Fantasy Ideology, Lacan

Kelley jimmyjames at softhome.net
Tue Aug 20 13:57:51 PDT 2002


At 04:38 PM 8/20/02 -0400, christian11 at mindspring.com wrote:


> > >In short, as Lacan blew off a developmental
> > account of the subject
> >
> >
> >
> > YES!
>
>Whatever. Not that it matters all that much, but all that
>pre-oedipal-jouissance-to-be-squashed-by-the-intervention-of-the-symbolic
>stuff, the whole business about the cry and "entry" into language, the mirror
>_stage_ as orthopaedic supplement to the presignifying body, etc. is all
>rigidly developmental. It is only preserved at a higher level in the short
>sessions and high handed authoritarianism of his cranky seniority.
>
>Christian

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrowl. is it peak sunspot activity time of the month AGAIN? Seriously, I think we're defining "developmental" differently.

kelley



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