THE METASTASES OF ENJOYMENT: PSYCHOANALYSIS, ETHICS AND CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY

The principle of enjoyment which is the object of our present investigations can be described by constant "sliding of meaning", caused not only by the polisemy of this concept but also by its dissemination in different areas of theorethical discourse. On the one side, the principle of enj...

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Main Author: Audronė Žukauskaitė
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Vilnius University Press 1999-01-01
Series:Problemos
Online Access:http://localhost/OJS/index.php/problemos/article/view/4213
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description The principle of enjoyment which is the object of our present investigations can be described by constant "sliding of meaning", caused not only by the polisemy of this concept but also by its dissemination in different areas of theorethical discourse. On the one side, the principle of enjoyment as it is formulated in the field of psychoanalysis, is displaced into the fields of ethics and ideology; this means that ethics and ideology become the object of psychoanalytical investigation. On the other side, the principle of enjoyment removes from the strictly psychoanalytical context and becomes the universal principle which organizes the structural frame of ethical and ideological discourse. In both cases these displacements or metastases signify an irreversible process: the enjoyment organizing different theorethical fields cannot be defined and explained in these fields. The enjoyment means unbearable and traumatic kernel of "the real", which conditions the symbolic universum of psychical, ethical, and ideological work, but cannot be incorporated by this universum.
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spelling doaj.art-048a14b8e50e436bb799f042e698d7562024-03-12T08:11:31ZengVilnius University PressProblemos1392-11262424-61581999-01-0156THE METASTASES OF ENJOYMENT: PSYCHOANALYSIS, ETHICS AND CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGYAudronė Žukauskaitė The principle of enjoyment which is the object of our present investigations can be described by constant "sliding of meaning", caused not only by the polisemy of this concept but also by its dissemination in different areas of theorethical discourse. On the one side, the principle of enjoyment as it is formulated in the field of psychoanalysis, is displaced into the fields of ethics and ideology; this means that ethics and ideology become the object of psychoanalytical investigation. On the other side, the principle of enjoyment removes from the strictly psychoanalytical context and becomes the universal principle which organizes the structural frame of ethical and ideological discourse. In both cases these displacements or metastases signify an irreversible process: the enjoyment organizing different theorethical fields cannot be defined and explained in these fields. The enjoyment means unbearable and traumatic kernel of "the real", which conditions the symbolic universum of psychical, ethical, and ideological work, but cannot be incorporated by this universum. http://localhost/OJS/index.php/problemos/article/view/4213
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title THE METASTASES OF ENJOYMENT: PSYCHOANALYSIS, ETHICS AND CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY
title_full THE METASTASES OF ENJOYMENT: PSYCHOANALYSIS, ETHICS AND CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY
title_fullStr THE METASTASES OF ENJOYMENT: PSYCHOANALYSIS, ETHICS AND CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY
title_full_unstemmed THE METASTASES OF ENJOYMENT: PSYCHOANALYSIS, ETHICS AND CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY
title_short THE METASTASES OF ENJOYMENT: PSYCHOANALYSIS, ETHICS AND CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY
title_sort metastases of enjoyment psychoanalysis ethics and critique of ideology
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