Discourse of the Hysteric

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1. #01

   Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis · Todd McGowan · p.194

   I > Against Knowledge > Th e Emergence of University Discourse

   Theoretical move: The transition from the Discourse of the Master to the Discourse of the University does not end mastery but relocates the Master Signifier from the position of agent to the position of truth, making mastery more concealed and thus more effective — expert authority ultimately serves the hidden master, functioning as a retooling of domination under capitalist conditions.

   Hysterical discourse (which places the divided subject who is constantly questioning in the position of the agent and the master signifier who lacks the answers in the position of the other) becomes the chief form that oppositional social movements take up.

2. #02

   Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis · Todd McGowan · p.333

   I > Th e Case of the Missing Signifi er > Notes > 7. Against Knowledge

   Theoretical move: This endnotes section performs several theoretical micro-moves: it distinguishes the master signifier's exceptional status from the general equivalent in capitalism, argues that knowledge-intrusion converts pleasure into jouissance, and clarifies how hysterical discourse structurally returns to the discourse of the master, while also linking sexuation to the asymmetry of the superego between male and female subjects.

   The agent in hysterical discourse is the divided subject itself, which creates a problem for a social link grounded on this discursive structure. Because the divided subject constantly seeks a master to heal its division, hysterical discourse leads back to the discourse of the master.

3. #03

   An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis · Dylan Evans

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   Theoretical move: This passage (from Evans's introductory dictionary) articulates three interconnected Lacanian theoretical moves: (1) hallucination as the return of the foreclosed Name-of-the-Father in the Real; (2) helplessness (Hilflosigkeit) as grounding both the subject's constitutive dependence on language and the end of analysis as subjective destitution; and (3) hysteria redefined as a clinical structure organised around the question of sexual position and the desire of the Other, distinct from mere symptomatology.

   Hysteria, as a clinical structure, must be distinguished from Lacan's concept of the DISCOURSE of the hysteric, which designates a particular form of social bond.

4. #04

   An Introductory Dictionary of Lacanian Psychoanalysis · Dylan Evans

   <span id="9781134780112_Part14.xhtml_ncx_43"></span><span id="9781134780112_Part14.xhtml_page_0056"></span>***D*** > <span id="9781134780112_Part14.xhtml_ncx_54"></span><span id="9781134780112_Part14.xhtml_page_0069"></span>**discourse**

   Theoretical move: The passage systematically presents Lacan's theory of the Four Discourses as four possible social bonds founded in language, each defined by rotating four algebraic symbols (S1, S2, $, a) through four structural positions, with the discourse of the master as the generative base from which the others derive—and with the discourse of the analyst positioned as the structural inverse of mastery, making psychoanalysis inherently subversive.

   The dominant position is occupied by the divided subject, the symptom. This discourse is that which points the way towards knowledge... the analyst 'hystericises' the patient's discourse.

5. #05

   Seminar XVI · From an Other to the other · Jacques Lacan · p.388

   Seminar 25: Wednesday 25 June 1969

   Theoretical move: Lacan formalizes the subject's constitution through the fantasy ($◇a) and the Four Discourses schema, arguing that knowledge born from the slave serves the master, that the objet petit a as surplus-jouissance is the structural stake in the Master/Slave dialectic, and that the Discourse of the University is the hommelle (alma mater) whose subjection effects on students mirror the hysteric's truth-telling function—making the political question of revolution inseparable from the psychoanalytic question of knowledge and the subject.

