Lacan and Religion by Aron Dunlap

Author:Aron Dunlap
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge

For Lacan we think with sign-objects. True advances in science and in knowledge come because a new one has been created (or an old one given a completely new meaning). Words are always dependent on a (constantly shifting) value relative to the other words to which they are connected in the web of language; but mathemes are immune to the kind of distortions and ambiguities attendant on sign systems (languages). Having said that, the following, while not technically a matheme, leads one in the same direction as the mathemes, and is dependent upon the matheme we just discussed. It is Lacan’s revision of Saussure’s tree sign (Figure 5). Lacan tells a story to go along with this image:

A train arrives at a station. A little boy and a little girl, brother and sister, are seated across from each other in a compartment next to the outside window that provides a view of the station platform building going by as the train comes to a stop. “Look”, says the brother, “we’re at Ladies!” “Imbecile!” replies his sister, “Don’t you see we’re at Gentlemen”. (Lacan 2006d: 417)

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