{"id":4155,"date":"2009-10-17T17:51:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-17T21:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4155"},"modified":"2011-10-25T21:23:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T02:23:06","slug":"pluth-an-act-entails-the-demolition-of-the-other-as-subject-supposed-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/17\/pluth-an-act-entails-the-demolition-of-the-other-as-subject-supposed-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"pluth an act entails the demolition of the other as subject-supposed-to-know"},"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;\"><strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">An act entails the demolition of the Other as a subject-supposed-to-know<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, the Other as a support of identification, capable of providing that treasure of treasures, recognition. 157<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>One important thing about the act as Lacan portrays it is that<\/strong> <strong>the subject is an effect of it and does not produce it<\/strong>. \u00a0I still think that it is important to keep this in mind, lest something fundamental be misunderstood about what happens during a psychoanalytic cure \u2014 as well as elsewhere, in those moments when we humans, now and then, find ourselves in the process of an act.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have been arguing that an act offers a way of thinking about manifestations of freedom without the usual presupposition of a sovereign, conscious subject exercising the freedom, or a structure of some type exercising its freedom in the subject&#8217;s place. <strong>An act is a production of the unconscious, which is, of course, not an irrational thing but a calculating, thoughtful thing \u2014 if it can be called a thing at all. \u00a0&#8230; <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>While an act is signifying, and very much an affair of signifiers, it is not the result of a decision or an act of will or any conscious deliberation but should be seen as a production of the unconscious, a production whose conditions for emergence can be enhanced by certain things (such as what goes on in analytic discourse) <\/strong>(161).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pluth, Ed. Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan&#8217;s Theory of the Subject. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. An act entails the demolition of the Other as a subject-supposed-to-know, the Other as a support of identification, capable of providing that treasure of treasures, recognition. 157 One important thing about the act as Lacan portrays it is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/17\/pluth-an-act-entails-the-demolition-of-the-other-as-subject-supposed-to-know\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;pluth an act entails the demolition of the other as subject-supposed-to-know&#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":[24,40,119,15,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lacan","category-lack","category-language","category-subjectivity","category-the-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155","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=4155"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4157,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4155\/revisions\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}