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by Alejandra Glaze
Lacan, the policy ... contains some discussions on the left Lacanian and just some notes and letters leading up to For a Lacanian left ... , après-coup that lets you see how that concept was being developed in George German, and how they came up with something so controversial as to be Lacanian would be left. In that sense, the book that precedes this, opened a path and a policy direction for psychoanalysis and for psychoanalysis in politics. Hence, in both German emphasize the dots, something to go ...
Now, what to say about this new book that logically precedes the former. I propose to consider the concept of left Lacanian in order to interest readers in their history, it is not possible to read one without the other, hence both will be traversed in this presentation.
The originality of expression left Lacanian requires putting into consideration. We suppose that goes without saying that being a leftist is to be Lacanian Lacanian be or be left. So this is quite controversial. A German Jorge likes to be controversial. So both titles, I guess ...
But why is left with Lacanian . First question to be answered Jorge German. Just say a few issues that guided me regard to understanding this controversial speech, which raised some dust ... I can not forbear here to mark this controversy.
left Whenever it comes, there are two recurrent terms in any political discourse, whether as a barricade or philosophical hegemony and emancipation . And those are the two words shade into both books are discussed and conclusions that are drawn abundant, using references such as Marx, Hegel, Heidegger, and of course Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Badiou and Laclau. But the interesting thing is that it is from psychoanalysis that thinks.
I would like a proposal from Laclau that begins his book Debates and fighting "For a new horizon of politics and states as follows:" Making political thinkable again. " That is what Lacan , the policy ... , rethinking policy again from the internal margins of psychoanalysis. And that is for me the new of that thinking. It is precisely with psychoanalysis, and more specifically to Lacan, who tries to rethink the current political philosophy, again.
And here's the first question, how Jorge German conceived the concept of Lacanian left, a strange paradox of political philosophy, this time left, which is being renovated by the hand of Lacanian theory, when Lacan provenance can not be said that is just the left. It is definitely an operation of psychoanalysis based on a policy and ethics against the grain of the discourse of the period, the same E. Laclau defines the conversation that closes the previous book: "... psychoanalysis has an ontological dimension that simply adjust all our making subjectivity. "
But the originality that introduces Jorge Laclau German is something that seems to skip the real thing, based on a definition more in keeping with the Lacanian orientation, not based on the absence or lack of significance (significant gaps), but with that real introducing the repetition compulsion and the formations of their own enjoyment of the symptoms that always underlie the constitution of the subject. And where the ontology of the subject is actually a preontología in the Lacanian sense, an ontology of holes, failed, set against a real contingently impossible to capture, which can never be reabsorbed by rhetoric or by any discursive construction, the pair taking contingency-relevant failure, which allows a definition of the event in terms of "contingent interruption of the impossible", even the political event, as the result of the meeting contingent on language. A real always unjust and it gets "always at the wrong time" (p. 141). Thus German discursive reality proposes a temporary suspension of the impossibility, first difference between the political and policy event, located on the side of the ideals of the faces, the master discourse.
But reality poses any more consistent and hegemonic that this should be considered as final. Such as capitalism. New definition of being a leftist: "Being left means to emphasize the contingent nature of historical reality of capitalism," not to declare the eternal principle of capitalist domination, "which appears as a new relationship between subjectivity and modes enjoy that complicate the subject's existence in the world.
is what leads him to say that if sex is impossible, it is also society as such, since it can not be reduced to cluster weblinks society that make a community, where the subject must take an unfathomable decision where the structure plays with the "displacement" (a term he takes from Laclau) which is always open a distance between the undecidable and the moment of decision . Is put back into play the value of the decision, "when taken from a fund undecidable and without guarantees," not covered in the field of utilitarian calculus, which goes against the cynicism of "every face" of the time, cynicism that destroys and weakens the social bond dissolves this bond leading to the expression of Lacan: "There are social symptom where there is no social bond" (p. 134), opening the door to upset current in culture. A question about the place of desire "when the time of the technique has caught the whole plot of objects by a desire to enjoy."
In "Presence of Lacan, Derrida and the ghosts of history", J. German introduces the concept of "artifact", which places a point of great debate in our country today, a neologism that names the media as a hegemonic structure, intervening in the composition of the event, establishing a "semblantización the world" in a beautification consequences we are living, which leads the emptiness of posturing, pretense and the world of the scene (the "bring everything to the image" of Heidegger).
remembered a phrase from Lacan in Seminar 7: "The need and reason are harmonized in the law, but each is left to the whim of the selfishness of their needs, to anarchy, materialism. Marx aspires to a state where human emancipation not alone, as he expresses himself, there will be political, but really, where the man was found with respect to its own organization, a non-alienated relationship "add, speaks of a utopia emancipatory, where what is it domination of the subject in its own constitution, structural, which means it can not give himself his own representation.
German places the time of hegemony as a suture, a nomination that belong to the logic of the signifier. That is, in this vacuum of meaning, irreducible (those significant gaps referred to Laclau), the real enjoyment of the significant changes the game, and this line defines the individual neoliberal (and not use the term subject to it) as one that "consistently appears in consumer autism, there can be terminated on itself, and there, there, is where political practice, including psychoanalysis can intervene.
Here, in "Solitude: Common," the first article that opens this book, it presents what in Lacanian For a left ... is a precise statement: "... poverty is not deprivation material needs to be alone but with the added benefit compared to the eclipse of the symbolic "(p. 24). He adds in the book: "To be solar with 'badges' to freeze the subject in an ideology of pleasure."
But back to the question that began this presentation: What is a leftist? Jorge German shows us in this epic new book how a new idea, an idea that far from being finished and give a being to subject left, stands in relation to something unavoidable that has to do with the subjective constitution, which showed ontological hole is absorbed in the reality. In the same vein, the relationship between fantasy and ideology tells us about what this term means and shaping the reality of the subject, which, paradoxically, takes the value of absolute ignorance, authorized the subject based on the significant master (ideal) and the objects of the drive that had to dismiss to gain some consistency. And against the vulgar notion that somehow despises ideology, argues that "the 'ideology' returns at all, sometimes even through the use of Lacanian formulas that are leaving as sediment type of argument inspired a new style of conservatism secular, or in a lucid cynicism or ironic relativism "(p. 19).
In "Reviews of education", J. Lacan says as follows: "At that point you only have utilitarian man, if he has an even that puppet, one finds pleasure in his fiction. [...] For the fiction seems clear because all philosophy enunciated in fact be placeable as ideology, ie corresponding to a social privilege. " German defines ideology as "the way the game plays a ghost out of the analytic experience, as the closing of the unconscious from the inside, or as a ghost with no possible construction."
But the strongest hypothesis to follow along the conversations, notes and writings of both books in relation to what J. German defined as left is what it states as follows, and requires the demonstration: "... both the Freudian invention as the development of Lacan's teaching, they are input as a reading sinthomática on the left."
But there is something else away from the tried and misunderstood abstinence of the psychoanalyst, clearly located the place that holds psychoanalysis one who is guided by ethics, as a response to the incurable malaise Announces end of utopia. To J. German, Lacan elaborated the "materialistic theory only on the malaise of civilization itself xxi century "A" practice on the real-impossible, "" only intention? To serious test how far the symbolic can and can not be transformed through a real practice. "
left in For a Lacanian ... Jorge German speaks of a legacy Freud Lacan, how we read Freud through Lacan. In Lacan, the policy ... and as in all his books, we have a legacy of German Lacan, which makes it even more now for us and for the twenty-first century .
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