{"id":3999,"date":"2009-10-10T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T18:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2009-10-14T10:22:28","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T14:22:28","slug":"pluth-others-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/10\/pluth-others-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"pluth other’s desire mirror stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pluth, Ed. Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject<\/em>. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.\u00a0 Print.<\/p>\n

In the mirror stage, I am presented with an image (or a signifier, a unary trait, in Lacan’s later revision of the mirror stage), and I get identified with it<\/strong>.\u00a0 Lacan’s article on the mirror stage does not offer a very satisfactory account of how this identification happens. <\/em><\/strong>It just seems to happen.<\/p>\n

In Lacan’s later discussion of the mirror stage, we do get an account of why mirror-stage identification occurs. It occurs because the Other identifies me with the image. <\/strong>This is my motivation to identify with the image.\u00a0 It is as if my identity is already “out there,” affirmed by the Other as “me” before I have anything to do with it<\/strong> (72).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A subject is not consciousness<\/h2>\n

nor is it a “vital immanence.” We have already seen that Lacan rejects these ideas.<\/p>\n

When the idea of the Other’s desire<\/span> is added to this account of identity,<\/strong> the subject can finally be conceived as something that is neither consciousness nor an ineffable lived experience. In other words, the Other’s desire makes it possible to account for how a subject is something other than its identity or its ego.\u00a0 In the encounter with the Other’s desire I am given neither an image nor a signifier for what I am, and I am not encouraged by the other to identify with anything.\u00a0 The Other’s desire is in this way different from the Other’s affirmation of a place for me in identification.\u00a0 With respect to the Other’s desire, I am without a place.\u00a0 I am not even really addressed by the Other. … The Other’s desire is not at all directed toward me<\/strong> (73).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pluth, Ed. Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.\u00a0 Print. In the mirror stage, I am presented with an image (or a signifier, a unary trait, in Lacan’s later revision of the mirror stage), and I get identified with it.\u00a0 Lacan’s article on the mirror stage does not … Continue reading “pluth other’s desire mirror stage”<\/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":[24,119,15,106,41],"tags":[109],"class_list":["post-3999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lacan","category-language","category-subjectivity","category-the-act","category-the-real","tag-whoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999","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=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4001,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions\/4001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}