Truth as Cause
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Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English · Jacques Lacan · p.757
On Freud's "Trieb" and the Psychoanalyst's Desire > Science and Truth
Theoretical move: Lacan argues that the absence of metalanguage—grounded in the self-referential speech of truth—is co-extensive with Urverdrängung, and uses this to differentiate how magic, religion, and science each relate "truth as cause," showing that only psychoanalysis, via the subject of science, can rigorously articulate this relation without disavowal or deferral.
Magic involves the truth as cause in its guise as efficient cause... In religion, the putting into play of truth as cause by the subject... revelation negates what grounds the subject in considering himself to be a party to the cause