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Discourse of the Capitalist
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==Jacques Lacan==
===Speech===
Whenever [[Lacan]] uses the term "[[discourse]]" (rather than, say, "[[speech]]") it is in order to stress the [[intersubjectivity|transindividual]] nature of [[language]], the fact that [[speech]] always implies another [[subject]], an interlocutor.
Thus =====Discourse of the famous Other=====The term "[[Lacan|Lacanian formuladiscourse]], "the unconscious is the discourse of the Other" designates the used by [[unconsciousLacan]] as the effects on to emphasize the ''[[subjectintersubjectivity|transindividual]] '' nature of '''[[speechlanguage]] ''', the fact that is addressed to him from elsewhere; by another '''[[subjectspeech]] who has been forgotten, by ''' always implies another [[scene|psychic localitysubject]] (the other [[scene]]), an interlocutor.
===Social Bond===In 1969, The '''[[Lacanunconscious]] begins to use ''' is the term "[[discourse|discourse of the Other]]" in a slightly different way, though one that still carries with it the stress effect on the [[subject]] of [[speech]] that is addressed to that [[subject]] from elsewhere, by another [[subject]] (who has been [[memory|forgotten]]), by an [[scene|other scene]] or [[intersubjectivityscene|psychic locality]].
From this point on =====Social Bond=====In 1969, [[Lacan]] begins to use the term designates "[[discourse]]" to denote a "[[discourse|social bond]], founded in [[language]]."<ref>{{S20}} p. 21</ref>
[[Lacan]] He identifies ''four possible '' types of [[discourse|social bondbonds]], four possible articulations of the [[symbolic order|symbolic network]] which regulates [[intersubjectivity|intersubjective relations]].
=====Four Discourses=====These "[[discourse|four discourses]]" are the [[discourse|discourse of the master]], the [[discourse|discourse of the university]], the [[discourse|discourse of the hysteric]], and the [[discourse|discourse of the analyst]].
* the [[discourse]] of the '''[[master]]''',* the [[Lacandiscourse]] represents each of the '''[[four discoursesuniversity]] by an ''',* the [[matheme|algorithmdiscourse]]: each of the '''[[matheme|algorithmhysteric]] contains four ''', and* the [[algebraicdiscourse]] of the '''[[symbolanalyst]]s'''.
=====Four Algorithms=====[[Image:Lacan-fourdiscourselettersLetdis.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Algebra]]ic [[symbol]]s from the [[Four Discourses]]]]
===Four Positions===What distinguishes Each of the [[discourse|four discourses]] from one another is the positions of these represented by an [[matheme|algorithm]] which contains ''four '' [[algebraic]] [[symbol]]s.
There are The names of these ''four positions in the '' [[matheme|algorithmsymbol]]s of are shown to the [[four discourses]], each of which is designated by a different nameright.
The names of the ''four positions are shown below; '' [[Lacansymbol]] gives s correspond to ''four'' different names to these [[discourse|positions at different points ]] in his work, and this figure is taken from each [[matheme|algorithm]] of the 1972-3 seminar.<ref>{{S20}} p[[discourse|four discourses]]. 21</ref>
Each [[Image:Lacan-structurefourdiscourses.jpgmatheme|thumbalgorithm]] of the [[discourse|250pxfour discourses]] has ''four'' different [[discourse|right|The structure of positions]] with which the ''four discourses'' [[symbol]]s correspond.
Each [[discourse]] is defined by writing Image:Discourse-Structure.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The structure of the four [[algebraicdiscourses]] [[symbol]]s in a different position.
The [[discourse|position]] of the ''four'' [[symbol]]s always remain in the same order, so each [[discoursematheme|algorithm]] is simply the result of rotating what distinguishes the [[symboldiscourse|four discourses]]s a quarter turnfrom one another.
The top-left position ("[[discourse|the agentfour discourses]]") is the dominant position which defines are distinguished from one another by the [[discourse|positions]] of these ''four'' [[symbol]]s in each [[matheme|algorithm]].
In addition to Each of the four [[symboldiscourse|four discourses]]s, each is defined by the [[mathemediscourse|algorithmposition]] also contains an arrow going from of the ''four'' [[discourse|agentsymbol]] to the s in its [[discoursematheme|otheralgorithm]].
The names of the ''four'' [[four discoursesdiscourse|positions]] are shown in the figure to the right.<ref>{{S20}} p. 21</ref>
[[Image:Lacan-fourdiscourses.jpg|thumb|right|The four discourses]] ===Arrows===In 1971, [[Lacan]] proposes that the position Discourse of the [[discourse|agent]] is also the position of the [[semblance]].  In 1972, [[Lacan]] inscribes two arrows in the [[matheme|formula]]s instead of one; one arrow (which [[Lacan]] labels "impossibility") goes from the [[discourse|agent]] to the [[discourse|other]], and the other arrow (which is labelled "powerlessness") goes from [[discourse|production]] to [[discourse|truth]].<ref>{{S20}} p.21</ref> Master===Discourse of the Master==[[Image:MASTERDISCOURSEMadis.jpg|thumb|right|[[Discourse]] of the [[Master]]]]
The [[discourse]] of the [[master]] is the basic [[discourse]] from which the other three [[discourse]]s are derived.
