Jacques Lacan: Dialectic of Desire and Structure of the sensorial Perception E-Book

Antonio Rainone

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

This book aims at outlining what the Dialectic of Desire is in Lacan. Starting from the analysis of the concept of desire-for-desire, I dwell on considering the function that “the desire for the Other” has in structuring, both in the Logic of Fantasy (or of Unconscious) and in the way the phenomenic representation of the Real is established. Moreover I examine how the classical aesthetic theory, subjected to the Logic of Fantasy, is taken back to an ethic of intersubjectivity and how, within this step, a “topological” redefinition of language and of the space of subjectivity is achieved.

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Contents

1. From the Dialectic of Desire to Logic of Fantasy

2. The “desire for desire” and the anthropogenesis

3. The space of desire: the cut and the suture

4. The topological origin of language and its camouflaging

5. The phantasmal object of desire and the establishment of the subject

6. Again on the object of the look and on the fantasy of desire

7. The topological structure of the perception of «the Real»

* Published in Italian in the volume Lacan d’après Lacan, Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2015 («il cannocchiale – rivista di studi filosofici» XL, 1, 2015, pp. 169-206). The English version has been slightly modified and extended in some of its parts.

ANTONIO RAINONE

Jacques Lacan: Dialectic of Desire and Structure of the sensorial Perception

1. From the Dialectic of Desire to Logic of Fantasy

In the 1958-59 Seminar Desire and its Interpretation, Lacan provides us with an exemplary definition of what desire is in Man. Dealing more peculiarly with the clinical or psychoanalytic experience which arises from the direct experience of desire, he states that «desire at first appears as a disturbance. It upsets the perception of the object () […], degrades it, throws it into disorder, debases it, in any case it shakes it and sometimes manages to dissolve the one who perceives it, that is the subject». Desire, Lacan adds, provokes a sort of blinding of the reality of things, or rather it produces the perception of something that «appears to be opposite to the construction of reality». In a text belonging to the same period, (1958), disserting on the nature of desiring (), he states: «The phenomenology that emerges from analytic experience is certainly of a kind to demonstrate the paradoxical, deviant, erratic, eccentric, and even scandalous nature of desire that distinguishes it from need».