{"id":9968,"date":"2012-11-24T01:54:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-24T06:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=9968"},"modified":"2012-11-24T01:55:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-24T06:55:55","slug":"descartes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2012\/11\/24\/descartes\/","title":{"rendered":"Descartes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wood, Kelsey. \u017di\u017eek A Reader’s Guide<\/em>.\u00a0 Wiley\/Blackwell. 2012.<\/p>\n

Descartes’ effort to erase the entirety of reality and to start with a clean slate, … In the Ticklish Subject<\/em>, \u017di\u017eek showed the functional role of the Caresian cogito<\/em> (“I think, therefore I exist”) within the broader project of methodic doubt and developed Lacan’s insight that the subject of psychoanalysis is none other than Descartes’ cogito<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u017di\u017eek disclosed the “empty place” of Lacanian subjectivity<\/strong> as a pure structural function that emerges only through a\u00a0withdrawal from one’s substantial identity<\/strong>.\u00a0 This means that true subjectivity arises only through encountering the Real, and through the subsequent disintegration of the self that had been constituted within a communal universe of meaning.<\/span><\/p>\n

In other words, as opposed to the “self” produced by the process of ideological subjectivization, the subject as such involves the hysterical questioning<\/em> of the feminine subject.\u00a0 To summarize, The Ticklish Subject<\/em> articulated and clarified Lacan’s account of subjectivity in order to assert the emancipatory potential o f the subject against capitalist ideology. 241<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wood, Kelsey. \u017di\u017eek A Reader’s Guide.\u00a0 Wiley\/Blackwell. 2012. Descartes’ effort to erase the entirety of reality and to start with a clean slate, … In the Ticklish Subject, \u017di\u017eek showed the functional role of the Caresian cogito (“I think, therefore I exist”) within the broader project of methodic doubt and developed Lacan’s insight that the … Continue reading “Descartes”<\/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":[76,15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sub-destitute","category-subjectivity","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968","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=9968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9971,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9968\/revisions\/9971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}