{"id":4196,"date":"2009-10-19T11:34:27","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T15:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4196"},"modified":"2009-10-19T12:24:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:24:44","slug":"4196","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/19\/4196\/","title":{"rendered":"sharpe real of jouissance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sharpe, Matthew. Slavoj \u017di\u017eek: a little piece of the real<\/em>. Burlington Vt: Ashgate, 2004.<\/p>\n

\u017di\u017eek’s contention is that the social conditions of the contemporary would demand nothing less than a radical rethinking of the discursive constitution of subjectivity<\/strong> as such. … what risk theory fails to register, and what it falls to a psychoanalytically based analysis to<\/em> register, is the changed situation of contemporary subjectivity vis-\u00e0-vis<\/em> the ‘Real of jouissance’<\/strong> (86).<\/p>\n

I know very well that symbolic conventions are empty, yet I continue to follow the social expectations [as the only means to attain to money, power, sex (etc.) = because I believe through the duped other(s)].<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So \u017di\u017eek’s position is that we should defitely not be taken in by the contemporary subject’s conscious sense of himself as something of ‘an outlaw … staying clear of binding commitment’ (\u017di\u017eek, 1991b: 103, 102) Perhaps more than ever, \u017di\u017eek argues, today’s subjectivity is radically conformist<\/em>. “… instead of the symbolic Law, we have a multitude of rules<\/em> to follow” What \u017di\u017eek is referring to are the multitude of\u00a0 ‘… imaginary ideals (of social success, of bodily fitness…)’ with which the multimedia, and in particular advertising discourse, solicit us.<\/p>\n

From \u017di\u017eek in 1991:<\/p>\n

… [w]hat usually goes unnoticed [by social psychology] is that this disintegration of the ego-ideal entails the installation of a ‘maternal<\/strong>‘ superego taht does not prohibit enjoyment, but, on the contrary imposes it and punishes ‘social failure’ in a far more cruel and severe way, through an unbearable and self-destructive anxiety.\u00a0 All the babble about the decline nof ‘paternal authority’ merely conceals the resurgnece of this incpmparably more oppressive agency. 89<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sharpe, Matthew. Slavoj \u017di\u017eek: a little piece of the real. Burlington Vt: Ashgate, 2004. \u017di\u017eek’s contention is that the social conditions of the contemporary would demand nothing less than a radical rethinking of the discursive constitution of subjectivity as such. … what risk theory fails to register, and what it falls to a psychoanalytically based … Continue reading “sharpe real of jouissance”<\/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":[21,24,15,41,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jouissance","category-lacan","category-subjectivity","category-the-real","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196","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=4196"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4196\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}