Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 08:27:01 -0500 (EST) From: eugeneh <eugeneh-AT-HUMANITIES1.COHUMS.OHIO-STATE.EDU> Subject: ? for Wes on Lacan Wes, you assert that for Lacan "the phallic code is a material-historico reality" and therefore compatible with historical materialism. I'd like to agree, but what evidence is there in Lacan that the phallic code *is* historical in the sense that historical materialism (vs mere historicism) entails -- i.e. that it undergoes historical transformation or change according to processes we can describe. Even if one were to find references in Lacan to historical specificity and change regarding the phallic code -- I know of a few, but very few -- this doesn't amount to an account of how the phallic code *changes over time*, does it? Gene Holland (P.S. the places historical change *is* accounted for in the wake of Lacan, it seems to me, are the works of Jean-Joseph Goux and Deleuze & Guattari.) ------------------
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