Rothenberg, Molly Anne. The Excessive Subject. Cambridge UK: Polity Press, 2010.<\/p>\n
Warning: I’m about to spoil the first 30 pages of Rothenberg’s book. They’re page turners so my apologies, but I would like to set up her discussion of ‘negation’ through her absolutely fantastic discussion of Badiou’s notion of the empty set { }<\/strong><\/p>\n Here is one of many scintillating quotes I could draw upon from her book:<\/p>\n { }<\/strong> The simple addition of a formal property, the empty set, which has no substance in and of itself, negates the state of sheer being<\/strong> that attends each thing-as-such. It does so by establishing a minimal point of orientation<\/strong> \u2014 like making a small cut in a sheet of paper. Once this cut is added, then “things” can bear some minimal relation to each other \u2014 they all have a relation to this minimal point of orientation. This “cut” of the empty set creates a vector, and with this stroke, things precipitate into a world of identities, properties and relationships \u2014 as objects (33).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \ud83d\ude42 Now that is an awesome way of putting it.\u00a0\u00a0 What Rothenberg is getting at is this whole idea of a determinate negation: <\/em>things become objects, only through a cut, a negation that allows them to be placed in a relationship to another.\u00a0 If this sounds abstract, Rothenberg comes down to earth a bit later when she concretizes this concept by explicating it in conjunction with the Nom-du-P\u00e8re<\/em>.\u00a0 This is a standard Lacanian move that locates the child’s entry into language, the ‘cut’ that vaults it into the ‘defiles of the signifier’.\u00a0 Rothenberg is setting up her argument which consists in a very complex but fascinating and unique interpretation of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory which will allow her to argue for a totally new and innovative way in which to view the ‘social’ or ‘social field’ as she prefers to call it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rothenberg, Molly Anne. The Excessive Subject. Cambridge UK: Polity Press, 2010. Warning: I’m about to spoil the first 30 pages of Rothenberg’s book. They’re page turners so my apologies, but I would like to set up her discussion of ‘negation’ through her absolutely fantastic discussion of Badiou’s notion of the empty set { } Here … Continue reading “rothenberg empty set { }”<\/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":[24,15],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-4704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lacan","category-subjectivity","tag-excessive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704","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=4704"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6228,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4704\/revisions\/6228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}