The Paradoxical Nature of the Subject’s Extimate Core

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Aron gave a great paper yesterday, and I secretly recorded it. If you use itunes, you’ll be able to see a couple pictures that I snapped of him during the presentation.

Have a nice weekend,

-dan

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  1. 1 Janet Leslie Blumberg
    03/31/2008 at 16:15

    Thanks so much, Dan, for recording. It was great listening to Aron’s talk, except when he mumbled…. Is the paper itself available as a supplement to the tape? And could you, Aron, put those titles you alluded to, by Fink on Lacan, here, too? This is really really great stuff!

  2. 2 Janet Leslie Blumberg
    04/23/2008 at 18:54

    Okay, I’ll have more for A.D. about his paper (as soon as I have time), but I would like to say quickly that I am really disoriented and knocked back on my heels with surprise by the way that Lacan moves the “mirroring” phase of infant-formation from the Imaginary (Mother/Other) stage (or axis) to the Symbolic stage (or axis).

    So that what(ever) the infant reads in the Mother’s face as Imaginary mirror of the “I” is eclipsed by the far greater fatality located in the mirrorings involving the death of the Father in the Symbolic…? This fascinates me — any more to say?

    I think the paper makes some very helpful things about Lacan very clear.

    Also, I find this dynamics of the “extimate core” everywhere I look now. It is beautiful in Levinas’ _Humanism of the Other_, which I think you, A.D., and Dan and your readers would enjoy and appreciate.

  3. 3 A.D.
    04/24/2008 at 12:14

    Well, the imaginary definitely doesn’t end when the symbolic shows up: as Elie Ragland says: the symbolic impact on the imaginary is what is real (or something like that), the point being that the three rings are always present together, and the dynamics of mirroring and aggression echo deep into the real and symbolic orders. Lacan noted that real advances in knowledge only happen during times of fierce rivalry, such as Augustine vs. Pelagius, Thomas vs. Scotus, Lacan vs. neo-Freudians, predator vs. alien, and so forth

  4. 4 Janet Leslie Blumberg
    04/24/2008 at 16:33

    Or…. between analytical philosophy and Continental philosophy?

    Or more broadly, between analytical philosophy taken along with its cousins, Chomskian linguistics, computer models of the brain, etc., versus Continental philosophy, along with its poststructuralist linguistics and semiotics?

    That’s a good answer. Thanks!

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