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lThe term "[[death]]" occurs in various contexts in [[Lacan]]'s [[work]]. ===Symbolic Death ===[[Death]] is constitutive of the [[symbolic ]] [[order]], because the [[symbol]], by standing in [[place ]] of the [[thing ]] which it symbolises[[symbolization|symbolizes]], is equivalent to the [[death ]] of the that [[thing]]: 'the <blockquote>"The [[symbol ]] is the [[murder ]] of the [[thing' (]]."<ref>{{E, }} p. 104). Also, </ref></blockquote> ====Death of the 'first symbol' in human history is the tomb (E, 104). Subject====It is only by virtue of the [[signifier ]] that man the [[subject]] has access to and can conceive of his own [[death; ']]: <blockquote>"It is in the signifier and insofar as [[The Subject|the subject ]] articulates a signifying [[chain ]] that he comesup comes up against the fact that he may [[disappear ]] from the chain of what he is' (."<ref>{{S7, }} p. 295). </ref></blockquote> ===Subject Beyond Death===The [[signifier ]] also puts the [[subject ]] beyond [[death]], because '"the [[signifier ]] already considers him [[dead]], by [[nature ]] it immortalises immortalizes him' (."<ref>{{S3, }} p. 180). </ref> ====Dead Father====[[Death ]] in the [[symbolic order ]] is related to the [[death ]] of the [[Father ]] (i.e. the murder of the [[father ]] of the [[horde ]] in ''[[Totem and Taboo]]''<ref>{{F}} ''[[Totem and Taboo; Freud]]'', 1912-13. [[SE]] XIII, 1</ref>); the [[symbolic ]] [[father ]] is always a [[dead ]] [[father]].2. ===Second Death=======First Death====In the [[seminar ]] of 1959-60, ''[[The Ethics of Psychoanalysis]]'', [[Lacan ]] talks [[about ]] the '"[[second death' (a phrase which he coins in reference to a passage from the Marquis de Sade's novel Juliette, in which one of the characters speaks of a 'second life', see Sade, 1797: 772, quoted in ]]."<ref>{{S7, }} p. 211). </ref> The [[death|first death ]] is the [[materialism|physical ]] [[death ]] of the [[body, a ]]. The [[death|first death which ]] ends one [[human|human life ]] but which does not put an end to the cycles of corruption and regeneration. The [[death|second death ]] is that which prevents the regeneration of the [[dead ]] [[body]], '"the point at which the very cycles of the transformations of nature are annihilated' (."<ref>{{S7}} p. 248</ref> ====Beauty, Being, 248). Pain====The [[concept ]] of the [[second death ]] is used by [[Lacan ]] to formulate [[ideas ]] on various themes: * beauty (S7, 260] it - "It is the function of beauty to reveal man's [[relationship ]] to his own death - ."<ref>{{S7}} p. 260, 299); </ref>* the direct relationship to [[being (]];<ref>{{S7, }} p. 285); </ref> and * the [[sadistic ]] [[fantasy ]] of inflicting perpetual [[pain (]]<ref>{{S7, }} p. 295). </ref> ====Between the Two Deaths====The phrase '"[[zone between-two-deaths]]" (' ('[[l'espace de l'entre-deux-morts), which was originally coined by one of Lacan]]''s students (see S7, 320), is taken up by Lacan to designate 'designates "the zone in which [[tragedy ]] is played out' (."<ref>{{S8, }} p. 120).</ref> ===Philosophical Death=======Hegel and Heidegger====3. [[Death ]] plays an important [[role ]] in the [[philosophical ]] systems of [[Hegel ]] and [[Heidegger]], and [[Lacan ]] draws on both of these in his theorisation of the role of [[death ]] in [[psychoanalysis]]. ===="Absolute Master"====From [[Hegel ]] (via KojËve[[Kojève]]), [[Lacan ]] takes the [[idea ]] that [[death ]] is both constitutive of [[man]]'s [[freedom ]] and '"[[Master|the absolute Master]]."<ref>[[Alexandre Kojève|Kojève, Alexandre]] ''[[Kojève|Introduction to the Reading of Hegel]]'' (KojËve, 1947trans. [[James]] H. Nichols Jr., New York and [[London]]: Basic Books, 1969. [1933-39] p. 21). </ref> [[Death ]] plays a crucial part in the [[Hegelian ]] [[dialectic ]] of the [[master]] and the [[slave ]] where it is intimately linked with [[desire]], since the [[master ]] only affirms himself for [[others ]] by means of a [[desire ]] for [[death (]].<ref>{{E, }} p. 105). </ref> ===="Being-For-Death"====From [[Heidegger]], [[Lacan ]] takes the idea that [[human ]] [[existence ]] only takes on [[meaning ]] by virtue of the finite [[limit ]] set by [[death]], so that the [[human ]] [[subject ]] is properly a '"[[death|being-for-death'; this ]]". This corresponds to [[Lacan]]'s view that the [[analysand ]] should come, via the [[treatment|analytic process]], to assume his own [[mortality (]].<ref>{{E, }} pp. 104-5).</ref> ==Psychoanalytic Death=====Dead Analyst===4. In his comparison between [[psychoanalytic treatment ]] and the [[game ]] of bridge, [[Lacan ]] describes the [[analyst ]] as playing the [[position ]] of the '"dummy' " (in [[French]], ''le mort''; literally, '"the dead person'"). ' <blockquote>"The analyst intervenes concretely in the dialectic of [[analysis ]] by pretending that he is dead . . . he makes death [[present' (]]."<ref>{{E, }} p. 140). </ref></blockquote> The [[analyst ']] "cadaverises' " himself (''se corpsifiat'').5. ===Obsessional Neurosis===The question which constitutes the [[structure ]] of [[obsessional neurosis]] concerns [[death]]; it is the question '"Am I dead or aliveT (alive?"<ref>{{S3, }} pp. 179-80).</ref> ==See Also=={{See}}* [[Analysand]]* [[Analyst]]* [[Being]]* [[Body]]||* [[Castration complex]]* [[Death drive]]* [[Death instinct]]* [[Desire]]||* [[Drive]]* [[Dialectic]]* [[Existence]]* [[Father]]||* ''[[Jouissance]]''* [[Master]]* [[Obsessional neurosis]]* [[Signifier]]||* [[Subject]]* [[Symbol]]* [[Treatment]]* [[Uncanny]]{{Also}} ==References==<div style="font-size:11px" class="references-small"><references/></div> [[Category:Psychoanalysis]][[Category:Jacques Lacan]][[Category:Symbolic]][[Category:Real]][[Category:Dictionary]][[Category:Concepts]][[Category:Terms]]{{OK}} __NOTOC__
