{"id":3573,"date":"2009-06-29T17:26:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T22:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=3573"},"modified":"2009-06-29T17:27:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T22:27:46","slug":"foreclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/06\/29\/foreclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"foreclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grigg, Russell. Lacan, Language and Philosophy<\/span>. New York: SUNY Press, 2008.<\/p>\n

Thus “foreclosure” refers not to the fact that a speaker makes a statement that declares something impossible — a process closer to disavowal — but to the fact that the speaker lacks the very linguistic means for making the statement at all<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This is where the difference between repression and foreclosure<\/strong> lies. On Lacan’s analysis of Freud’s classic studies on the unconscious \u2014The Interpretation of Dreams<\/em>, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life<\/em>, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious<\/em>\u2014 The mechanisms of repression and the return of the repressed are linguistic in nature. <\/span>His thesis that the unconscious is structured like a language implies the claim that for something to be repressed it has first of all to be registered in the symbolic<\/strong>. Thus repression implies the prior recognition of the repressed in the symbolic system or register. In psychosis, on the other hand, the necessary signifiers are lacking altogether<\/strong>, and so the recognition required for repression is impossible.<\/strong> However, what is foreclosed does not simply disappear altogether but may return albeit in a different form, from outside the subject (4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grigg, Russell. Lacan, Language and Philosophy. New York: SUNY Press, 2008. Thus “foreclosure” refers not to the fact that a speaker makes a statement that declares something impossible — a process closer to disavowal — but to the fact that the speaker lacks the very linguistic means for making the statement at all. This is … Continue reading “foreclosure”<\/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":[78,112,24,94,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-foreclosure","category-lacan","category-sexual-difference","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573","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=3573"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3575,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3573\/revisions\/3575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}