{"id":4731,"date":"2010-01-27T13:18:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2011-01-16T16:27:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T20:27:26","slug":"4731","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/01\/27\/4731\/","title":{"rendered":"rothenberg subject of excess"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We must be careful here, however. the &#8220;excess&#8217; attending signification is not merely the fact that the signifying system never closes in on a signified, as Derrida would have it. Rather, Lacan is working out the consequences of the fact that every utterance has two parts.\u00a0 One part consists of <strong>the content of what is said<\/strong> &#8230; <strong>the level of the enunciated<\/strong>. The other part consists of the fact <strong><em>that <\/em>something<em> <\/em>is being said, level of the enunciation<\/strong>. 41<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The gap between these two levels is where the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">subject as excess<\/span> is located.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In other words, <strong>excess arises not because the signifier does not have a stable signified<\/strong>, nor because the signifier as materiality can be taken up and used (even nonsensically) in ever-changing contexts. Rather, <strong>the excess is located at the point where the subject is split between the level of enunciation and the level of the enunciated. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Where excess emerges in the utterance is also the point at which the speaking subject appears.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong> The excess in the utterance corresponds to the excess in the subject, that <strong>minimal self-difference<\/strong> that makes a subject (which, after all, is a meaningful object), emerge from the state of being (42).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We must be careful here, however. the &#8220;excess&#8217; attending signification is not merely the fact that the signifying system never closes in on a signified, as Derrida would have it. Rather, Lacan is working out the consequences of the fact that every utterance has two parts.\u00a0 One part consists of the content of what is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/01\/27\/4731\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rothenberg subject of excess&#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":[24,15],"tags":[143,109],"class_list":["post-4731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lacan","category-subjectivity","tag-excessive","tag-whoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731","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=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6223,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions\/6223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}