{"id":4201,"date":"2009-10-19T12:36:12","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2009-10-19T14:10:26","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T18:10:26","slug":"sharpe-the-other-is-itself-divided-the-other-does-not-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/19\/sharpe-the-other-is-itself-divided-the-other-does-not-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"sharpe the Other is itself divided the Other does not exist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharpe, Matthew. <em>Slavoj \u017di\u017eek: a little piece of the real<\/em>. Burlington Vt: Ashgate, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\u017di\u017eek&#8217;s position is that ideology primarily captures subjects at the level of their unconscious beliefs, and that it does this by structuring their access to jouissance (99).<\/p>\n<p>\u017di\u017eek proposes &#8230; that the answer to how one can still speak from &#8216;outside&#8217; of the big Other of a hegemonic ideological system <em>comes from a more detailed ontology of this Other itself.\u00a0 &#8230; the Other is itself divided and\/or inconsistent, and so contains the resources of its own critique <\/em>(100).<\/p>\n<p>Modernity, \u017di\u017eek repeats, is that &#8216;enlightened&#8217; epoch wherein: &#8220;&#8230; the symbolic substance (the &#8220;big Other&#8221; <em>qua<\/em> texture of symbolic tradition) can <em>no longer<\/em> contain the subject, <strong>can <em>no longer<\/em> hold him to his symbolic mandate.<\/strong> [\u017di\u017eek, 1992: 134 (Sharpe&#8217;s italics)]<\/p>\n<p><em>\u017di\u017eek&#8217;s<\/em> argument is that sexuality only <em>emerges<\/em> in the first place at the points of the <em>failure<\/em> of what can be sanctioned by social discourse (113).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharpe, Matthew. Slavoj \u017di\u017eek: a little piece of the real. Burlington Vt: Ashgate, 2004. \u017di\u017eek&#8217;s position is that ideology primarily captures subjects at the level of their unconscious beliefs, and that it does this by structuring their access to jouissance (99). \u017di\u017eek proposes &#8230; that the answer to how one can still speak from &#8216;outside&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/10\/19\/sharpe-the-other-is-itself-divided-the-other-does-not-exist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;sharpe the Other is itself divided the Other does not exist&#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":[21,24,16,15,41,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jouissance","category-lacan","category-ontology","category-subjectivity","category-the-real","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","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=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4203,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/4203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}