Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten
The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book XIV
Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-5095-6134-6
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
‘Logic of the fantasy’: the expression recurs throughout the Seminar as a leitmotif, yet not a single lesson is devoted to it; not even a briefly sustained development. Does this mean that the logic of the fantasy is here playing the role of some new fangled mirage? No it doesn’t, not if we can take on board how this logic is the very site at which Lacan’s comments converge, which is what I have sought to indicate by entitling the final chapter ‘The axiom of the fantasy’. It begins with him audaciously blending the mathematical Klein group and the Cartesian cogito, modified in such a way as to offer up the alternative, ‘Either I am not, or I am not thinking’. On this basis, Lacan summarises the course of an analysis in four phases. A further mathematico-psychoanalytic blend: the sexual act is illuminated by the light of the Golden number. What ensues is that ‘there is no sexual act’, this being the first trace of what was to become a pons asinorum: ‘there is no sexual relating’. The reader will also come across the invention of a ‘value of jouissance’, inspired by Marx, and will be surprised to see the big Other, the ‘locus of speech’, being newly defined as ‘the body’, the primordial locus of writing. A good many other gripping insights and constructions await this reader, if he is minded to follow the meandering, the stalling and the about-turns, along with advances and flashes of brilliance, an obstinate and profoundly honest thinking that, whenever it comes up against a stumbling block, never skirts around it but endeavours to turn it into a cornerstone. ‘Logic of the fantasy’: the expression recurs throughout the Seminar as a leitmotif, yet not a single lesson is devoted to it; not even a briefly sustained development. Does this mean that the logic of the fantasy is here playing the role of some new fangled mirage? No it doesn’t, not if we can take on board how this logic is the very site at which Lacan’s comments converge, which is what I have sought to indicate by entitling the final chapter ‘The axiom of the fantasy’. It begins with him audaciously blending the mathematical Klein group and the Cartesian cogito, modified in such a way as to offer up the alternative, ‘Either I am not, or I am not thinking’. On this basis, Lacan summarises the course of an analysis in four phases. A further mathematico-psychoanalytic blend: the sexual act is illuminated by the light of the Golden number. What ensues is that ‘there is no sexual act’, this being the first trace of what was to become a pons asinorum: ‘there is no sexual relating’. The reader will also come across the invention of a ‘value of jouissance’, inspired by Marx, and will be surprised to see the big Other, the ‘locus of speech’, being newly defined as ‘the body’, the primordial locus of writing. A good many other gripping insights and constructions await this reader, if he is minded to follow the meandering, the stalling and the about-turns, along with advances and flashes of brilliance, an obstinate and profoundly honest thinking that, whenever it comes up against a stumbling block, never skirts around it but endeavours to turn it into a cornerstone.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie
Weitere Infos & Material
ELEMENTS OF LOGIC I The promise of a logic II Russell’s paradox III Freud, logician IV From the Klein four-group to the Cogito V Interlude BUILDING THE LACAN GROUP VI The unconscious and the id VII From thinking to the unthinkable VIII I and a IX Alienation and repetition SUBJECTIFYING SEX X From sublimation to sexual act XI On the structure of sexual satisfaction in its relation to the subject XII Sexual satisfaction and sublimation XIII There is no sexual act XIV On enjoyment value THE ECONOMY OF FANTASY XV From truth to enjoyment XVI The Other is the body XVII From castration to the object XVIII Enjoyment obtains by the body alone XIX The question of enjoyment XX The sadist and the masochist XXI The axiom of fantasy Index ELEMENTS OF LOGIC I The promise of a logic II Russell’s paradox III Freud, logician IV From the Klein four-group to the Cogito V Interlude BUILDING THE LACAN GROUP VI The unconscious and the id VII From thinking to the unthinkable VIII I and a IX Alienation and repetition SUBJECTIFYING SEX X From sublimation to sexual act XI On the structure of sexual satisfaction in its relation to the subject XII Sexual satisfaction and sublimation XIII There is no sexual act XIV On enjoyment value THE ECONOMY OF FANTASY XV From truth to enjoyment XVI The Other is the body XVII From castration to the object XVIII Enjoyment obtains by the body alone XIX The question of enjoyment XX The sadist and the masochist XXI The axiom of fantasy Index
