{"id":4086,"date":"2009-10-14T21:01:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T01:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4086"},"modified":"2009-10-14T21:01:25","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T01:01:25","slug":"pluth-the-act-is-not-the-result-of-a-conscious-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/14\/pluth-the-act-is-not-the-result-of-a-conscious-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"pluth the act is not the result of a conscious decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pluth, Ed. <em>Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan&#8217;s Theory of the Subject<\/em>. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The act in Lacanian theory is not the result of a conscious decision, nor is it identical to a conscious deliberative process. (116)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lacan&#8217;s theory of the act requires us to conceive of a freedom that is not a metaphysical attribute of a subject but rather a phenomenon that may sometime occur to people.\u00a0 In this respect, Lacan breaks with humanism: Freedom is not an essential or a definitive attribute of &#8220;man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While such a theory can hardly answer in precise terms questions such as &#8220;What should we do?&#8221; or &#8220;How can we effect change?&#8221;<strong> it does offer a way to describe the structures and processes at work in individual and social changes<\/strong>. In this respect, it is doing something rather unique on the contemporary theoretical scene (116).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pluth, Ed. Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan&#8217;s Theory of the Subject. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. The act in Lacanian theory is not the result of a conscious decision, nor is it identical to a conscious deliberative process. (116) Lacan&#8217;s theory of the act requires us to conceive of a freedom that is not a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/14\/pluth-the-act-is-not-the-result-of-a-conscious-decision\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;pluth the act is not the result of a conscious decision&#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":[83,24,40,119,15,106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency","category-lacan","category-lack","category-language","category-subjectivity","category-the-act","category-the-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086","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=4086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4087,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4086\/revisions\/4087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}