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Desire and its Interpretation - The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VI (Hardcover, Book Vi)
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Desire and its Interpretation - The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VI (Hardcover, Book Vi)
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What does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a
biological function; that it is not correlated with a natural
object; and that its object is fantasized. Because of this, desire
is extravagant. It cannot be grasped by those who might try to
master it. It plays tricks on them. Yet if it is not recognized, it
produces symptoms. In psychoanalysis, the goal is to
interpret--that is, to read--the message regarding desire that is
harbored within the symptom. Although desire upsets us, it also
inspires us to invent artifices that can serve us as a compass. An
animal species has a single natural compass. Human beings, on the
other hand, have multiple compasses: signifying montages and
discourses. They tell you what to do: how to think, how to enjoy,
and how to reproduce. Yet each person's fantasy remains irreducible
to shared ideals. Up until recently, all of our compasses, no
matter how varied, pointed in the same direction: toward the
Father. We considered the patriarch to be an anthropological
invariant. His decline accelerated owing to increasing equality,
the growth of capitalism, and the ever-greater domination of
technology. We have reached the end of the Father Age. Another
discourse is in the process of taking the former's place. It
champions innovation over tradition; networks over hierarchies; the
draw of the future over the weight of the past; femininity over
virility. Where there had previously been a fixed order,
transformational flows constantly push back any and all limits.
Freud was a product of the Father Age. He did a great deal to save
it. The Catholic Church finally realized this. Lacan followed the
way paved by Freud, but it led him to posit that the father is a
symptom. He demonstrates that here using Hamlet as an example. What
people have latched onto about Lacan's work--his formalization of
the Oedipus complex and his emphasis on the Name-of-the-Father--was
merely his point of departure. Seminar VI already revises this: the
Oedipus complex is not the only solution to desire, it is merely a
normalized form thereof; it is, moreover, a pathogenic form; it
does not exhaustively explain desire's course. Hence the eulogy of
perversion with which this seminar ends: Lacan views perversion
here as a rebellion against the identifications that assure the
maintenance of social routines. This Seminar predicted "the
revamping of formally established conformisms and even their
explosion." We have reached that point. Lacan is talking about us.
General
Imprint: |
Polity Press
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
May 2019 |
Authors: |
Jacques Lacan
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Translators: |
Bruce Fink
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 48mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
568 |
Edition: |
Book Vi |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-5095-0027-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Psychology >
General
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LSN: |
1-5095-0027-8 |
Barcode: |
9781509500277 |
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