\u017di\u017eek proposes as the properly political subject an “acephalous subject who assumes the position of the object” (Organs Without Bodies `76).<\/p>\n
In this move from desire to drive<\/strong>, he fundamentally alters the picture of a political subject as one who calculates an intervention to bring about the future it desires.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The “acephalous subject” does not function in this intentionalized mode of traditional political discourse: “the subject who acts is no longer a person but, precisely, an object<\/strong>.”\u00a0 That is, in his view, we must give up, once and for all, our sense of the political \u2014 the political act, the political domain, and the political collectivity\u00a0\u2014 as based on promise or calculation.<\/p>\n
The objet a<\/em>, the excessive part of the subject, is “the subject’s stand-in within the order of objectivity” (Organs w\/o Bodies 175).\u00a0 When the subject identifies directly with this excess, it becomes genuinely rebolutionary because it gains access to the register of the Real, the object.\u00a0 How?<\/p>\n
According to \u017di\u017eek, the identification with the object de-personalizes the subject, instituting a gap between its subjectivated individuation (all the little preferences and properties that make up our social identities) and its subject-ness, the “pure” subject that emerges as a function of the drive. (176).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u017di\u017eek proposes as the properly political subject an “acephalous subject who assumes the position of the object” (Organs Without Bodies `76). In this move from desire to drive, he fundamentally alters the picture of a political subject as one who calculates an intervention to bring about the future it desires.\u00a0 The “acephalous subject” does not … Continue reading “subject of desire”<\/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":[24,15,106,20],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-5689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lacan","category-subjectivity","category-the-act","category-zizek","tag-excessive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689","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=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5691,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions\/5691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}