Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1994 11:13:36 +0000 From: Dave Wilson <Dave-AT-zizek.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: ? for Wes on Lacan Wes and Gene; Your discussion on Lacan and marxism interests me. *I* would appreciate it if you continued the discussion in public. Over the last couple of years I am experiencing a personal return to Marx, prompted by my Lacanian readings, kicked off by Zizek. Wes' comment that; >I argue that his claim is that the subject of >history, capable of experiencing the laws of historical materialism, is >a by-product of language. In this case, historical materialism becomes >inconceivable to us outside of our linguistically constructed >subjectivity. Now, historical materialism might bring about a massive >shift in subjectivity, but we would experience >this shift as some kind of subject, and would see some code(Lacan says it >will always be the phallic code, but I don't see much reason believe this) >as formative, and as subjects this code would seem universal and >necessarily transhistorical. seems plausible to me. I agree that this seems to constitute a lot >of the work of D and G and Goux, and am interested tohear what your >response is(this is one of the subjects of my upcoming PhD. Exams, so I >also have a lot of references, but we might want to do that direct rather >than through the newsgroup). More about Goux please! Who he? and which bits of D&G are you referring to, or do you see it as (embedded in) their entire project? best, Dave Dave Wilson | A letter always arrives at its destination (Dave-AT-zizek.demon.co.uk) | Jacques Lacan (http://s13a.math.aca.mmu.ac.uk) ------------------
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