Introduction to Reading
Jacques Lacan's Seminar on Anxiety
JACQUES-ALAIN
MILLER
The Empty Subject:
Un-Triggered Psychoses
MASSIMO
RECALCATI
Anxiety:
Kierkegaard with Lacan
SLAVOJ
ZIZEK
The De-Sublimated Object
of Post-Ideology
SLAVOJ
ZIZEK
Dressed in Shadows:
Sarah Lucas and Alenka Zupancic
DAVID
EBONY
Inez van Lamsweerde
Vinoodh Matadin
CATHY
LEBOWITZ
interviews
JOSEFINA
AYERZA
Jacques-Alain Miller
translated by Barbara P. Fulks
Phallus-Organ
In "Subversion of the Subject," the minus phi of castration as imaginary is manipulated in a way so as to produce the big phi of jouissance-impossible-to-negativize. In the Seminar on Anxiety Lacan will remain on this track in which jouissance is, in effect, a function impossible to negativize. He will say it in his dialog, Televisión, 1 in this way: "The subject is happy." But when this positivity of jouissance is expressed by petit a in the Seminar on Anxiety, it is in some way deprived of a signifier.