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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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