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,
PIER PAOLO
PASOLINI
Lacan and Politics,
JACQUES-ALAIN
MILLER
Symptom and Body Image I,
JUAN CARLOS
INDART
Varieties of Negation,
SIMON HAJDINI
Denounce or Consent!,
FRANÇOIS REGNAULT
Time of a Tear
JOSEFINA AYERZA
MILLER
Briefs from the Couch,
GUY BRIOLE & JA
Jacques-Alain Miller
Jouissance must be made a vital function. Only a living body jouit. How is the incorporation of the structure translated, if not by an emptying of the jouissance of which the tomb is the model? What do we find in the tomb? The dead body surrounded by what has served to satisfy it during its existence.
In the middle, the bones, this mummy that we can call an empty set, the empty set of the dead body. On the periphery, as rejected to the outside, the instruments of jouissance.
It is a way of grasping how Freud distinguishes what he calls the erogenous zones, which are border areas where jouissance, which has been driven from the body, has in some way taken refuge. It remains residual.
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Nathaniel Mellors, The Vomiter (Ourhouse), 2010
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