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THE SPEAKING BODY
Xth Congress of the WAP,
Rio de Janeiro 2016
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464
“What object is it that results from this effect of a certain discourse? We know
nothing about this object, except that it is the cause of desire, that is to say that
strictly speaking it manifests itself as want-to-be. There is therefore no being that
is thereby determined”
p. 151
“Of a Function That is Not to Be Written” (1971). Trans.: A. R. Price
[HB 9, 2013]
“In other words, sexual jouissance only acquires its structure from the
prohibition concerning jouissance directed at one’s own body, in other words,
very precisely, at this stopping point and frontier where it verges on lethal
jouissance. And it only returns to the dimension of the sexual by bringing a
prohibition to bear upon the body that one’s own body emerges from, namely
the body of the mother. Only in this way is there structured and linked into
discourse what the law alone can lead there, namely what is involved in sexual
jouissance.”
p. 25-26
[S. XX]
“Analysis presumes that desire is inscribed on the basis of corporal contingency.”
p. 93
“An opening, by which it is the world that makes us into its partner, is created
thereby. It is the speaking body insofar as it can only manage to reproduce
thanks to a misunderstanding regarding its jouissance. That is to say that it
only reproduces thanks to missing what it wants to say, for what it wants to say
(
veut dire
) –namely, as French clearly states, its meaning (
sens
)-is its effective
jouissance. And it is by missing that jouissance that it reproduces– in other
words, by fucking.”
p. 120-121
“It’s only speaking bodies, as I said, that come up with an idea of the world as
such. The world, the world of being, full of knowledge, is but a dream, a dream
of the body insofar as it speaks, for there’s no such thing as a knowing subject (
il
n’y a pas de sujet connaissant
). There are subjects who give themselves correlates in
object
a
, correlates of enjoying speech qua jouissance of speech (
parole jouissante
en tant que jouissance de parole
).”
p. 126-127
Le Sinthome
(1976). Trans.: P. King, [HB 9, 2013]
“Joyce admits something to us. While disagreeing with his friends over
Tennyson, Byron and the poets, they tied him to a barbed wire fence, and the
one named Heron –a name that is not irrelevant– who directed the whole affair,
beat him for some time. Joyce questioned why it was that, as soon the thing was
over, he wasn’t angry. Metaphorically representing his relationship to his body,
he said that he was divested of the whole affair as
a fruit is divested of its soft ripe
peel
.”
p. 103-104
II /c.3 Other publications
“Note on the Child” (1969). Trans.: N. Wülfing [PN 20, 2010]
“The presence of what Jacques Lacan designates as object
a
in the fantasy is
realised
by the child.”
p. 7
“In the object he alienates all of the mother’s possible access to her own truth, by
giving it body, existence and even the demand for protection.
The somatic symptom is the maximum guarantee of this mis–understanding
(
méconaissance
); it is an inexhaustible resource, for testifying to guilt, for serving
as the fetish or for embodying a primordial refusal, depending on the case.
In short, the child in the dual relationship to the mother, gives her, immediately
accessible, what lacks in the masculine subject, namely the object of her very
existence, appearing in the real. As a result, commensurate with the real he
presents, he is given to greater subordination in the fantasy.”
p. 8
“Television” (1973), [TV]
“If you follow along with me there, won’t you feel the difference between energy
–which is a constant that can be marked each time in relation to the One, on
the basis of which what is experimental in science is constructed– and the
Drang
or drive of the drive which,
jouissance
of course, only derives its permanence
from the rims –I went so far as to give them their mathematical form– of the
body? A permance that consists solely in the quadruple agency by which each
drive is sustained through coexistence with three others. It is only as power that
four opens onto the disunion that must be warded off, for those whom sex is
not sufficient to render partners.”
p. 24-25
“Freud Forever, and Interview with Panorama” (1974). Trans.: Ph.
Dravers [HB 12, 2015]
“… what the Freudian discovery returns us to is the enormity of the order in
which we are inserted, into which we are, so to speak, born a second time, from
out of the state that is rightly called
infans
, without speech.”
p. 17
“It [anxiety] is something that is situated outside our bodies, a fear, but a fear of
nothing that the body, the mind included, can provide a reason for. In short, the
Jacques Lacan