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Fulgurance,
JACQUES-ALAIN
MILLER

Heresy and Orthodoxy,
JACQUES-ALAIN
MILLER

Shame and Self-Hatred,
ÉRIC LAURENT

More Inward...
JACQUES-ALAIN
MILLER

The Other in the Other
JACQUES-ALAIN
MILLER

A Desperate Vitality,
P
IER PAOLO
PASOLINI

Lacan and Politics,
JACQUES-ALAIN
MILLER

Symptom and Body Image I,
JUAN CARLOS
INDART

Varieties of Negation,
S
IMON HAJDINI

Denounce or Consent!,
F
RANÇOIS REGNAULT

Time of a Tear
JOSEFINA AYERZA
MILLER

Judith,
FRANÇOIS REGNAULT

Briefs from the Couch,
G
UY BRIOLE & JA

Nocturama,
GARY DAUPHIN




























        

Shame and Self-Hatred

 

 

Éric Laurent

It must be said that the contemporary ways of push-to-jouir (pousse-au-jouir) have admitted the formula of “watching them jouir.” Our time is the one of the generalized reality show. Everyone can become a star in the regime of voyeurism. During fifteen minutes of ephemeral celebrity, each one can take the place of the one who jouit. The images of the reality show refer to the deadly edge of the mirror’s stage and its relation to the superego. In every reality show there is the elimination of the other and eventually the elimination of oneself. In the end, shame is a “shame of living” that the master signifier occasionally relieves.

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Joseph Geagan, Gorgeous Nancy Girl, 2017
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