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The Not-Two - Logic and God in Lacan (Paperback)
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The Not-Two - Logic and God in Lacan (Paperback)
Series: Short Circuits
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A philosophical examination of the treatment of logic and God in
Lacan's later psychoanalytic theory. In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa
examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacan's later work.
Chiesa draws for the most part from Lacan's Seminars of the early
1970s, as they revolve around the axiom "There is no sexual
relationship." Chiesa provides both a close reading of Lacan's
effort to formalize sexual difference as incompleteness and an
assessment of its broader implications for philosophical realism
and materialism. Chiesa argues that "There is no sexual
relationship" is for Lacan empirically and historically
circumscribed by psychoanalysis, yet self-evident in our everyday
lives. Lacan believed that we have sex because we love, and that
love is a desire to be One in face of the absence of the sexual
relationship. Love presupposes a real "not-two." The not-two
condenses the idea that our love and sex lives are dictated by the
impossibility of fusing man's contradictory being with the heteros
of woman as a fundamentally uncountable Other. Sexual liaisons are
sustained by a transcendental logic, the so-called phallic function
that attempts to overcome this impossibility. Chiesa also focuses
on Lacan's critical dialogue with modern science and formal logic,
as well as his dismantling of sexuality as considered by mainstream
biological discourse. Developing a new logic of sexuation based on
incompleteness requires the relinquishing of any alleged logos of
life and any teleological evolution. For Lacan, the truth of
incompleteness as approached psychoanalytically through sexuality
would allow us to go further in debunking traditional onto-theology
and replace it with a "para-ontology" yet to be developed. Given
the truth of incompleteness, Chiesa asks, can we think such a truth
in itself without turning incompleteness into another truth about
truth, that is, into yet another figure of God as absolute being?
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