I'm prepping for PhD qualifying exams next month. This was still quite challenging but at least helped me grasp some main ideas to focus on in this text. Thanks!
Seduction / Challenge reminds me of Lacan's Objet a: the 'negational substance' / void around which all other signifiers organise; the not-something from which the subject is formed, which provides the impetus for the creation of the imaginary/symbolic yet can never be known to do so (must be kept a secret behind the signified object) if we are to survive the realisation that we came from nothing (i.e life is a self made illusion). It a bit like Hegel's situation: that state of nothing which necessitates a reaction, and a reaction to the reaction, and so on, until we are the self-reproducing subject.
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I'm prepping for PhD qualifying exams next month. This was still quite challenging but at least helped me grasp some main ideas to focus on in this text. Thanks!
Happy to hear it!!
Oh, and good luck. Be sure to celebrate once they're done!
Seduction / Challenge reminds me of Lacan's Objet a: the 'negational substance' / void around which all other signifiers organise; the not-something from which the subject is formed, which provides the impetus for the creation of the imaginary/symbolic yet can never be known to do so (must be kept a secret behind the signified object) if we are to survive the realisation that we came from nothing (i.e life is a self made illusion). It a bit like Hegel's situation: that state of nothing which necessitates a reaction, and a reaction to the reaction, and so on, until we are the self-reproducing subject.
Dismissing Jean's nostalgia is to remove the cornerstone of his entire project. You surprised me with that one.
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