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Chaosophy - autonomous learning

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Now, I think the question of "true difference" is, in fact, the question<br />

raised in the problem of the object. Just now, Felix, in referring to<br />

Lacan's teachings (and you came back to them), situated the "a"<br />

object in relation to the "ego," to the person, etc.<br />

Felix Guattari: ... the person and the family ...<br />

Serge Leclaire: Now, the concept of the "a" object in Lacan is part<br />

of a quaternary which includes the signifier, which is dual (51 and<br />

52), and the subject (the crossed out 5). True difference, if this<br />

expression were to be used, would be situated between the signifier<br />

on the one hand and the "a" object on the other.<br />

I don't mind that at no moment it would be advisable, for<br />

either pious or impious reasons, to use the term of signifier.<br />

Whatever the case, I don't see how you can challenge some duality<br />

and promote the "a" object as self-sufficient, like some substitute<br />

for an impious God. I don't think you can support a thesis, a project,<br />

an action, a "contraption," without introducing somewhere a<br />

duality, and all it entails.<br />

Felix Guattari: I'm not at all sure that the concept of the "a" object<br />

in Lacan is anything but a vanishing point, an escape, precisely,<br />

from the despotic character of signifying chains.<br />

Serge Leclaire: What interests me most, and what I am trying to<br />

articulate in a way quite obviously different from yours, is how desire<br />

is deployed in the social machine. I don't think we can go without a<br />

precise clarification of the object's function. Then it will be necessary<br />

to specify its relationship with other elements at work in the<br />

machine, "signifying" elements (symbolic and imaginary ones, if you<br />

prefer). These relationships don't operate in a single direction, that is,<br />

the "signifying" elements have a backlash effect on the object.<br />

i: '! Fiu.x: / 81

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