{"id":4773,"date":"2010-01-28T18:34:07","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2011-01-16T16:01:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-16T20:01:38","slug":"rothenberg-excess-psychoanalysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/01\/28\/rothenberg-excess-psychoanalysis\/","title":{"rendered":"rothenberg excess psychoanalysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rothenberg, Molly Anne. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Excessive Subject<\/span>. Cambridge UK: Polity Press, 2010.\u00a0 Print.<\/p>\n<p>The theorizing of an <strong>excess<\/strong> that sticks to and flows from all signification (whether in speech or in bodily gesture) is the hallmark of a psychoanalytic approach. The excess is inescapable, irremediable, and unsymbolizable: in Lacanian parlance <strong>it subsists in the register of the Real<\/strong> (106).<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude42 Rothenberg continually hammers Butler over the fact that Butler totally misunderstands the nature of this excess.\u00a0 Butler&#8217;s excess is taken up in a bodily way and read off transparently, as if meaning was transparent.\u00a0 For R. this excess is irresolvibly non-transparent, beguiling even.\u00a0 &#8220;(Butler) uses the trappings and terminology of psychoanalysis but spectacularly fails to appreciate precisely <strong>what distinguishes psychoanalysis from Foucaultianism<\/strong> \u2014 the theorization of the <strong>dimension of excess inherent in every speech act<\/strong>.\u00a0 This failure inflects her version of subject formation: in disavowing the extimate cause, Butler leaves herself with no way to theorize the subject as a site of excess, as a M\u00f6bius subject&#8221; (107).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rothenberg, Molly Anne. The Excessive Subject. Cambridge UK: Polity Press, 2010.\u00a0 Print. The theorizing of an excess that sticks to and flows from all signification (whether in speech or in bodily gesture) is the hallmark of a psychoanalytic approach. The excess is inescapable, irremediable, and unsymbolizable: in Lacanian parlance it subsists in the register of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/01\/28\/rothenberg-excess-psychoanalysis\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rothenberg excess psychoanalysis&#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":[24,90,15,41],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lacan","category-resistance","category-subjectivity","category-the-real","tag-excessive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773","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=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4775,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions\/4775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}