Ethics and tragedy in Lacan

Zupančič, Alenka

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“…Zupančič introduces the idea of the sublime to highlight this trap. 36 Sublime, for Zupančič, is a feeling which combines our insignificance 'as far as the whole of the universe is concerned' and the fact that what functions at the centre of 'our ordinary life suddenly strikes us as trivial and unimportant'. 37 It is the experience whereby one watches the most horrific disaster from a position of safety and experiencing 'narcissistic satisfaction that emerges with the feeling of the sublime'.…”

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“…36 Sublime, for Zupančič, is a feeling which combines our insignificance 'as far as the whole of the universe is concerned' and the fact that what functions at the centre of 'our ordinary life suddenly strikes us as trivial and unimportant'. 37 It is the experience whereby one watches the most horrific disaster from a position of safety and experiencing 'narcissistic satisfaction that emerges with the feeling of the sublime'. 38 The subject observes a disaster from a position of detachment (alienation) and converts a feeling of anxiety into a certain gain (a pleasure).…”

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Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic

Zevnik

2023

International Relations

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Since the beginning of the global Covid-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 countries across the world have implemented various measures to contain the virus. They have restricted public gatherings, mobility and congregation of people at homes and in public places. These restrictions however did not stop another chain of events – the global Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests. In the summer of 2020 people across the globe mobilised to protest the police killing of George Floyd. In the UK the protest for Black Lives took place in all major cities, but they also continued weekly in smaller communities by ‘taking the knee’. What interests me in this contribution is how anxieties experienced during the global pandemic contributed to the mobilisation of large-scale political actions for racial justice and how might we consider anxiety as a mobilising force in political space in times of global pandemic in particular in the context of anti-racist protests such as BLM. This forum contribution opens by considering how global pandemic aided conditions for political action for racial justice, before discussing the role of anxiety in political mobilising. Here I first detailed how anxiety is understood in Lacanian psychoanalysis before considering what it tells us about the BLM protests for racial justice and specifically the removal of the Colston statue during the Bristol protest on June 7 2020.

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Zevnik

2023

International Relations

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“…But, if all my energies are consumed by the rigours of the production-consumption cycle that is driven by global capital then an increase in enstrangement is its issue (Arendt, 1958and 1988, see also Conroy, 2003. And this is precisely because the attempt to guarantee the bourgeois dream of linking individual comfort with the acquisition of goods and services (and not just in Lacanian terms [see Supančič, 2003]) is doomed. And it is doomed, as Augustine recognised long before Lacan, because the attempt to heal the split between the signifying order and the Real is always doomed to frustration.…”

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The enstranged self: recovering some grounds for pluralism in education

Conroy

2009

Journal of Moral Education

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For something approaching 50 years, multicultural education has been accepted as an educational, social and moral good by liberal educators. Its instantiation in the practices of education has, in various ways, largely depended on a series of strategies for making the other (the stranger) familiar within the majority culture. This essay suggests that such a cultural and pedagogical focus on the other may be a mistake. Drawing on literary cultures that span both time and space it demonstrates how a more original, radical and effective pedagogy of pluralism and multiculturalism might be grounded on a very different set of ideas about the self than those that have come to dominate education over the last 50 years. The first section argues for the re-habilitation of the notion of enstrangement, which has, since the early part of the nineteenth century, been displaced by the much more aggressive and alienating (Marxian and post-Marxian) notion of estrangement. This forms the ground for re-thinking our relationship to the self and the other and thus to the other and the world. The second section looks specifically at how we are enstranged onto-psychologically, epistemically and culturally and the implications of these forms of enstrangement for education. The third part concentrates on how a pedagogy of enstrangement can constructively open up new possibilities in, and for, multicultural education as a moral endeavour.

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“…Producing the object of desire means making an object out of the infinite measure that is at work in desire in the form of lack or void." 27 However, since the object of desire is "in(de)finite, [its] potential can only be realized (constituted as an accomplished, 'whole' entity) as lost, that is, cast in the negative form." 28 In Lacan's work, the example of an object being forged from the object cause of desire is found in a work of art, in the character Antigone in Sophocles' eponymous play.…”

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“…In Steinberg's strongly Kierkergaardian interpretation, Don Giovanni confronts the representational authority of the Baroque "with the energies of dissolution and movement, with those qualities of transience, flux, and contingency (le transitoire, le fugitif, et le contingent) that for Baudelaire formed the defining principles of modernity." 30 (27) In Lacanian terms, Don Giovanni has exchanged the endless failure of attaining a stable identity for himself with the intense jouissance produced from the movement of desire itself. Don Giovanni, like Antigone, does not just say "No!"…”

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The Death of Narcissus: On Musical Subjectivity

Currie

2013

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Ethics and tragedy in Lacan

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Anxiety and political action in times of the Covid-19 pandemic

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The Death of Narcissus: On Musical Subjectivity

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