Dear Professor Grossman,
I'd be interested to know how you think intersubjectivity and
identification are related to one another. Is not identification a function
of the ego and the imaginary, not the symbolic register of
intersubjectivity (at once the locus of the unconscious, desire, and what
the early moderns would call rhetoric)?
thanks,
Dr. Shirley Sharon-Zisser
At 09:24 23/10/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I don't think metaphor is quite right. Rather, Lacan is
>being hyperliteral (or literally literal). Lacan and
>Benveniste, who was in Lacan's early seminars, argue that
>(inter)subjectivity is a function of language. >As for the future anterior
tense, I think the point is that
>when one speaks, one submits to discourse. The "I" one
>speaks is returned to him/her as "you" and this "you" never
>quite coincides with what we thought we meant (even when we
>talk to ourselves), so we discover our meaning, who we are,
>discursively, by accepting or rejecting the identifications
>of our interlocutors. We discover ourselves in terms of the
>future "meaning" of our words (and deeds).
>
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