{"id":4107,"date":"2009-10-15T21:30:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T01:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2011-10-25T13:34:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T18:34:19","slug":"pluth-acts-do-not-make-a-demand-on-other-for-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/15\/pluth-acts-do-not-make-a-demand-on-other-for-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Pluth acts do not make a demand on Other for recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

True, an act does not produce a subject who is identified with any particular signifier, but it does not produce a subject separate from signifiers altogether either. How can signifiers be used such that they avoid making a demand on the Other for recognition?<\/strong> If an act uses signifiers in a punlike way, and if it does not make a demand on the Other, then what does it do? Is it simply incomprehensible? A meaningless blah blah blah? (139)<\/p>\n

Signifiers must be employed in some way in an act, but this does not mean that an act has to fall on either side of an unsatisfactory division: on the one hand, a meaningless, onanistic blah blah blah, in which what is enjoyed is nothing but the sound of one’s own voice; or on the other hand, an either latent or manifest attempt to get recognized by the Other by means of what is being said<\/strong>.\u00a0 As Lacan puts it in one of his late seminars, what he is aiming at is a kind of signifying activity that can be found in “some artistic practices,” one that could be said to be “beyond the symbolic” (XXIV, Ornicar?, 15:12).\u00a0 This does not mean it would be preverbal or nonverbal, however. Lacan says instead that it should be seen as “hyper-verbal,” “a verbal to the second power” (XXIV, Ornicar?, 15:12) (139)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pluth, Ed. Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan’s Theory of the Subject. Albany: New York, 2007. True, an act does not produce a subject who is identified with any particular signifier, but it does not produce a subject separate from signifiers altogether either. How can signifiers be used such that they avoid making a demand … Continue reading “Pluth acts do not make a demand on Other for recognition”<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107","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=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8500,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions\/8500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}