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Lacanian Ink 13: The Pairing-Symptom

Lacanian Ink 13: The Pairing-Symptom

Richard Foreman
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In "Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple," Slavoj Zizek argues that of all the couples in modern thought Kant and Sade is perhaps the most problematic: "the statement 'Kant IS Sade' is the 'infinite judgement' of modern ethics, positing the sign of equation between the two radical opposites, asserting that the sublime disinteresed ethical attitude is somehow identical to, or overlaps with, the unrestrained indulgence in pleasurable violence. A lot, perhaps everything, is at stake here: is there a line from Kantian formalist ethics to the cold-blooded Auschwitz killing machine? Are concentration camps and killing as a neutral business the inherent outcome of the enlightened insistence on the autonomy of Reason? Is there at least a legitimate lineage from Sade to Fascist torturing, as is implied by Pasolini's film version of 'Saló', which transposes it into the dark days of Mussolini's Saló republic? Lacan developed this link first in his seminar 'The Ethics of Psychoanalysis' and then in 'Kant with Sade' ."
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Paperback
Release
October 05, 1998
ISBN 13
9781888301021

Lacanian Ink 13: The Pairing-Symptom

Richard Foreman
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
In "Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple," Slavoj Zizek argues that of all the couples in modern thought Kant and Sade is perhaps the most problematic: "the statement 'Kant IS Sade' is the 'infinite judgement' of modern ethics, positing the sign of equation between the two radical opposites, asserting that the sublime disinteresed ethical attitude is somehow identical to, or overlaps with, the unrestrained indulgence in pleasurable violence. A lot, perhaps everything, is at stake here: is there a line from Kantian formalist ethics to the cold-blooded Auschwitz killing machine? Are concentration camps and killing as a neutral business the inherent outcome of the enlightened insistence on the autonomy of Reason? Is there at least a legitimate lineage from Sade to Fascist torturing, as is implied by Pasolini's film version of 'Saló', which transposes it into the dark days of Mussolini's Saló republic? Lacan developed this link first in his seminar 'The Ethics of Psychoanalysis' and then in 'Kant with Sade' ."
Language
English
Pages
128
Format
Paperback
Release
October 05, 1998
ISBN 13
9781888301021

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