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Lacanian Ink 24/25

The Wooster Press, 2005

Today's politics is more and more the politics of jouissance, concerned with the ways of soliciting or controlling and regulating jouissance. Is the entirity of opposition between the liberal/tolerant West and fundamentalist Islam not condensed in the opposition between, on the one side, a woman's right to free sexuality, including the freedom to expose herself and disturb man, and, on the other side, the desperate male attempts to keep under ...

Lacanian Ink 20 (Spring 2002, Voyeurism)
Slavoj Zizek

The Wooster Press, 2002

Lacanian Ink 21
Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zizek

The Wooster Press, 2003

Alain Badiou elaborates on Lacan's statement that "love comes to supplement the lack of sexual rapport. Formally, one must determine what a function of supplement is, even up to the point at which a rapport cannot be written. Ontologically, one accepts that if sexual rapport cannot be written, if it is non-existent as an effect of structure, then love itself as supplement can only arrive by chance. The event that must be registered as love is ...

Lacanian Ink 19
Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou

The Wooster Press, 2001

Alain Badiou's numerate "The Political..." to infinity, and ordain it in three groups: "that of the situation; that, indeterminate, of the state of the situation; that of the prescription, which interrupts indetermination and permits the State distance." What singularizes the prescription as political procedure is that it enables the autonomy of the State. Besides "Who needs you for terrorizing me? I can do it myself!" argues Slavoj Zizek when ...

Lacanian Ink 17

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Jacques-Alain Miller

The Wooster Press, 2000

Extremely insightful
Lacanian Ink provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the work of French psychoanalyst-philosopher Jacques Lacan. The essays by authors as diverse as Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Jacques -Alain Miller, David Hayman and Juliet Flower-McCannell as well as art critics such as Raphael Rubinstein, David Ebony and Josefina Ayerza, and feminist-theorists Peggy Phelan, Jan Avgikos and Joan ...

Lacanian Ink 13: The Pairing-Symptom
Slavoj Zizek, Richard Foreman

The Wooster Press, 1998

In "Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple," Slavoj Zizek argues that of all the couples in modern thought (Freud and Lacan, Marx and Lenin) Kant and Sade is perhaps the most problematic: "the statement 'Kant IS Sade' is the 'infinite judgement' of modern ethics, positing the sign of equation between the two radical opposites, asserting that the sublime disinteresed ethical attitude is somehow identical to, or overlaps with, the unrestrained indulgence ...

Lacanian Ink 22
Slavoj Zizek

The Wooster Press, 2003

Slavoj Zizek addresses the Platonic reaction of the reader "...that between the limited view of us, mortals, and the view of the big Other which sees everything!" Only to argue against its own projection. "Vertigo is the ultimate anti-Platonic film, a systematic materialist undermining of the Platonic project, akin to what Deleuze does in the Appendix to The Logic of Sense." With Alain Badiou an obscure disaster ended the truth of the state. "It ...

Lacanian Ink 2

The Wooster Press, 1991

If Lacanian Ink is what it is called lalangue, then who is t be incorporated in lalangue. In "Why does a letter always arrive at its destination?" Slavoj Zizek argues that "the call arrives at its destination in me...I don't recognize myself in it because I'm its addressee - I become its addressee the moment I recognize myself in it."

Lacanian Ink 18
Jacques-Alain Miller

The Wooster Press, 2001

Lacanian Ink 5

The Wooster Press, 1992

Ethics in Psychoanalysis: One may change the places of the letters. There are always the same places and letters, yet there are rules cosifying both, these letters and these places. Inscribed, places and letters interact. Discourse becomes formalized; inside this artificial formalization an element of impossibility halt specific yields. This element basically shapes structure itself.

Lacanian Ink 3

The Wooster Press, 1991

Femininity, the sexual, hysteria. The beginning of analysis should hysterize the subject. Hence, hysterical or not, the obliged path will set forth division; Supposed Knowledge incarnates the Other and the subject appears in this Other.

Lacanian Ink 4

The Wooster Press, 1991

Reflections on the Formal Envelope of the Symptom: there is in the symptom a message, and there is the symptom Jouissance. Already for the message "emitted by the Other in its language" raises an hysteric subject. Then its Jouissance might already be found in the fact as much as in the way or "form" of the enunciation itself. Form is what may be emptied.

Lacanian Ink 29 - Otherness
Slavoj Zizek - Alain Badiou - Josefina Ayerza - Jacques-Alain Miller

The Wooster Press, 2007

The paradoxical figure of the individual who stands for the big Other. One should not think primarily of the leader-figures who directly embody/personify their community (king, president, master), but, rather, of the more mysterious figures of protectors of appearances. Today, it seems that appearances no longer have to be protected. We all know the innocent child from Andersen's "The Emperors New Clothes" who publicly proclaims the fact that ...

Lacanian Ink 28 - Profane Illuminations
Slavoj Zizek - Alain Badiou

The Wooster Press, 2006

It was already Franz Kafka who articulated this crisis of paternal authority in all its ambiguity; no wonder that the first impression one gets in reading Kafka's letter to his father is that there is something missing in it-the final twist along the lines of the parable on the Door of the Law ("This door was here only for you..."): the father's display of terror and rage is here only for you, you are invested in it, sustaining it... One can ...

Lacanian Ink 31 - Sacrosanct Depression
Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, ...

The Wooster Press, 2008

In our Politically Correct times, it is fashionable to discern homosexuality in the musical texture of some classic composers and thus redeem them - there are, for example, totally unconvincing and ridiculous readings of Schubert: he must have been gay, because his music is non-aggressive/penetrative/phallic, full of soft passages... In the case of Eugene Onegin, however, we stand on a much more firm ground. In the Fall of 1876 Tchaikovsky ...

Lacanian Ink 30 - Objet a
Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, ...

The Wooster Press, 2007

Is objet a, insofar as it lacks its mirror image, the vampiric object (vampires, as we know, do not generate their image in a mirror)? It may seem so: are vampires not versions of undead partial objects? However, perhaps, the exact opposite is more appropriate as an image of objet a: when we look at a thing directly, in reality, we don t see it - this it only appears when we look at the thing s mirror image, as if there is, in the mirror ...

Lacanian Ink 7

The Wooster Press, 1993

Stuart Schneiderman introduces a hero who evidences a major mind-body problem: his mind, detaching from the body, is in turn split. This skirmish brings up the figures of the detective and the criminal, set against each other, thus making a moral quest; now the problem affects the social group, now it structures the body politic. Schneiderman's "mind containing the wisdom of ages" meets Slavoj Zizek's "casual chain of reasons provided by ...

Lacanian Ink 27 - The Names-of-the-Father
Slavoj Zizek - Alain Badiou

The Wooster Press, 2006

When, in his "Rapport de Rome", Lacan refers to Hegel’s “Absolute Knowing,” one should read closely his indications of how he conceives this identification of the analyst with the Hegelian master, and not succumb to the temptation of quickly retranslating the “Absolute Knowing” into the accomplished symbolization. For Lacan, the analyst stands for the Hegelian master, embodiment of “Absolute Knowing,” insofar as he renounces all enforcing ...

Lacanian Ink 26 - Anxiety
Slavoj Zizek - Jacques-Alain Miller

The Wooster Press, 2005

"There is no final solution on the horizon today, Capital is here to stay, all we can hope for is a temporary truce. That is to say, undoubtedly worse that this deadlock would have been a pseudo Deleuzian celebration of the successful revolt of the multitude. The hard kernel of today's global capitalist universe, its true Master Signifier is Democracy. And the latest statements of Negri and Hardt are a kind of unexpected confirmation of Alain ...

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