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THEORY, POETRY, FICTION AND CONTEMPORARY ART
ISSUE 7 SPRING 2006
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FROM THE FRENCH
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The Symptom: Knowledge, Meaning and the Real
by Jacques-Alain Miller

Let's make a list: slip, joke, mistake, symptom. We see right away which term is dissonant in this list. It seems obvious to me that that it is the symptom. It is not difficult to say why. Let's pinpoint the register of the signifying intention, of thewanting-to-say (le vouloir-dire). We can't define a slip without reference to a different, priorwanting-to-say. When we speak of a slip, we refer to the interference of anotherwanting-to-say, as if another had spoken, and the supposed intention of which made the first fail. A joke is the triumph of the wanting-to-say to the extent that, according to Freud, it is finally the other that appropriates it and gains a bonus of pleasure greater than that of the sender himself.[...] go to article

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Counter-transference is the Symptom of the Analyst
by Thomas Svolos

I wish to talk today about Countertransference. I will present several different theses on Countertransference, but want to at the outset alert you to three different aspects of the Countertransference that I want to address throughout this paper. The first is the source of Countertransference—whether it results from the analysand or the analyst or some combination of the two. The second is the judgment we make of the Countertransference - is Countertransference, put most simply, bad - some unanalyzed dimension of the unconscious of the analyst, for example - or good, and somehow productive, a dimension of successful psychoanalytic treatment? Finally, I wish to ask - does the Countertransference exist? While this seemingly ontological question would seem primary and worthy of addressing at the outset - I wish to bracket this - and will proceed initially as if it is a given, but I will address this at the end.[...] go to article

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IN FRENCH

Inquiétude qui viens...
by Armand Zaloszyc

Dans son livre L’avenir d’une illusion paru en 1927, Freud évoque, en passant, le souvenir qui lui revient alors d’une « très remarquable expérience » qu’il lui était arrivé d’avoir : « J’étais déjà un homme d’âge mûr, écrit Freud, et je me tenais pour la première fois de ma vie sur la colline de l’Acropole à Athènes, parmi les ruines des temples, le regard sur le bleu de la mer. A ma joie se mêlait un sentiment d’étonnement qui me fit venir cette pensée: Also ist das wirklich so (Alors cela est réellement ainsi) wie wir’s in der Schule gelernt hatten (ainsi que nous l’avions appris à l’école). Faut-il qu’alors ma croyance (Glauben) à la réelle vérité de ce que j’entendais (an die reale Wahrheit des Gehörten) ait été sans profondeur ni force, pour que je puisse aujourd’hui être si étonné! Mais, poursuit Freud, je ne veux pas trop insister sur la signification de cette expérience [...] go to article


Pastoute, lettre, science
by Cristina Alvares

Le sujet est divisé comme partout par le langage, mais un de ses registres peut se satisfaire de la référence à l’écriture et l’autre de la parole (Lacan2001:19). Ces deux registres n’évoquent-ils pas celui de la jouissance masculine, centrée sur la parole, et celui de la jouissance féminine, non-dite, muette comme la lettre ? J’avance l’hypothèse d’une affinité entre pastoute et lettre, qui se fonde sur leur portée anti-ontologique ; et expliciterai la fonction de la jouissance féminine comme objection à la notion d’univers, tel que Lacan le définit comme fiction (fixion) de la science. [...] go to article



Monument à Lacan
by Alain Séchas

[...] allant encore plus loin, certains artistes n'indiquent même plus de mots et "imagent" des principes psychosociologiques ; parmi eux, le sculpteur Alain Séchas, auteur d'un étrange moulage de deux chats de sexes opposés s'interpénétrant. Intitulée Monument pour Lacan (2002), l'|uvre matérialise l'axiome lacanien sur l'absence de rapport sexuel formalisable chez les humains. Régulièrement hissée au rang de performance, la relation sexuelle est considérée comme un véritable enjeu de pouvoir entre deux êtres distincts, l'Un et l'Autre. Pendant l'acte, chacun reste seul et s'abandonne au jeu de son propre fantasme. more Alain Séchas


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IN SPANISH

Conjecturas sobre el psicoanalisis en el siglo XXI
by Gustavo Dessal

Esa mañana, una mañana radiante de octubre del año 2087, una mañana que lo prometía todo, el hombre H. se despertó a su hora acostumbrada, tras un descanso perfecto. En su cerebro parpadeaban aún los restos de un agradable sueño, quimicamente inducido por su Programa Onírico Personalizado. Al incorporarse en la cama, un sensor térmico encendió el proyector de estructuras audiovisuales con el resumen de las noticias y las ofertas del día
Se dirigió a la cocina, estudió el menú de desayunos balanceados propuestos en la pantalla del ordenador, pulsó la opción 3, y al instante el dispensador de microcapsulas regurgitó un saludable complejo multivitaminico. Mientras lo saboreaba acompañado de un zumo de naranjas sintetizado, echó un vistazo a su agenda electrónica. Dos ciberconferencias y una proyección holográfica para decidir algunas operaciones de compra para su empresa. Una jornada tranquila.
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Time Enough for Countin'
by Allan Pero

“Time Enough for Countin’”: Gambling and the Event-effect as Symptom - the title of my paper, as you may know, is a line from one of Kenny Rogers’ big hits of the 1970s - called “The Gambler.” The problem of gambling, the troubadour tells us, circulates around temporality itself. Recall the lyrics: “You got to know when to hold’em, know when to fold’em, know when to walk away, and know when to run.” The crucial component to being a worthy gambler, then, is not mastering the game, but the temporality of the act, of knowing the when,  the contingent elements that erupt in what Anatole France calls a hand-to-hand encounter with Fate  (qtd. in The Arcades Project, 498). Time then is structured in a specific way in relation to gambling; what I ll suggest to you is that gambling produces a space for the subject to act in concert with Fate. The purpose of this encounter is to make the moment of the act appear. All other movements, gestures become secondary.[...] go to article



