{"id":7348,"date":"2011-03-14T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T01:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2011-03-14T20:49:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T01:49:37","slug":"7348","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2011\/03\/14\/7348\/","title":{"rendered":"drive bibliography \u017di\u017eek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boyle, Kirk. \u201cThe Four Fundamental Concepts of Slavoj \u017di\u017eek\u2019s Psychoanalytic Marxism.\u201d\u00a0 International Journal of \u017di\u017eek Studies<\/em> Vol 2.1 (2008) 1-21.<\/p>\n

Whither drive<\/span> in \u017di\u017eek\u2019s conception of the Marxian parallax?<\/p>\n

What role might drive<\/span> play in a properly political \u201cintervention\u201d? The missing connection between drive’s<\/span> inherence to capitalism and the \u201cultimate parallax of the political economy\u201d in \u017di\u017eek\u2019s work proves frustrating, but we may broach two tentative conclusions.<\/p>\n

The location of drive<\/span> and desire with regards to capitalism seems to fall on either side of the political economy parallax, i.e. from the perspective of the economic Real<\/span>, drive<\/span> describes the self-propelling movement of the metaphysical dance of Capital. Desire<\/strong>, on the other hand, describes the same process of endless circulation but from the perspective of the libidinal economy of surplus-enjoyment and the symbolic order of consumer society.8<\/p>\n

Both sides of this parallax are economically and politically necessary: financial speculation ceases to exist if there is no hysterical consumer society; no understanding of the personal lure of commodities is possible without reference to the impersonal compulsion to engage in the endless circular movement of expanded self-reproduction.<\/p>\n

The distinction between drive<\/span> and desire<\/strong> also provides a gauge for evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to break the spell of global capitalism.<\/p>\n

\u017di\u017eek raises the possibility of resistance on the level of desire<\/strong> when he claims that critiques of capitalism from stable ethical positions appear to be the exception in the \u201ccarnivalized\u201d world of late capitalism (\u017di\u017eek 2007: 235). By harkening back to an ethics of moderation, for example, we might curtail the normal functioning of capitalism to self-revolutionize through the incorporation of ever new forms of surplus-enjoyment.<\/p>\n

If we opt out of enjoyment (through elective poverty, for example), do we not throw a wrench in the gears of capital\u2019s incessant circulation? Although resistance on the level of desire sounds feasible, it also smacks of a nostalgia for times that are irrecoverable on a large scale. Capitalism also has an uncanny ability to create new markets out of even the most heroic of bohemian efforts. The scope of a stable ethics to combat capital would be parochial at best, and \u017di\u017eek\u2019s interest lies with something more radically transformative.<\/p>\n

The kind of resistance \u017di\u017eek envisions would be as large in scale as Capital itself because it seeks to intervene on the level of drive<\/span>.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u017di\u017eek frames the question of the possibility of resisting the capitalist drive as follows: \u201chow are we to formulate the resistance to the economic logic of reproduction-through-excess?\u2026how, then, are we to revolutionize an order whose very principle is constant self-revolutionizing? This, perhaps, is the question today\u201d (\u017di\u017eek 2006b: 321, \u017di\u017eek 2007: 235).<\/p>\n

With a question big enough to be the question today comes no easy answers, only more questions. Does such a thing as a Leftist drive<\/span> exist? What would a form of resistance on the level of drive<\/span> look like? Where exactly would this form of resistance intervene?<\/p>\n

Can drive<\/span> fight drive<\/span>?<\/p>\n

Lacan, Jacques (1998a) Seminar IX: The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psychoanalysis. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: W.W. Norton and Company.
\nLacan, Jacques (1998b) Seminar XX: Encore. Trans. Bruce Fink. New York: W.W. Norton and Company.
\nLacan, Jacques (2006) \u00c9crits. Trans. Bruce Fink. New York: W.W. Norton and Company.<\/p>\n

\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj (1989) The Sublime Object of Ideology. New York: Verso.
\n\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj (1993) Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology. Durham: Duke.
\n\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj (1994) The Metastases of Enjoyment: On Women and Causality. London: Verso.
\n\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj (2000) The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology. New York: Verso.
\n\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj (2002) \u201cThe Interpassive Subject.\u201d The Symptom, 3. Available at: http:\/\/www.lacan.com\/interpassf.htm. Accessed Jan 29th 2008.
\n\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj (2005a) \u201cConcesso non Dato.\u201d Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Responses to Slavoj \u017di\u017eek. Eds. Geoff Bucher, Jason Glynos, and Matthew Sharpe. Burlington: Ashgate.
\n\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj (2005b) \u201cObjet a as Inherent Limit to Capitalism: On Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.\u201d Available at: http:\/\/www.lacan.com\/zizmultitude.htm. Accessed Jan 28th 2008.
\n\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj (2006a) How to Read Lacan. New York: W.W. Norton and Company.
\n\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj (2006b) The Parallax View. Cambridge: MIT.\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj (2007) \u201cWith Defenders Like These.\u201d The Truth of \u017di\u017eek. Eds. Paul Bowman and Richard Stamp. London: Continuum.
\n\u017di\u017eek, Slavoj and Glyn Daly (2004) Conversations With \u017di\u017eek. Cambridge: Polity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Boyle, Kirk. \u201cThe Four Fundamental Concepts of Slavoj \u017di\u017eek\u2019s Psychoanalytic Marxism.\u201d\u00a0 International Journal of \u017di\u017eek Studies Vol 2.1 (2008) 1-21. Whither drive in \u017di\u017eek\u2019s conception of the Marxian parallax? What role might drive play in a properly political \u201cintervention\u201d? The missing connection between drive’s inherence to capitalism and the \u201cultimate parallax of the political economy\u201d … Continue reading “drive bibliography \u017di\u017eek”<\/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":[111,125,24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desire","category-drive","category-lacan","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","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=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7364,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions\/7364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}