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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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