![]() ![]() The site of truth is not being but thought: ‘I do not think where I am’. Then what he did in Seminar XI ( The Four Fundamentals of Psychoanalysis), already more intelligent, he turns it around. ![]() He started with this standard rereading of Descartes: ‘I am not where I think’. He offers a nice reading of how Lacan played all possible variations. Then, at a certain point, in the early 1970s, Lacan made the choice for Descartes against Heidegger and triumphantly returned to the cogito. It proves how, in the 1950s, Lacan was flirting with Heidegger's critique of subjectivity. It is a wonderful analysis of how, when Lacan refers to the topic of being, basically to Heidegger, he radically changes his position. For example, I discovered a new excellent source to Lacan, Francois Balmes's What Lacan Says about Being. But there is at least one thing that I always try to do, to render palpable the openness – not in any positive nondogmatic sense – to put it in very simple terms, to show how Lacan is totally unsure and, in an ironic way, cheats, changes his position radically. ![]() When you told me earlier that not only am I focusing too much on Lacan within the broader realm of psychoanalysis and that I exert too much influence in that people read Lacan through my, probably narrow, perspective, it is true. Slavoj Žižek: Let me be critical towards Lacan. ![]()
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