Figures in the Lacanian Field: Reading Literature, Theatre and Cinema with the Later Lacan
IntroductionIn the Lacanian field, the enigma, or rather, the mystery, at the core of subjectivity goes by the name of the Real. “The Real” says Lacan, “is the mystery of the speaking body,” and he adds, “the mystery of the unconscious” (SXX 131), such that speech, the body and an “unthinkable” dim...
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E-rea
2014
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| Summary: | IntroductionIn the Lacanian field, the enigma, or rather, the mystery, at the core of subjectivity goes by the name of the Real. “The Real” says Lacan, “is the mystery of the speaking body,” and he adds, “the mystery of the unconscious” (SXX 131), such that speech, the body and an “unthinkable” dimension (Lacan SXXII Dec. 10, 1974), are invoked conjointly, and in some sense, inextricably, in a redefinition of the unconscious as Real. This Real is very much at stake in Lacan’s later teaching,... |
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