of libidinal tension, and perhaps … Continue reading “pluth fort-da”<\/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":[21,24,40,119,98,15,106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jouissance","category-lacan","category-lack","category-language","category-resignify","category-subjectivity","category-the-act","category-the-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204","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=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4046,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3204\/revisions\/4046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}