Dear Ben, I have not read Bodies Without Organs,
could you help me out by making a summary
of this Lacanian structure? That the paternal function
is pathologized does not really explain it, thank you.
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> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:51:06 +0000
> From: Benjamin Noys <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Ozon and the death of the father
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> Dear Dejan,
> I'd just like to make a point about Lacan. Certainly in his final
> phase, especially in Seminar 23 The Sinthome, Lacan insists that the
> paternal function is a symptom. That is to say that humans do not
> fall 'naturally' into the symbolic structured by the paternal function.
> We could even say that the paternal is 'pathologised' and that the
> symbolic is radically inconsistent ('There is no Other of the Other').
> Although it is very problematic on Deleuze Zizek's book Organs without
> Bodies makes clear this structure of Lacan's thought. Also see Lorenzo
> Chiesa's paper on Lacan and Lars Von Trier's The Idiots,
> http://www.janvaneyck.nl/~clic/documents/LacanwihtLarsvonTrier.PDF.
> Ben
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