{"id":8560,"date":"2011-11-04T23:23:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T04:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=8560"},"modified":"2011-11-04T23:24:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T04:24:33","slug":"8560","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2011\/11\/04\/8560\/","title":{"rendered":"taking responsibility for excessive jouissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In arguing that the subject\u2019s relationship to itself changes as a consequence of symbolic divestiture, \u017di\u017eek promotes a conception of ethics that psychoanalytic theorists will recognize as Lacanian insofar as it depends upon an intrasubjective relationship. Lacan\u2019s statement that the only ethics proper to psychoanalysis involves the subject\u2019s relationship to its desire<strong> (\u201cdo not give way on your desire\u201d)<\/strong> explicitly contrasts both with the ethics of responsibility to the other extolled in Levinas and Derrida and with the \u201cservice of goods\u201d that underwrites utilitarian versions of ethics. While remaining committed to an intrasubjective version of ethics, \u017di\u017eek derives a somewhat different ethical stance from the later Lacanian theory of the sinthome.<\/p>\n<p>Decidedly, this is not the ethics of the \u201cservice of goods,\u201d the traumatic encounter with the impossible demand of the Other, some officious busy-ness in the lives of our neighbours, or adherence to the Golden Rule. Instead, <span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-weight: bold;\">the ethical stance requires taking responsibility for one\u2019s own excessive dimension and jouissance<\/span>. (Rothenberg, Excessive 194)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In arguing that the subject\u2019s relationship to itself changes as a consequence of symbolic divestiture, \u017di\u017eek promotes a conception of ethics that psychoanalytic theorists will recognize as Lacanian insofar as it depends upon an intrasubjective relationship. Lacan\u2019s statement that the only ethics proper to psychoanalysis involves the subject\u2019s relationship to its desire (\u201cdo not give &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2011\/11\/04\/8560\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;taking responsibility for excessive jouissance&#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":[38,24,123,106,20],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-8560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-lacan","category-sinthome","category-the-act","category-zizek","tag-excessive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560","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=8560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8562,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8560\/revisions\/8562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}