By Juan-David Nasio
5 classes at the Psychoanalytic conception of Jacques Lacan is the 1st English translation of a vintage textual content via one of many most suitable commentators on Lacan's paintings. Juan-David Nasio makes a number of theoretical advances and eloquently demonstrates the medical and useful import of Lacan's concept, even in its so much tough or vague moments. what's unique, finally, approximately Nasio's remedy of Lacan's concept is the level to which Lacan's primary concepts--the subconscious, jouissance, and the body--become the locus of the overturning or exceeding of the discrete barriers of the person. the popularity of the results of Lacan's psychoanalytic thought, then, brings the analyst to undertake what Nasio calls a ''special listening.''
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It is precisely from this eminently formal perspective of linguistics that Lacan elevated the concept of the unconscious to the rank of a language, that is, to a structure, the unit of which is the signifying element. The unconscious satisfies the requirements that define any structure. What are these requirements? First, a structure is a chain of elements that are distinct in their material reality, but similar in that they belong to the same whole. These elements are called signifiers. Second, the signifiers, as interconnected, obey a double movement of connection (metonymy), and of substitution (metaphor).
Now to this elementary couple one must add the hole. The structural configuration of the unconscious involves a triad: the hole, existence, and consistency. One can define the hole as the position that Onenow on the external page_56 Page 57 edgeno longer occupies. The hole is the lack left by the One ''that has left'' and taken a place at the limit of the network (figure 3). We recall here that the hole permits the movement and the displacement of the units of the network. As the One insures the consistency of the whole, the hole insures its dynamic.
If to read in a cursory manner means to read superficially, I reject your objection. If on the contrary it means that I use a diagonal system to establish a relation between the whole and the order that is, the very system which has enabled Cantor to discover the transfinite number, then yes, I have read Saussure in a cursory manner in order to found the psychoanalytic concept of the signifier. And this reply would have been appropriate, because Cantor in fact used the diagonal method of counting to show that the union of denumerable sets was itself denumerable.