Jacques Lacan, Past and Present by Alain Badiou

Author:Alain Badiou
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: PHI027000, Philosophy/Movements/Deconstruction, PSY026000, Psychology/Movements/Psychoanalysis
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2014-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

C.G.: He had an extraordinary sense of humor….

É.R.: Yes, but I insist that we should never forget the dimension of the tragic. When you read him, or when you watch the rare videos of him we do have, you can see a profound suffering. Lacan suffered from the difficulties he had in transmitting his thought. This man of the Enlightenment always feared that he was not being clear enough, that he was not being understood. It is true, moreover, that his work, which is difficult, has been thought of as hermetic in the eyes of some.

To finish up on the Lacanian moment, my discovery of his teaching was much later than it was for Alain. Personally, I particularly admire the structuralist Lacan of the period 1950–65: the Lacan of the Rome discourse and “The Agency of the Letter,” of the theory of the signifier and of the advocate of scientificity in the wake of Koyré. I have an equal affection, as I’ve already said, for the Lacan from between the wars, for the phenomenologist who was close to Bataille and the surrealists, and who began to deconstruct the signifiers of the Western family. In my most recent book, Lacan, envers et contre tout [Lacan: In spite of everything],2 I evoke the final Lacan of the 1970s, who pursues to the very end the adventure of language: a nocturnal Lacan, haunted by death and the transmission of his work, a Lacan who inverts his topic (symbolic, imaginary, real—SIR) in order to put the real in the first position so as to make the heterogeneous that escapes all symbolization, something very dark, heard. A wavering of reason.

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