Rothenberg’s subject of excess is about EXCESS, “We are accustomed to hearing a great deal about the “subject of lack” in contemporary theory, yet the argument I have been exploring suggests that the subject of lack should be understood as a subject of excess, that is, as a subject to which excess ineradicably adheres.<\/p>\n
The fact that one has become meaningful to others \u2014i.e. been registered in the Symbolic\u2014 does not mean that one actually knows what one means to others (43).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
You have only two choices: either subjectivity with loss of immediacy, or non-subjecthood.\u00a0 Again, the loss of immediacy does not result in a lack: it generates an excess, an excess of meaningfulness that is not in the control of the subject<\/strong> (44).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rothenberg’s subject of excess is about EXCESS, “We are accustomed to hearing a great deal about the “subject of lack” in contemporary theory, yet the argument I have been exploring suggests that the subject of lack should be understood as a subject of excess, that is, as a subject to which excess ineradicably adheres. The … Continue reading “rothenberg subject* is not about lack but excess”<\/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":[78],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","tag-excessive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742","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=4742"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4745,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4742\/revisions\/4745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}