{"id":5695,"date":"2010-08-17T16:18:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T20:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=5695"},"modified":"2011-11-04T23:32:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T04:32:58","slug":"5695","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2010\/08\/17\/5695\/","title":{"rendered":"subject of the drive and the universal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rothenberg, Molly. The Excessive Subject<\/em>. Malden, M.A. : Politiy Press, 2010.<\/p>\n

As long as we are fixated \u2014 as happens in multiculturalism and identity politics \u2014 on the symbolic identifiers of our personal identities, we obscure the link between the subject and the drive<\/span> as the true engine of the subject’s existence. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Molly isn’t big on ‘subject of desire’<\/strong><\/span>
\nFor when we focus on the symbolic dimension of identity, we are conceiving of the subject as a subject of desire, perpetually seeking to overcome its lack by finding its object of desire.\u00a0 Any political action founded on this premise dooms the actors to a futile search for a utopia<\/strong> which, of necessity, must always be deferred (176).<\/p>\n

In \u017di\u017eek’s view, the political meaning of one’s acts has nothing to do with one’s “sincerity or hypocrisy” \u2014 that is, one’s “subjective self-experience” is irrelevant to the objective truth of one’s actions. Rather, the subject of the drive<\/strong> institutes a gap between itself and its symbolic subjective dimension<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The subject’s identification with <\/strong>objet a<\/strong> <\/em>re-casts it, not as a set of symbolic properties, but as connected directly to the order of objectivity<\/strong>.\u00a0 Introducing a distance towards one’s own symbolic identity puts one in a position to act in an “objective-ethical” way<\/strong> (OWB 182).<\/p>\n

Presumably, it is this link to the objective that makes solidarity possible.\u00a0 The manifold differences or symbolic properties of individuals move to the background, while each subject, as identified with the object of the drive, finds its way to the objective order<\/strong>, the only terrain on which meaningful change can occur. Solidarity, then, emerges not from intersubjective relations but rather from the relations of subjects purified of their symbolic identities, subjects who meet on the ground of objectivity, as objects<\/strong> (177).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rothenberg, Molly. The Excessive Subject. Malden, M.A. : Politiy Press, 2010. As long as we are fixated \u2014 as happens in multiculturalism and identity politics \u2014 on the symbolic identifiers of our personal identities, we obscure the link between the subject and the drive as the true engine of the subject’s existence. Molly isn’t big … Continue reading “subject of the drive and the universal”<\/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":[125,24,72,123,15,106,41,20],"tags":[143,109],"class_list":["post-5695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drive","category-lacan","category-objet-a","category-sinthome","category-subjectivity","category-the-act","category-the-real","category-zizek","tag-excessive","tag-whoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695","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=5695"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5695\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}