The '''dominant position ''' is occupied by the [[master signifier]] ([[Image:SS1.gif]]), which represents the [[subject]] ('''S''') for another [[signifier]] or, more precisely, for all other [[signifiers]] ([[Image:SS2.gif]]); however, in this [[signification|signifying operation ]] there is always a [[surplus]], namely, ''[[objet petit a]]''.
The point is that all attempts at totalisation totalization are doomed to failure.
The [[discourse]] of the [[master]] "masks the [[division ]] of the [[subject]]."<ref>{{S17}} p. 118</ref>
The [[discourse]] also illustrates clearly the [[structure]] of the [[dialectic]] of the [[master]] and the [[master|slave]].
The [[master]] ([[Image:SS1.gif]]) is the [[discourse|agent]] who puts the [[slave]] ([[Image:SS2.gif]]) to work; the result of this work is a [[surplus]] (''[[objet (petit) a|a]]'') that the [[master]] attempts to appropriate.
 ===The ==Discourse of the University=====[[Image:UNIVERSITYDISCOURSEUnidis.jpg|thumb|right|[[Discourse]] of the [[University]]}}]]
The [[discourse]] of the [[university]] is produced by a quarter turn of the [[discourse]] of the [[master]] (anticlockwise).
The [[discourse]] of the [[university]] represents the hegemony of [[knowledge]], particularly visible in modernity in the form of the hegemony of [[science]].
===The ==Discourse of the Hysteric=====[[Image:HYSTERICDISCOURSEHysdis.jpg|thumb|right|[[Discourse]] of the [[Hysteria|Hysteric]]}}]]
The [[discourse]] of the [[hysteric]] is also produced by a quarter turn of the [[discourse]] of the [[master]], but in a clockwise direction.
The dominant position is occupied by the [[split|divided]] [[subject]], the [[symptom]].
This [[discourse]] is that which points the way towards [[knowledge]].<ref>{{S17}} p. 23</ref>.
[[Psychoanalytic treatment]] involves "the structural intro- duction introduction of the [[discourse ]] of the '''[[hysteric ]]''' by means of artificial conditions"; in other words, the [[analyst]] "[[hysteria|hystericises]]" the [[patient]]'s [[discourse]].<ref>{{S17}} p. 35</ref>
===The ==Discourse of the Analyst=====[[Image:ANALYSTDISCOURSEAnadis.jpg|thumb|right|[[Discourse]] of the [[Analyst]]]]
The [[discourse]] of the [[analyst]] is produced by a quarter turn of the [[discourse]] of the [[hysteric]] (in the same way as [[Freud]] developed [[psychoanalysis]] by giving an [[interpretation|interpretative]] turn to the [[discourse]] of his [[hysterical]] [[patient]]s).
The position of the [[discourse|agent]], which is the position occupied by the [[analyst]] in the [[treatment]], is occupied by ''[[objet (petit) a|objet petit a]]''; this illustrates the fact that the [[analyst]] must, in the course of the [[treatment]], become the [[cause]] of the [[analysand]]'s [[desire]].<ref>{{Sl7S17}} p. 41</ref> The fact that this [[discourse]] is the inverse of the [[discourse]] of the [[master]] emphasises that, for [[Lacan]], [[psychoanalysis]] is an essentially subversive practice which undermines all attempts at domination and [[master]]y.
=====Discourse of the Capitalist=====In a few parts of his teaching (notably in his discourse in Milano), Lacan talked about a new kind of discourse which caracterizes our post-modern society: the discourse of the capitalist. The fact that position of the agent, is occupied by the [[subject]] ('''S'''), who does not address the other, but the truth (this position is now occupied by the [[master signifier]] ([[discourseImage:SS1.gif]] is ), the Market). Through the inverse of Market, the [[discoursesubject]] of ('''S''') can ask the [[masterknowledge]] (''[[savoir]] emphasises that''), for ([[LacanImage:SS2.gif]]), Science and Technology to produce objects to be consumed (''[[psychoanalysisobjet petit a]] ''). This objects are made to never feed completely the subject's desire.This discourse is not part of the social bond theory. We notice that, in this discourse (contrary to the four discourses), an essentially subversive practice arrow hits the position of the truth. With the Discourse of the Capitalist, Lacan tried to account for a new kind of social bonds in which undermines all attempts at domination the subject become more and [[master]]ymore individualistic, egoistic. The Market is here the new Truth which cannot be contradicted.<ref>
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