{"id":3475,"date":"2009-06-10T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T15:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2009-06-10T11:07:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T16:07:17","slug":"butler-psychic-life-of-power-chapter-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/06\/10\/butler-psychic-life-of-power-chapter-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler Psychic Life of Power Chapter 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What Freud here call the &#8220;character of the ego&#8221; appears to be a sedimentation of objects loved and lost, the archaeological remainder, as it were, of unresolved grief.<\/p>\n<p>If the object can no longer exist in the external world, it will then exist internally, and that internalization will be a way to disavow the loss, to keep it at bay, to stay or postpone the recognition and suffering of loss.  134<\/p>\n<p>Are those identifications that are central to the formation of gender produced through melancholic identification? 135<\/p>\n<p>If the assumption of femininity and the assumption of masculinity proceed through the accomplishment of an always tenuous heterosexuality, we might understand the force of this accomplishment as mandating the abandonment of homosexual attachments or, perhaps more trenchantly, <em><strong>preempting <\/strong><\/em>the possibility of homosexual attachment, a foreclosure of possibility which produces a domain of homosexuality understood as unlivable passion and ungrievable loss.   This heterosexuality is produced not only through implementing the prohibition on incest but, prior to that, by enforcing the prohibition on homosexuality. <span style=\"background-color: #ffff00;\">the oedipal conflict presumes that heterosexual desire has already been <em><strong>accomplished<\/strong><\/em><\/span>, that the distinction between heterosexual and homosexual has been enforced (a distinction which, after all, has no necessity); in this sense, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>the prohibition on incest presupposes the prohibition on homosexuality<\/strong><\/span>, for it presumes the heterosexualization of desire. 135<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/rterada\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"file:\/\/\/C:\/Users\/rterada\/AppData\/Local\/Temp\/moz-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What Freud here call the &#8220;character of the ego&#8221; appears to be a sedimentation of objects loved and lost, the archaeological remainder, as it were, of unresolved grief. If the object can no longer exist in the external world, it will then exist internally, and that internalization will be a way to disavow the loss, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/06\/10\/butler-psychic-life-of-power-chapter-5\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Butler Psychic Life of Power Chapter 5&#8221;<\/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":[78,86,87,85,94,114,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-gender","category-incest","category-melancholia","category-sexual-difference","category-sexuation","category-subjectivity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475","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=3475"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3488,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3475\/revisions\/3488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}