On Alain Badiou and Logiques des mondes
by SLAVOJ ZIZEK
In Badiou's
Logiques des
mondes,
the shift is from the axis Being-Event to the axis
World-Event. What this means is that, in
Logiques des
mondes,
Being, World and Event do not form a triad: we have
either the opposition of Being and World
(appearance), or the opposition of World and Event.
There is an unexpected conclusion to be drawn from
this: insofar as (Badiou emphasizes this point again
and again) a true Event is not merely a negative
gesture, but opens up a positive dimension of the
New, an Event IS the imposition of a new world, of a
new Master-Signifier (a new Naming, as Badiou puts
it, or, what Lacan calls
vers un nouveau
significant).
The true evental change is the passage from the old
to the new world. One should even make a step further
and introduce the dimension of dialectics here: an
Event CAN be accounted for by the tension between the
multiplicity of Being and the World, its site is the
symptomal torsion of a World, it is generated by the
excess of Being over World (of presence over
re-presentation).
Pragmatics of the Cure: the Transference from objet a
"L'Étourdit" and "La Troisième". In these texts, the
link between
objet a
and semblance is interrogated. The link between the
real and semblance has been approached in various
ways throughout the teachings of Lacan. It is a
matter, in these two texts, of his "last teachings."
There, Lacan questions the limit to the solution that
he had invented in the first period of his
teaching.every broad way in which Lacan uses this
term in his late teaching.
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The Concept of Semblant in Lacan’s Teaching
I do three things in this paper. I give what I think
is arguably the best way to understand the concept of
a semblant in Lacan's teaching; I reject or at least
seriously qualify a second way in which the notion of
semblant in Lacan is frequently understood, which is
to see it as akin to the phallus; and I finish by
criticizing the very, very broad way in which Lacan
uses this term in his late
teaching.