   Along what path then did the master come to know what he was doing? In accordance with the schema that I gave you earlier, along the hysterical path

6. #06

   Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.46

   *[A porter appears]*

   Theoretical move: Lacan argues that the Discourse of the Hysteric underlies both philosophical discourse (Hegel as "the most sublime of hysterics") and analytic experience, and that the structure of psychoanalytic interpretation operates through a logic of the "half-said" — figured as either a riddle (stating without statement) or a quotation (statement invoking authorial authority) — with the analyst functioning as Objet petit a and cause of desire rather than Subject Supposed to Know.

   the kinship I establish between the philosophical discourse and the discourse of the hysteric, since it seems that the philosophical discourse animated the Master with a desire to know

7. #07

   Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.15

   **THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN BOOK XVII** > **Seminar 1: Wednesday 26 November 1969**

   Theoretical move: Lacan introduces the four discourses as a structural apparatus, anchoring the Discourse of the Master in the S1→S2 relation and grounding this structure in the Freudian articulation of the signifier, jouissance, and surplus-jouissance, while aligning the slave's knowledge (S2) with the philosophical operation of extracting know-how from the slave as the inaugural move of philosophy itself.

   This one, the second on the blackboard, is the discourse of the hysteric.

8. #08

   Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.44

   *[A porter appears]*

   Theoretical move: Lacan argues that the transition from the ancient Master's discourse to modern capitalism/bureaucracy involves a displacement of knowledge (S2) into the dominant position, producing a new tyranny that occludes truth; and that psychoanalytic experience operates by introducing the Hysteric's discourse as a structural condition ("hystericisation") that exposes the non-self-knowing character of unconscious knowledge and the impossibility of sexual rapport.

   it is the hystericisation of discourse. In other words, it is the structural introduction, under artificial conditions, of the discourse of the Hysteric.

9. #09

   Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.124

   Seminar 8: Wednesday 11 March 1970

   Theoretical move: The passage argues that the Discourse of the Analyst is structurally derived from—and is the inversion of—the Discourse of the Master: where the Master's discourse masks the divided subject at the place of truth, the analyst's discourse installs the objet petit a in the commanding place, thereby liberating the Splitting of the Subject and the half-said truth it conceals. This structural comparison also diagnoses the Discourse of the University as science's imperative ("Keep on knowing"), driven by the Master Signifier concealed at the place of truth.

   this in the Hysteric's discourse, in order for it to be in effect quite certain that the subject is placed before this vel that is expressed in either I do not think or I am not

10. #10

    Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.91

    *[A porter appears]*

    Theoretical move: Lacan argues that phallic enjoyment is structurally excluded from the social-libidinal economy, and that this exclusion—not biological sexuality—is what Freudian discourse is fundamentally about; the repetition compulsion discovered in *Beyond the Pleasure Principle* is reread as the commemoration of an irruption of jouissance, while surplus-jouissance is positioned as the substitute system that operates in place of prohibited phallic enjoyment.

    what Freud was able to extract from the discourse of the Hysteric.

11. #11

    Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.118

    *[A porter appears]* > Seminar 7: Wednesday 18 February 1970

    Theoretical move: Lacan uses the Dora case to argue that Freud's substitution of the Oedipus complex for the truths offered by hysterical experience was a defensive idealization that masked the fundamental truth — audible in the hysteric's discourse — that the father/master is castrated from the start; this leads to a critique of the Oedipus myth as an unworkable, quasi-religious fiction that displaces the proper analytic relation between knowledge and truth.

    it gives its place and its vital function to the discourse of the Hysteric with respect to the discourse of the Master - is reduplicated on the one hand in the castration of the idealised father

12. #12

    Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.70

    *[A porter appears]*

    Theoretical move: Lacan argues that enjoyment (jouissance) is constitutively grounded in loss/entropy, and that this structural gap—formalized as surplus-jouissance (Mehrlust)—is what drives knowledge as a means of enjoyment, necessitating the Four Discourses as its articulation; simultaneously, truth is identified not with full-saying but with half-saying, its essence being the concealed fact of castration/impotence, which redefines the analyst's position and the analytic act.

    the discourse of the Master, that of the Hysteric, which I put in the middle today, and finally the discourse that is of great interest to us here... the discourse of the University.

13. #13

    Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.30

    **ANALYTICON** > **X:** You mean a relative deafness.

    Theoretical move: Lacan uses the Vincennes "Analyticon" confrontation to demonstrate in vivo how the Four Discourses operate: the University discourse produces students as surplus-value/Objet petit a, the Hysteric's discourse enabled the Marxian discovery of historical symptoms, and the gap/incompleteness structurally irreducible to each discourse refutes any totality ("nothing is all").

