{"id":8032,"date":"2011-06-16T18:05:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T23:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=8032"},"modified":"2011-06-17T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T20:56:30","slug":"abyss-of-the-others-desire-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2011\/06\/16\/abyss-of-the-others-desire-2\/","title":{"rendered":"abyss of the Other&#8217;s desire 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u017di\u017eek, S. <em>The Plague of Fantasies.<\/em> New York: Verso, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>The standard subject&#8217;s reaction to the <span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt;\">act<\/span> is that of <em>aphanasis<\/em>, of his\/her self-obliteration, not of heroically assuming it: when the awareness of the full consequences of &#8216;what I have just done&#8217; hits me, I want to disappear.\u00a0 At this precise point Lacan (and already Freud&#8217;s notion fo the death drive) parts with the Romantic ideology of a &#8216;demonic&#8217; self-destructive Will:<strong> the<span style=\"color: green; font-weight: bold;\"> death drive<\/span> is <em>not <\/em>a &#8216;will to die&#8217;, radical Evil is <em>not<\/em> a &#8216;diabolical&#8217; intention that seeks pleasure in inflicting pain on one&#8217;s neighbour <\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u017di\u017eek, S. The Plague of Fantasies. New York: Verso, 1997. The standard subject&#8217;s reaction to the act is that of aphanasis, of his\/her self-obliteration, not of heroically assuming it: when the awareness of the full consequences of &#8216;what I have just done&#8217; hits me, I want to disappear.\u00a0 At this precise point Lacan (and already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2011\/06\/16\/abyss-of-the-others-desire-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;abyss of the Other&#8217;s desire 3&#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":[125,38,41,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drive","category-ethics","category-the-real","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032","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=8032"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8034,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8032\/revisions\/8034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}