The four-dimensional theses for one fundamental synthesis: Lacan’s subject as the subject of resistance
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This article aims to explore Jacques Lacan’s idea of the subject, which is sporadic in his writings and teachings. It argues that Lacan’s subject is and will always be the subject of resistance. To understand the nature of the Lacanian subject, this inquiry focuses on four fundamental theses: (1) mirror-stage, (2) negation, (3) trauma, and (4) woman. The article takes on a philosophical task in this regard. The synthesis of all the theses suggests that Lacan’s subject is the subject of resistance. This type of subject is preoccupied with agility, movement, speech, and action, which nurtures a dissonance from the consecutive consonance posited by the Other. Its presence marks the logic of disruptive ego-consciousness. Lacan compels everyone to negate ego-consciousness as a true locus of the subject. This marks a flamboyant declaration of independence of Lacan’s disjunctive synthesis about the subject as a revolutionary subject. It is unlike the conceptualisation of the subject that is consistently envisioned in a psychoanalytic community under the dominance of scientific behaviouralists such as Erik Erikson’s focus on ego identity and Carl Jung’s optimism of the unity of consciousness and the unconscious of the subject.
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