Pragnienie Realnego albo fantazmat Zewnętrza wśród nędzy językowo zdefiniowanego świata
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2011
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM w Poznaniu
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The desire of the Real or the phantasm of the Outside amidst the misery of the linguistically defined world
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In my article I reconstruct the Lacanian notion of the Symbolical and explain why language constitutes
its most important domain. Following Kojève, I argue that language introduces to the human
world an insurmountable negativity – the “deadness of the word” which substitutes the continuity
of a world experienced in its immediate intensity with a symbolical representation and conceptualization.
The order of the symbolical, identified with cultural order, is further on confronted with
the order of the real which after Lacan, and especially after Žižek, I understand as a metaphor of
an inaccessible, non-phenomenological experience lived beyond consciousness and culture, that
is in the phantasmatic Outside. I trace various figures and intuitions of thus conceived “Outside”
in thinkers such as Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas and Georges Bataille and I argue that at
issue in their works might have been an intriguingly novel way of thinking about communication.
In conclusion I tackle the question why the discussed path of contemporary French philosophy is
worth elaboration, positing it all the while as a project of strictly utopian character.
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Przestrzenie Teorii, nr 16, 2011, str. 97-112
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978-83-232-2337-5
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1644-6763