{"id":6645,"date":"2011-02-14T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T22:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=6645"},"modified":"2011-02-14T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T22:01:14","slug":"desire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2011\/02\/14\/desire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"desire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Belsey, Catherine. Culture and the Real : Theorizing Cultural Criticism. <\/em>2005
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Lacan sees the void that architecture surrounds as the place of the lost object in the inextricable real, impossible to symbolize and equally impossible to forget. The Thing<\/strong>, the object of the drive, constructed retroactively as forbidden, leaves a hole in what it is possible to signify, and can be represented only by emptines<\/strong>s.<\/p>\n

But its loss remains a source of dissatisfaction for the organism-in-culture which is the human being, and it is this structural discontent that gives rise to desire<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Desire <\/strong>in Lacan is a desire for nothing nameable, but it finds stand-ins, often a succession of them, sutured into place as love-objects, in the course of most individual lives. To be united with the Thing, even if it were possible, would be to surrender our existence as subjects, dissolving into pure absence. We need, therefore, to keep our distance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Architecture both invokes and circumscribes the void which is the memorial to the lost real. Enclosing emptiness, surrounding it with a substantial materiality that is shaped, styled and decorated according to taste, architecture thus reaffirms the power of culture to keep the object of the drive in its place. Much like tombs, then, but on a larger scale than most of them, grand buildings at once allude to loss and contain it, render it present and absent at the same time. They are in consequence places of desire.<\/p>\n

Art, which includes architecture, of course, neither delineates the real, nor acts as a substitute for it, but alludes at the level of the signifier to the loss of the real that is the cause of discontent in the signifying subject. All art, then, is a place of desire. We may assume that Mr Darcy\u2019s (Pride and Prejudice) portrait owes nothing to the Baroque, and shows as much restraint as his house. Nevertheless, it is as a signifying surface<\/strong> that the painting arrests Elizabeth, and softens her feelings towards him.\u00a0 86<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Belsey, Catherine. Culture and the Real : Theorizing Cultural Criticism. 2005 Lacan sees the void that architecture surrounds as the place of the lost object in the inextricable real, impossible to symbolize and equally impossible to forget. The Thing, the object of the drive, constructed retroactively as forbidden, leaves a hole in what it is … Continue reading “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":[111,125,24,40,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desire","category-drive","category-lacan","category-lack","category-the-real"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645","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=6645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6646,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6645\/revisions\/6646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}