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Lacanian Theory
of Discourse
Subject, Structure, and Society
Edited by Mark Bracher,
Marshall W. Alcorn, Jr.,
Ronald J. Corthell, and
Fran�½ois e Massardier-Kenney
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NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
Mark Braeher
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Part
I.
The Real and the Subject of Discourse
1. The Subject of Discourse: Reading Lacan through
(and beyond) Poststructuralist Contexts 19
Marshall
W.
Alcom, Jr.
2.
A Hair of the Dog That Bit You
Slavoj Z iiek
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
New York and London
Copyrighf
Cl
1994
by New York University
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lacanian theory of discourse: subject, structure, and society
I
edited by Mark Bracher . . . [et al.J.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical rderences and index.
ISBN
0-8147-1191-X
1.
Discourse analysis. 2. Lacan, Jacques,
1901-
-Contributions
in discourse analysis:
3.
Psychoanalysis. L Bracher, Mark,
1950-.
P302.L26
1994
401'.41-<1c20
94-14079
4
6
3 .
Extimite
74
Jacques-Alain Miller
4.
Otherness of the Body
Serge Andre
88
Part
U.
Discourse Structures and Subject Structures
5. On the Psychological and Social Functions of Language:
Lacan's The
or
y of the
Four
Discourses
107
Mark Bracher
6. Hysterical Discourse: Between the Belief in Man and the
Cult of Woman 129
Julien Quackelbeen et al.
7.
Discourse Structure and Subject Structure in Neurosis
Alexandre Stevens and Christian Vereeeken et al.
8.
The Other in Hysteria and Obsession
Alicia Arenas et at.
145
138
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9
8
7
6
5
4
3
1
v
9. Con-jugating and Playing-with the Fan
tasy: The Utterances
of the Analyst
151
Nestor A. Braunstein
Acknowledgments
Part
ill .
Discourse and Society
10. Deference to the Great Other: The Disc
ourse of Education
Rellata Saleel
163
1 1 .
" I Don 't Know Wh at Happened": Politica
l Oppression
and Psychological Structure 176
Luz Casenave et al.
12. On Blasphemy: Religion and Psychological Structure
Miguel Bassols and German L. Garcia et al.
1 85
13.
The Discourse of Gangs in the Stake
of Male Repression
and Narcissism 201
Willy Apollon
The editors would like to thank Robert Bamberg, Director of the Center
for Literamre and Psychoanalysis, and Eugene Wenninger, Vice Provost
and Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, both of Kent State Univer­
sity, for their support in this project. We also thank
Prose Studies
and
the
Fondatioll du champ (reudien
for permission to reprint previously
published material. Chapters
3,
5,
and 10 originally appeared in
Prose
Studies
1 1 ( 1988). Chapters
6,
7, 8 , 9, 1 1 , and 12 originally appeared in
Hysterie et obsession
(Paris: Navarin, 1986); and Chapter 4 in
Que veut
une (emme?
(Paris: Navarin, 1986).
Contributors
Index
223
220
Introduction
Mark Bracher
The Real and the Subject of Discourse
The purpose of this collection is to provide an exposition of a theory of
discourse that, we believe, offers unique possibilities for understanding
both the constitutive and the tcansformative functions of discourse in
human affairs. One major advantage that Lacan's theorizing about dis­
course has over other contemporary theories (particularly Marxism and
poststructuralism) lies in its articulation of the relation between language
and what is not language, an articulation that avoids both the Scylla of
(Marxist) reflectionism, where language and culture are hurled against
the rock of the real, and the Charybdis of (poststructuralist) idealism,
where all that passes is sucked in and devoured by language. Lacan's
formulation of what might be termed a circular causality between the
Symbolic and the Real also makes it possible to account for the fact that
individual subjects 3re produced by discourse and yet manage to retain
some capacity for resistance.
This point is developed in depth by Marshall Alcorn in "The Subject
of Discourse: Reading Lacan through (and beyond) Poststrucruralist
Contexts," in which Akarn draws important distinctions between La­
can's formulation and that of poststructuralism concerning the relation
between systems of discourse and individual human subjects. As Alcorn
demonstrates, Lacan's formulation (which is still seen by many critics as
essentially poststructuralist) has important consequences for understand­
ing the political significance of discourse, since it is able to explain
how resistance (in both the political and psychoanalytic senses) against
interpellation by d.iscourse can be produced within discourse itself, and
how the subject, in addition to being produced by ideology, is also
capable of producing ideology.
In
"Extimiti,"
Jacques-Alain Miller pursues further the paradoxical
relationship between the subject and what is other, which includes the
relation of language to what is not language, that is, of the Symbolic to
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