Mechanistics, Grammar & Locality of Thought
by Louis Armand

One of the earliest questions that will have confronted man as a sentient being is the question that is often posed in terms of “why is there something and not nothing,” but which may better be formulated as “why is there consciousness and not nothing”? but which may better be formulated as why is there consciousness and not nothing? In one way or another, this represents what can be argued to be the founding question of subjectivity, in which the individual first lays claim, by virtue of discourse, to a condition of thought at least as it has been understood since Descartes, as the premise and underlying assumption of philosophy as a certain discourse regarding knowledge, or self-knowledge, by which thought presupposes any subject whatsoever and hence any epistemological object and in one sense or another the entire history of thought can be seen as converging upon it.[...] go to article


Mother, I
by Chris Tysh

Scene 56. Ext. Night.
Leaving the lit-up boulevard, the lovers round a comer and wander off toward a dark street, which rises up on a steep incline. They retreat from the camera, walking arm in arm, oblivious to the mounds of refuse, strange slogans wheat-pasted on election boards, a stray dog come out of nowhere. As they move with an unconscious grace, a knot of men hails them with hungry eyes. The camera pans to the narrow doorway of a hotel. [...] go to article

POLITICS

Play Fuckin' Loud: Zizek vs. the Left
by
Rex Butler and Scott Stephens

Undoubtedly, one of the great cultural experiences of last year was Martin Scorsese’s documentary No Direction Home, which chronicles Bob Dylan’s career from his arrival in New York in 1961 to his decision to abandon live music some 5 years later. Of course, the real subject of the film is the astonishing development of Dylan’s musical expression, from his early cover versions of other singers to his unique fusion of folk and rock. It is a trajectory he pursued in the face of an absolute resistance from the audience that had grown up listening to his early protest songs. One of the events the film depicts is Dylan's now famous concert at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1966, during which he turns to his backing band after crises of Judas! From one of the aggrieved folk purists in the audience and says simply: "Play fuckin' loud." [...] go to article

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PHILOSOPHY

Art's imperative: Speaking the unspeakable
by Alain Badiou


I hope everybody has my beautiful paper. Half way half in the Drawing Center finally my lecture has to take the form of a drawing too. And as you have seen it's a really beautiful one. Beautiful but probably mysterious, so a great part of my lecture will be an explanation of the mysterious paper. We have this evening to dicuss the Arts Imperative. If there is such a thing as an imperative in the arts, I propose to express it in a short length: Speaking the Unspeakable. But if there is a real way in the field of arts, something like an imperative, is it not the law of success, the success history? go to article

NEW YORK - PARIS WORKSHOP 1984

Translating the Transference
by Patrick Cole Hogan

I had originally intended to use this time to explore Lacan's conception of the manner in which the transference arises in an analysis, discussing his notions of constitution, dialectic, and stagnation. However, I soon realized that 15 minutes would be far too little time to say anything very useful about these topics. Therefore, I should like to address a narrower topic, but one in many ways necessarily preliminary to any attempt at an expansion and development of Lacan's ideas - not transference, but translation, most particularly as it concerns our understanding of the literal meaning of Lacan's claims in his "Intervention sur Ie transfert," the "Intervention on the Transference," and in other, related writings. [...] go to article


Lisi
by James E. Gorney

Lacan brilliantly and incisively maps for us the unfolding dialectic of Dora's treatment with Freud. On the path toward realizing and recognizing her truth, symptoms are deciphered as "symbols written in the sand of the flesh" by virtue of the analyst's dialectical acuity and his speaking from the place of the Other. his is by and large the case until Freud, in a state of counter-transferential perplexity and denial, and unwitting identification with Herr K, finally swallows the imaginary lure which has been dangled in front of him by the patient and thus joins with her in a struggle on the field of the imaginary. [...] go to article


Frau K and Dora
by Dona Lopez

It is now a common thing to say that Psychoanalysis was born, that it was invented by the hysteric. It was not born around melancholia, nor psychosis. Not even around perversions. Psychoanalysis is the greatest contribution made to the history of thought by the hysteric. The 'praise of the hysteric' has been pointed out and rightfully so, as she is a discoverer. Only on the condition that we do not fall into her trap. [...] go to article

LACANIAN INK 2001



Welcome to the Desert of the Real - The Video
by Slavoj Zizek

Issue 19 publishes Zizek whom I am delighted to be able to present to you once more... Zizek will not be reading from his article in lacanian ink 19, "The Only Good Neighbor is a Dead Neighbor" He will instead pick up on the very actual. Against passion of the real in the 20th Century, the 21-century onset opens up to clear discussion. [...] go to the video

LACANIAN INK 2003

Love without Mercy - The Video
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RELIGION


Hegel - Chesterton: German Idealism and Christianity
by Slavoj Zizek

According to a commonplace, Judaism (and Islam) is a "pure" monotheism, while Christianity, with its Trinity, is a compromise with polytheism; Hegel even designates Islam as THE "religion of sublimity" at its purest, as the universalization of the Jewish monotheism:

In Mohammedanism the limited principle of the Jews is expanded into universality and thereby overcome. Here, God is no longer, as with the Asiatics, contemplated as existent in immediately sensuous mode but is apprehended as the one infinite sublime Power beyond all the multiplicity of the world. Mohammedanism is, therefore, in the strictest sense of the world, the religion of sublimity. [...] go to article

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