    In the discourse of the Hysteric, which is what has made possible the decisive shift by giving its sense to what Marx historically spelled out, namely, that there are historical events that can only be judged in terms of symptoms.

14. #14

    Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.112

    *[A porter appears]* > Seminar 7: Wednesday 18 February 1970

    Theoretical move: Lacan uses the Dora case to demonstrate the structural logic of the Discourse of the Hysteric: the hysteric maintains an alienated relation to the master-signifier (the idealised father) precisely by refusing to surrender knowledge and by orienting desire around the Other's enjoyment rather than her own, thereby unmasking the master's function while remaining in solidarity with it.

    Here is where the discourse of the Hysteric shows its worth. It has the merit of maintaining the question of what is involved in sexual relations in the setting up of a discourse

15. #15

    Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.85

    *[A porter appears]*

    Theoretical move: Lacan argues that language uses subjects rather than being used by them — enjoyment is the motor of discourse — and that truth stands in a sisterly relation to forbidden enjoyment, a relation legible only from within the discourse of the Hysteric. He frames this against Sade's theoretical masochism (the second death), Freud's discourse on the unconscious as self-speaking knowledge, and a sustained critique of Ego Psychology as a regression to the discourse of the Master.

    Except by stating it in the discourse of the Hysteric. We will have to develop this.

16. #16

    Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.20

    **ANALYTICON**

    Theoretical move: Lacan distinguishes the four discourses (Master, Hysteric, University, Analyst) and argues that psychoanalytic knowledge cannot be transmitted like ordinary university knowledge, because the being of the psychoanalyst—what is produced when a psychoanalysand commits to becoming an analyst—is the real question, a point left open in his seminar on the psychoanalytic act.

    the discourse of the Hysteric. This is very important because it is with this that the discourse of the psychoanalyst takes shape (se dessine). Except that there would have to be some psychoanalysts.

17. #17

    Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.57

    *[A porter appears]*

    Theoretical move: Lacan introduces and distinguishes the Four Discourses (Master, Hysteric, Analyst, University) by identifying the structural "dominant" place each discourse organizes around — locating the objet petit a as what occupies the dominant place in the Discourse of the Analyst — while simultaneously critiquing how University discourse systematically reverses his formula ("language is the condition of the unconscious") and thus distorts analytic discourse.

    In the discourse of the Hysteric, it is clear that we see this dominant appear in the form of the symptom. It is around the symptom that there is situated and organised what is involved in the Hysteric's discourse.

18. #18

    Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.265

    **ANALYTICON** > Seminar 14: Wednesday 10 June 1970

    Theoretical move: Lacan argues that the impossibility structuring each of the Four Discourses is grounded in the problem of surplus-jouissance: ancient thought (Aristotle, Stoics) could not account for it, Hegel re-staged it, Marx made it calculable as surplus-value thereby stabilising the Master Signifier, while the University discourse symptomatically produces the student as objet petit a — miscarriage of the cause of desire. The key to any revolutionary step lies not in the subject but in questioning what enjoyment is, a question made possible only by the entry of the signifier and its mark of death.

    Let us now take the discourse of the Hysteric as it is articulated... the division, the symptomatic tearing apart of the hysteric, is justified as production of knowledge. Her truth is that she must be the o-object in order to be desired.

19. #19

    Seminar XVII · The Other Side of Psychoanalysis · Jacques Lacan · p.19

    **THE SEMINAR OF JACQUES LACAN BOOK XVII** > **Seminar 1: Wednesday 26 November 1969**

    Theoretical move: Lacan argues that philosophy's historical function is the betrayal and expropriation of the slave's knowledge (*episteme*) in order to transmute it into the Master's knowledge, and that it is only by breaking from this wrongly-acquired knowledge — through Descartes's extraction of the subject — that modern science is born; moreover, the desire to know is radically distinct from knowledge itself, and it is the hysteric's discourse, not the Master's will, that actually leads to knowledge.

