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What is the Real?
JACQUES- ALAIN MILLER

Beyond Prince Charming
& Pink Swords

MARIE HÉLÈNE-BROUSSE

Note on the Treatment
of the Symptom
by the Analytic Act

PIERRE-GILLES GUÉGUEN

Lacan's Legacy:
From the Universal to
the Particular
NATALIE WULFING

Lacan as Analysand
ERIC LAURENT

The Real
& the Semblance

JACQUES- ALAIN MILLER

Everlasting Couch
MARIE HÉLÈNE-BROUSSE

The Emperors Heron
FRANÇOIS REGNAULT

Psychoanalyis
& Our Time
ERIC LAURENT

The Staged Real
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

Wolfgang Tillmans
FM INTERVIEWS JA











        

Lacan's Legacy:

From the Universal to the Particular






Natalie Wulfing

[...]Within the fantasy we are still attached to meaning in one form or another, and Lacan will make this the root of the problem of the universal. Meaning and truth have a unifying function; they are shared, so in order to arrive at what is not only particular but truly singular, Lacan proceeds to make of the function of castration a logical function, an impossibility in logic, rather than the “story” that it used to be, as he puts it. Castration is from then on not an interdiction, a prohibition or some other family romance anymore, but a pure logical fact. The Real that is in question with regard to castration is defined as an impasse in logic, the logic of each singular speaking being, which means a point that is in no way shared in any common discourse.

With the notion of the One and the Not All, Lacan found a way to formalize this singular particular, or total difference, as he calls it. Now, the only reality there is, is inside what we say, “reality flows from what we say.” How is this different from the notion of “man having access to bits of reality”? How does this address the question of the particular? I think it is because this reality that is inside of what we say is precisely jouissance, which means that jouissance resides, and is included, in speech. The particular is then the singular way in which Lalangue, the private language that made its mark on the body, is the cause of jouissance. In Seminar XX, Encore, the fact of jouissance, the starting point of “there is jouissance’” as Jacques-Alain Miller put it in his course of 1997/1998, is a way of saying that we don’t share a common reference, the exception for example, but that we are all alone with a body that enjoys/suffers on the basis of having encountered Lalangue. This is no longer the body as specular image, but the body as an enjoying One.[...]

 


art: Saul Fletcher, Untitled #267 (tom 17), 2013



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