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    Comments on Jacques Lacan’s (1960) Discourse to Catholics
    Comments on Jacques Lacan’s (1960) Discourse to Catholics
    Comments on Jacques Lacan’s (1960) Discourse to Catholics
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    Comments on Jacques Lacan’s (1960) Discourse to Catholics

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    Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) revives the Freudian tradition in mid-20th century France. His writings are notoriously difficult. In fact, in an interview titled “the triumph of religion”, also translated by Bruce Fink, Lacan admits that his works are meant to be read rather than understood. They are like distilled liquors in that regard.
    The category-based nested form is a remarkable tool for re-articulating works like this.
    First, Freud’s model of the human psyche is rendered as a category-based nested form.
    Second, two interscopes are delineated, one belonging to everyday life and one associating to Freud’s paradigm of the unconscious. The interscopes are linked at a particular juncture, which I label “the synchronic thing”. Compulsive behavior meets hysterical symptom.
    "The synchronic thing" is the spark of psychoanalysis. Thus, the ethics psychoanalysis resonates with the Christian worldview, where literal truth speaks of God’s intent and poetic realism insinuates God’s desire. Literal truth meets poetic realism.

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    Release dateJan 15, 2019
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      Comments on Jacques Lacan’s (1960) Discourse to Catholics - Razie Mah

      Comments on Jacques Lacan’s (1960) Discourse to Catholics

      By Razie Mah

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      2019

      Notes on Text

      This work comments on two lectures given in March 1960 at the University of Saint Louis in Brussels, Belgium. In 2013, Bruce Fink published an English translation, based on French transcripts (Polity Press). The title is: The Triumph of Religion, preceded by A Discourse to Catholics. The main title covers a 1974 interview. The lesser title labels the matter at hand.

      In these comments, I re-articulate Lacan’s argument using the specialized language of the category-based nested form. Also, I consider some implications. A nested-form diagram of Freud’s model of the human psyche serves as a starting point. This diagram was developed in Comments on Peter Burfeind’s Book (2014) Gnostic America.

      From this starting point, I follow Lacan in a pilgrimage to the bridge between literal truth and poetic realism, a synchronic thing that spans two diachronic perspectives: common everyday consciousness and what Freud labeled the unconscious.

      Prerequisites include Primers on the Category-Based Nested From (#1), Sensible and Social Construction (#2) and Individual in Community (#3).

      ‘Words that belong together’ are denoted by single quotes or italics.

      Table of Contents

      Lecture 1.1

      Lecture 1.2

      Lecture 1.3

      Lecture 2

      Lecture 1.1

      0001 Jacques Lacan speaks on the ethics of psychoanalysis to a Catholic faculty in Belgium. Known for his well-attended lectures in Paris, Lacan also writes difficult-to-understand postmodern texts, attempting to save the Freudian tradition from itself.

      Perhaps, he can assist those Catholics in Belgium who hope to do the same for their own tradition.

      0002 So, what is ethics?

      Ethics associates to the realm of actuality (the category of secondness). Logic3 provides the normal context. Aesthetics1 corresponds to the underlying potential.

      0003 The resulting diagram looks like this.

      0004 Two generations after Freud publishes his landmark works, Lacan lectures.

      0005 Debates about Freud’s logic produce questions, like, Does the Freudian paradigm make scientific sense?

      Discussions about Freud’s aesthetics raise questions, like, What type of world does Freud envision?

      These debates and discussions involve attacks on and defenses of psychoanalysis.

      0006 Lacan notes that the topic of ethics is generally avoided. Ethics conjures questions, like, What the hell am I doing?

      The topic of ethics assumes the logic of Freud’s originating insights and the aesthetics of Freud’s analytic dyad.

      0007 Lacan provides a taste of Freudian aesthetics. First, he refers to himself in the third person. Then, he refers to himself in the first person.

      He is a psychoanalyst. He listens.

      Then, he says, I listen.

      This literary move captures the essence of the quickening of transference and counter-transference.

      Lacan is a showman.

      0008 Lacan sets the stage for an ethical dilemma, saying, I listen in the analytic dyad. So what am I hearing?

      His answer goes like this, "What I am hearing makes me wonder.

      0009 "Why do good and accommodating individuals, who seem to know what they are doing, let themselves go to the point where they fall prey to mirages, wasting their opportunities and allowing their essence to escape?...

      ...Their mirages toy with their passions, only attaining the scant reality of disappointment.

      0010 Indeed, Lacan’s musement sounds like a problem in ethics. The problem concerns falling prey to mirages.

      0011 At this point, I turn to a category-based nested form, modeling the Freudian unconscious.

      The model is first presented in Comments on Peter Burfiend’s Book (2014) Gnostic America.

      0012 Note how the nested form is fully articulated. Actuality is fully dyadic.

      The contiguity between the ego and the self goes like this: The ego2 accounts for the self2. The ego2 acts in the name of the self2.

      0013 This contiguity parallels a foundational presumption for language: Words refer to things. Words account for things. Words act in the name of things.

      0014 The superego3 contains everything that contributes to ordering a person’s unconscious psyche, including lessons conferred by both authorities and experiences. The superego is full of statements that should not be questioned about who I am

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