    What leads to knowledge is the hysteric's discourse.

20. #20

    Seminar XVIII · On a Discourse That Might Not Be a Semblance · Jacques Lacan · p.21

    **Seminar [l:\Vednesday](file://l:/Vednesday) 13 January 1971** > **Seminar 2: Wednesday 20 January 1971**

    Theoretical move: Lacan designates the unnamed "top-left" place in the Four Discourses as the place of the *semblance*, establishing that the semblance is not the contrary of truth but its strictly correlative dimension (*demansion*), and that scientific discourse reaches the real only through the algebraic articulation of semblance—where the real appears as the impossible hole in that semblance.

    when the subject in its division, fundamental for the unconscious, is in place there, I speak about the discourse of the Hysteric

21. #21

    Seminar XVIII · On a Discourse That Might Not Be a Semblance · Jacques Lacan · p.176

    **Seminar 8: Wednesday 19 May 1971** > **Seminar 10: Wednesday 16 June 1971**

    Theoretical move: Lacan argues that every discourse is structured as a semblance, and that the four discourses—particularly analytic discourse—circle around the fundamental impossibility of the sexual relationship, a void that is managed (but never resolved) through the composition of jouissance and castration; surplus-jouissance, as the Freudian analogue of Marxian surplus value, names the point where the semblance of discourse is anchored to this constitutive gap.

    of the discourse that I privileged with the term of Hysteric

22. #22

    Seminar XIX bis · The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst · Jacques Lacan · p.25

    The Psychoanalyst's Knowledge

    Theoretical move: Lacan argues that the objet petit a is not a localized object but the very tetrahedral structure of the four discourses, and that each discourse constitutively prevents its own agent from comprehending it — the analyst included — because it is castration (as a gap) that guarantees the Real from which all discourse stems.

    Let us say no more about the Hysterical discourse, it is scientific discourse itself.

23. #23

    Seminar XIX bis · The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst · Jacques Lacan · p.80

    The Psychoanalyst's Knowledge > I ASK YOU TO REFUSE WHAT I AM OFFERING YOU.

    Theoretical move: Lacan argues that the formulas of sexuation cannot be read through standard propositional logic (negation, conjunction, disjunction) because the phallic function governs both sexes asymmetrically: the masculine side is structured by a universal ('All x') grounded in an exception ('there exists an x that negates φx'), while the feminine side is 'not-all' within the phallic function, which opens onto a dual, properly feminine jouissance irreducible to phallic jouissance—and it is precisely this asymmetry that marks the non-existence of the sexual relationship.

    a style of discourse which is absolutely not that of the Hysteric, but the one that I inscribed in terms of a quadripodic division as being the analytic discourse

24. #24

    Seminar XIX bis · The Knowledge of the Psychoanalyst · Jacques Lacan · p.54

    The Psychoanalyst's Knowledge

    Theoretical move: Lacan uses the topology of the tetrahedron to ground the Four Discourses as a structural necessity derived from the properties of four points in space, then pivots to the question of the function of speech as the unique form of action that posits itself as truth—establishing the epistemological basis for the knowledge of the psychoanalyst.

    The discourse described as that of the Master The discourse of the University / The discourse of the Analyst The discourse of the Hysteric

25. #25

    Seminar XX · Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge · Jacques Lacan · p.51

    **II** > Love and the signifier

    Theoretical move: Lacan argues that the signifier is characterized by contingency rather than eternity, and that this contingency (figured through creationism, the *ex nihilo*, and the Copernican/Newtonian revolution) grounds his central claim that love compensates for the absence of the sexual relationship — a relation only accessible through the function of the phallus as that which is articulated on the basis of absence. The "revolution" Lacan values is not a change of center but the shift from "it turns" to "it falls," marking the real subversion of the signified's routine.

    The hysteric's discourse taught him about that other substance, which consists entirely in the fact that there are signifiers (il y a du signifiant). Having apprehended the effect of the signifier in the hysteric's discourse, he managed to turn the latter by the quarter turn that made it into analytic discourse.

