Starting in the 14th seminar of 1966-1967 … Lacan distinguishes between acting out and the act proper.<\/p>\n
An act is an action that conjures into existence a signifying structure into which desire then, after the (f)act inscribes itself.\u00a0 The subject as a desiring being comes into existence in the wake of the act, instead of the act reflecting a previously present form of subjectivity.\u00a0 Lacan in the 14th seminar describes an act as a gesture of symbolization in which the subject is equivalent to the signifiers mobilized by this gesture; and he proceeds to add here that a shift of Symbolic surfaces occurs in a genuine act, that a “mutuation” of the subject<\/strong> transpires through such a deed … after passing through a “true act” the subject emerges transformed that this authentic gesture modifies the very configuration of subjectivity<\/span>.\u00a0 Lacan,SXIV\u00a0 2\/15\/67 . Johnston 147 Lacan,SXIV\u00a0 2\/15\/67 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Starting in the 14th seminar of 1966-1967 … Lacan distinguishes between acting out and the act proper. An act is an action that conjures into existence a signifying structure into which desire then, after the (f)act inscribes itself.\u00a0 The subject as a desiring being comes into existence in the wake of the act, instead of … Continue reading “act”<\/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":[24,106,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lacan","category-the-act","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642","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=9642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9644,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions\/9644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}