![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Freudian subject of the unconscious emerges only when a key aspect of the subject’s (self-)experience (his fundamental fantasy) becomes inaccessible to him, primordially repressed. ![]() ’ Lacan’s point, however, is that the psychoanalyst is the one who, precisely, can take this away from the subject: the analyst’s ultimate aim is to deprive the subject of the very fundamental fantasy that regulates the universe of his (self-)experience. ‘All that you’re saying may be true, but, nonetheless, nothing can take from me the intensity of the passion that I am experiencing now. I can answer by holding onto the appearance. In his short book, How to Read Lacan (2007), Slavoj Žižek writes, as I’m sure he does in several other places,Īccording to the standard view, the dimension that is constitutive of subjectivity is that of phenomenal (self-)experience: I am a subject the moment I can say to myself: ‘No matter what unknown mechanism governs my acts, perceptions, and thoughts, nobody can take away from me what I am seeing and feeling right now.’ Say, when I am passionately in love, and a biochemist informs me that all my intense sentiments are just the result of biochemical processes in my body. ![]()
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