One of the great merits of Lacan’s thesis “the unconscious is politics” lies in its emphasizing the deadlocks that the subject faces in a universe of the inexistent Other. Contrary to what might be expected, the inexistence of the Other is not in and of itself a liberating factor for the subject, since the latter is caught up in the metonymic displacements of a discourse that knows no end. Yet in opening the perspective of the not-all, Lacan indicates at the same time the possibility of a fundamentally different politics, one which is not restricted to the subversion of the master’s closure by uncovering its radical contingency.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 39189549By combining a close reading of Freud’s Group Psychology with the analysis of contemporary mass phenomena, the paper develops a Freudian notion of a collective subject. It is argued that in the formation of a group proper, along with the “disappearance of individual acquirements”, a dimension of the subject is produced that cannot be reduced to the hypostasized Massenseele.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 38671661The lecture was centred around two theses. According to the first, the Kantian revolution in the way of thinking is grounded in two approaches, ontological and logica. Whereas what is at isue in the first thesis is the question of the “transcendental difference” between the thing itself and appearance, in the second, it is the question concerning the logical procedures that would make it possible to conceptualise the ontological status of the thing itself that is subtracted from the phenomenal reality. The second thesis aims at showing that Kant only succeeds in joining them in one approach in the Critique of Judgment. The effect of this connection is the second “Copernican turn” of Kant's philosophy, and only in this second turn is Kant's revolution in the way of thinking brought to completion.
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