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==Symbolic Death==
<blockquote>"The [[symbol]] is the murder of the [[thing]]."<ref>{{E}} p.104</ref></blockquote>
===Subject Beyond Death===
The [[signifier]] also puts the [[subject]] beyond [[death]], because "the [[signifier]] already considers him [[dead]], by nature it [[immortalise]]s immortalizes him."<ref>{{S3}} 180).
===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}} (1912-13) ''[[Totem and Taboo]]''; [[SE]] XIII, 1</ref>); the [[symbolic]] [[father]] is always a [[dead]] [[father]].
==Second Death==
===First - Material - Death===
In the [[seminar]] of 1959-60, ''[[The Ethics of Psychoanalysis]]'',
[[Lacan]] talks about the "[[second death]]."<ref>{{S7}} p.211</ref>
* 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]]'') designates "the zone in which tragedy is played out."<ref>{{S8}} p.120</ref>
==Philosophical Death==
===Hegel and Heidegger===
[[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 [[Kojève]]), [[Lacan]] takes the idea that [[death]] is both constitutive of [[man]]'s [[freedom]] and "[[Master|the absolute Master]]."<ref>[[Alexandre Kojève|Kojève, Alexandre]] (1947 [1933-39]) ''[[Kojève|Introduction to the Reading of Hegel]]'', trans. James H. Nichols Jr., New York and London: Basic Books, 1969. p.21).
[[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 corresponds to [[Lacan]]'s view that the [[analysand]] should come, via the [[treatment|analytic process]], to assume his own [[mortality]].<ref>{{E}} p.104-5</ref>
==Psychoanalytic Death==
===Dead Analyst===
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>
==Four=Obsessional Neurosis===The question which constitutes the [[structure]] of [[obsessional neurosis]] concerns [[death]]; it is the question "Am I dead or alive?"<ref>{{S3}} p.179-80</ref>
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Analysand]]
* [[Analyst]]
* [[Being]]
* [[Body]]
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* [[Castration complex]]
* [[Death drive]]
* [[Death instinct]]
* [[Desire]]
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* [[Drive]]
* [[Dialectic]]
* [[Existence]]
* [[Father]]
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* ''[[Jouissance]]''
* [[Master]]
* [[Obsessional neurosis]]
* [[Signifier]]
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* [[Subject]]
* [[Symbol]]
* [[Treatment]]
* [[Uncanny]]
{{Also}}
==See Also==
{{See}}
* [[Analysand]]
* [[Analyst]]
* [[Being]]
* [[Body]]
* [[Castration complex]]
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* [[Death drive]]
* [[Death instinct]]
* [[Desire]]
* [[Drive]]
* [[Dialectic]]
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* [[Existence]]
* [[Father]]
* ''[[Jouissance]]''
* [[Master]]
* [[Obsessional neurosis]]
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* [[Signifier]]
* [[Subject]]
* [[Symbol]]
* [[Treatment]]
* [[Uncanny]]
{{Also}}
==References==
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