26. #26

    Seminar XX · Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge · Jacques Lacan · p.26

    **II** > To Jakobson

    Theoretical move: Lacan carves out "linguistricks" (linguisterie) as a domain distinct from Jakobson's linguistics proper, arguing that the consequences of "the unconscious is structured like a language" exceed linguistics and belong to a separate field grounded in the psychoanalytic discourse; he then deploys the Four Discourses to show that love—as opposed to jouissance of the Other—is the sign of a shift between discourses, with the emergence of analytic discourse marking every such transition.

    Hysteric's Discourse … a … impotence … Si

27. #27

    Seminar XX · Encore: On Feminine Sexuality, the Limits of Love and Knowledge · Jacques Lacan · p.99

    Semina r **5:** Wednesday **16 January 1973**

    Theoretical move: Lacan uses the "Copernican revolution" as a foil to argue that genuine subversion lies not in changing a centre but in substituting a new formal principle ('things fall', expressed as Newton's law of gravity written down) — an argument that privileges the function of the written over imaginary, sphere-centred thinking, while reframing the phallus, the Other, love, and the sign as the year's key compass-points.

    from what the discourse of the hysteric had taught him, namely, from this other substance which, stems entirely from the fact that there is something of the signifier.

28. #28

    Seminar VIII · Transference · Jacques Lacan · p.122

    **M EDICAL H A R M O N Y** > *AGATH ON*

    Theoretical move: Lacan argues that Agathon's speech in the Symposium is a deliberately ironic, "macaronic" discourse in which the tragic poet reveals love as what is radically unclassifiable and always inopportune — always lagging behind — and that this comic-tragic ambivalence is structurally necessary: in the Christian context, love fills the void left by the inexorable fatal oracle and the commandment of the second death, which can no longer be sustained.

    it is the tragic poet who gives the only speech about love that is openly and completely derisory.

29. #29

    Subject Lessons: Hegel, Lacan, and the Future of Materialism · Russell Sbriglia & Slavoj Žižek (eds.) · p.193

    Who Cares? > The Human Object > The Master and the Pervert

    Theoretical move: Psychoanalysis is positioned as the necessary ethical corrective to new materialism's symptomatic attachment to the jouissance it ostensibly critiques: rather than speculating beyond consciousness, psychoanalysis works from within to expose the human's non-coincidence with itself, grounding a genuine ethics of singularity against both correlationism and its critics.

    new materialism can amount to little more than a hysterical provocation. It can expose the faults in the master's discourse, which is indeed a legitimate foundation from which to mount a true and radical challenge

30. #30

    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink · p.155

    THE PHALLUS: ONE OF W~ S PARTNERS > **The Analyst's Discourse**

    Theoretical move: The passage argues that the Discourse of the Analyst, structured around objet petit a as agent, necessarily hystericizes the analysand by placing the divided subject on the 'firing line', forcing Master Signifiers produced through association into dialectical relation with the signifying chain — a process whose motor force is the analyst's pure desirousness.

    while the analyst adopts the analytic discourse, the analysand is inevitably, in the course of analysis, hystericized. The analysand, regardless of his or her clinical structure … is backed into the hysteric's discourse.

31. #31

    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink · p.153

    THE PHALLUS: ONE OF W~ S PARTNERS > **The Hysteric's Discourse**

    Theoretical move: The passage argues that the Hysteric's Discourse is structurally homologous with the discourse of science because both are driven by the Real (object a as truth) and by the imperative to expose the incompleteness of knowledge rather than systematize it — thus Lacan's eventual identification of the two discourses is grounded in their shared orientation toward the impossible and the unfillable hole in any knowledge-set.

    the split subject occupies the dominant position and addresses S1, calling it into question... The hysteric maintains the primacy of subjective division, the contradiction between conscious and unconscious, and thus the conflictual, or self-contradictory, nature of desire itself.

