Campbell, Kirsten. Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology. Florence, KY, USA: Routledge, 2004. p 56.<\/p>\n
In the later Lacanian epistemology, \u2018knowledge\u2019 is not only a relation of subject to object, but also of subject to subject. Lacan argues that the four discourses represent different forms of the social bond. The discourses that produce different forms of intersubjectivity also produce different forms of knowledge. In this way, the later Lacanian account of knowledge moves between subjective and intersubjective structures.<\/p>\n
Because Lacan\u2019s model describes not only the relation of subject to object, but also the relation of subjects, discourses of knowledge reveal the relation of the knower to its others. The Lacanian model thereby unfolds the epistemological relation of knowing subject, signifier and known object to include the relation of the knowing subject to other subjects.<\/p>\n
The later Lacanian epistemology is a model of knowledge that posits it as a social practice in the sense that it is the product of the discursive social link. This model describes knowing as contingent upon social bonds which enable the subject to give meaning to, and make sense of, its world. It articulates discourses that structure how the knowing subject knows the world. To conceive knowledge in this way posits it as contingent upon our social bonds.<\/strong><\/p>\n For this reason, Lacan conceives knowledge or savoir as that which is inscribed in the social link (S20: 73). Lacanian epistemology thus provides an account of the intersubjective production of knowledge, and of knowing as a socially mediated act.<\/strong> Lacan\u2019s theory of the four discourses is far from being an elaborated epistemology. For example, Lacan does not indicate whether the discourses are necessarily interlinked or whether they can operate as explanatory devices without reference to each other. Moreover, Lacan does not reveal why it is four (and only four) discourses that comprise the fundamental social bonds. Lacan argues that these four discourses represent fundamental social bonds within the psychoanalytic field and possible forms of psychoanalytic knowledge. However, he does not explain why these discourses of the master, the hysteric, the university and the psychoanalyst function as foundational social links, nor why he has chosen these four discourses out of all possible social discourses.<\/p>\n Despite these omissions, the later epistemological work provides a new and important means of understanding the production of knowledge. Lacanian epistemology analyses knowledge as a discursive practice that is the product of the operation of particular signifying structures. Knowledge is also a social practice, in that the discursive social link produces it. In Lacan\u2019s account, knowledge is understood as a discursive social practice. It does not reduce knowledge to the status of a proposition (as in many philosophical theories) nor to a social object (as in many sociological accounts). Rather, Lacanian epistemology offers feminist epistemology a theoretical apparatus to analyse the relation between knowledge, subjectivity and sociality. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Campbell, Kirsten. Jacques Lacan and Feminist Epistemology. Florence, KY, USA: Routledge, 2004. p 56. In the later Lacanian epistemology, \u2018knowledge\u2019 is not only a relation of subject to object, but also of subject to subject. Lacan argues that the four discourses represent different forms of the social bond. The discourses that produce different forms of … Continue reading “campbell 4 discourses pt 4.”<\/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":[124,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4-discourses","category-lacan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","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=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4252,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}