32. #32

    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink · p.152

    THE PHALLUS: ONE OF W~ S PARTNERS > <span id="page-150-0"></span>**The University Discourse**

    Theoretical move: The university discourse is theorised as a historical rationalization of the master's discourse, where systematic knowledge displaces the master signifier in the commanding position while producing the alienated, divided subject as its remainder — and this structural function of mere rationalization is contrasted with genuine scientific work, which Lacan re-aligns with the hysteric's discourse.

    he later dissociates true scientific work from the university discourse, associating it instead with the hysteric's discourse... Lacan's view of genuine scientific activity... does correspond to the structure of the hysteric's discourse.

33. #33

    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink · p.163

    <span id="page-156-0"></span>Psychoanalysis and Science > **The Three Registers and Differently "Polarized" Discourses**

    Theoretical move: Lacan's late discourse theory in Seminar XXI reorganizes discourses not by agent/position (as in the four discourses) but by the sequential *order* in which the three registers (RSI/IRS/etc.) are traversed, and this allows Fink to argue that psychoanalysis—as an IRS discourse that "imagines the real of the symbolic"—is a praxis unifying theory and clinical practice, sharing this orientation with mathematics and potentially the best of science.

    psychoanalytic *theory building* ideally comes under the hysteric's discourse, as I said earlier

34. #34

    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink · p.165

    <span id="page-156-0"></span>Psychoanalysis and Science > **The Status of Psychoanalysis**

    Theoretical move: Psychoanalysis is positioned as a distinct, independent discourse that shares formal features with scientific discourse (both being "IRS discourses") without being reducible to science; rather, psychoanalysis illuminates the structural conditions of scientific discourse itself, while pursuing its own forms of rigor through mathemization and clinical differentiation.

    they allow us to situate 'true' scientific endeavor as part and parcel of the hysteric's discourse.

35. #35

    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink · p.168

    <span id="page-156-0"></span>Psychoanalysis and Science > **The Ethics of Lacanian Psychoanalysis**

    Theoretical move: Fink argues that Lacanian psychoanalysis is constitutively a praxis of jouissance rather than a pragmatic social therapy, and that its proper teaching discourse is the hysteric's discourse—one that perpetually challenges authority and resists systematization—while also staging a methodological argument about the peculiar temporal logic required to read Lacan, against the American academic demand for immediate critical mastery.

    Lacan's discourse as a teacher seems to come under the discourse of the hysteric, a discourse that never accepts authority for authority's sake... The best teaching discourse is the hysteric's discourse, which Lacan associates with the best scientific activity.

36. #36

    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink · p.149

    THE PHALLUS: ONE OF W~ S PARTNERS > <span id="page-147-0"></span>**The** Four Discourses

    Theoretical move: The Four Discourses are introduced as structural matrices governing different social bonds, with the Master's Discourse functioning as the primary or originary discourse from which the other three are generated by quarter-turn rotations; each discourse's positions (agent, truth, other, product/loss) assign different roles to the same four mathemes (S1, S2, $, a), making discourse a structural — not psychological — category.

    while Lacan terms one of his discourses the 'hysteric's discourse,' he does not mean thereby that a given hysteric always and inescapably adopts or functions within the hysteric's discourse.

37. #37

    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink · p.158

    <span id="page-156-0"></span>Psychoanalysis and Science > Science as Discourse

    Theoretical move: By treating science as a discourse rather than a privileged epistemological category, Fink deploys Lacan's discourse theory to dethrone Science and show that its claim to rationality is merely one among several competing discursional logics, some of which are mappable onto the university or hysteric's discourse.

    some under the hysteric's discourse, and so on.

38. #38

    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink · p.219

    <span id="page-191-0"></span>*Glossary of Lacanian Symbols* \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ \_ > <span id="page-216-0"></span>**Chapter 9**

    Theoretical move: This passage consists of scholarly endnotes for chapters on the Four Discourses, Psychoanalysis and Science, and an Afterword — it is largely bibliographic and referential, but contains several load-bearing theoretical asides: that the specific ordering of mathemes in the Four Discourses is constitutive (not merely combinatorial), that object (a) is the remainder left over after science's symbolization of the real, and that there is always a limit to formalization.

    getting involved in teaching, analytic discourse leads the analyst to the analysand's position, which requires the adoption of the hysteric's discourse.

39. #39

    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink · p.127

    <span id="page-116-0"></span>There's No Such Thing as a Sexual Relationship > **"There's no Such Thing** as a **Sexual Relationship"**

    Theoretical move: Lacan's formula "there's no such thing as a sexual relationship" is grounded in the claim that masculinity and femininity are defined separately and differently with respect to the symbolic order—not in relation to each other—such that each sex has a distinct mode of alienation by language and a distinct form of jouissance, making any direct complementary relation between them structurally impossible.

    Feminine structure thus bears close affinities to hysteria as defined in the hysteric's discourse (see Seminar XVII).

40. #40

    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink · p.161

    <span id="page-156-0"></span>Psychoanalysis and Science > **Science, the Hysteric's Discourse, and Psychoanalytic Theory**

    Theoretical move: Fink argues that psychoanalysis must be disaggregated into distinct facets—practice, theory/teaching, and institutional associations—each of which operates under a different discourse (analytic, hysteric's, master's, or university), and that this plurality of discourses is structurally necessary rather than aberrant, because every praxis deploys different discourses depending on context.

    genuine scientific work does not exclude the cause... Truth, as the encounter with the real, is not elided, but met head on... In that sense, scientific discourse and the hysteric's discourse coincide.

41. #41

    The Lacanian Subject: Between Language and Jouissance · Bruce Fink · p.233

    <span id="page-231-0"></span>**Index**

    Theoretical move: This is the index of Bruce Fink's *The Lacanian Subject*, listing key concepts, proper names, and page references — a non-substantive navigational apparatus with no original theoretical argumentation.

    hysteric's, 129-30, 133-34

42. #42

    The Parallax View · Slavoj Žižek · p.303

    Copernicus, Darwin, Freud . . . and Many Others > The Historicity of the Four Discourses

    Theoretical move: The passage argues that the discourse of the Analyst and the discourse of perversion share the same upper-level formula (a–S/), such that the crucial difference lies in the radical ambiguity of objet petit a (as fantasmatic lure vs. the Void behind it); consequently, today's civilization functions as a perverse social link, and psychoanalysis—as the only discourse permitting non-enjoyment—points toward a different collective social bond beyond the Master's discourse.

    he posits her as the hystericized/divided subject who 'doesn't know what she wants'—the pervert knows it for her

43. #43

    The Parallax View · Slavoj Žižek · p.333

    The Academic Rumspringa, or, the Parallax of Power and Resistance

    Theoretical move: The passage argues that 'free choice' is always already a meta-choice whose conditions are ideologically pre-structured, and uses the Amish rumspringa as a model for how academic 'radical' distance from the state functions as a reproductive mechanism of hegemony rather than genuine resistance; against Critchley's ethics-first localism, Žižek proposes a parallax shift that reveals 'resistance' as feeding the power-machine, and authentic revolution as a 'Must' rather than an 'ought.'

    it endorses in advance the logic of hysterical provocation, bombarding the Power with 'impossible' demands, demands which are not meant to be met

44. #44

    The Parallax View · Slavoj Žižek · p.299

    Copernicus, Darwin, Freud . . . and Many Others > The Historicity of the Four Discourses

    Theoretical move: The passage argues that Lacan's four discourses map the historicity of European modernity—with the Master's discourse coding absolute monarchy, University/Hysteria coding biopolitics and capitalist subjectivity, and the Analyst's discourse coding emancipatory politics—while complicating Miller's claim that contemporary civilization itself operates as the Analyst's discourse, and then pivoting to show how global reflexivization paradoxically generates brute, "Id-Evil" immediacy resistant to interpretation.

    the explosion of the hysterical capitalist subjectivity that reproduces itself through permanent self-revolutionizing, through the integration of the excess into the 'normal' functioning of the social link