By Alain Badiou
In this discussion, Alain Badiou stocks the clearest, so much certain account up to now of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains extensive the instruments Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his different philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Élisabeth Roudinesco supplementations Badiou's event along with her personal viewpoint at the panorama of the French analytic global given that Lacan's dying -- critiquing, for instance, the hyperlink (or lack thereof) among politics and psychoanalysis in Lacan's paintings. Their alternate reinvigorates how the the paintings of a pivotal twentieth-century philosopher is perceived.
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Moreover—and in this sense French phenom enology is also an inheritor of traditional psychology—the subject is apprehended as an interiority, seen from the point of view of its feelings, its emotions, and so on. The result is a heavy focus on the reflexive ego or self and the sphere of intimacy or inwardness. In order to free up a thought of revolutionary emancipa tion supported by science (our “common program” at the time), we had to extract ourselves from this phenomeno logical model of the subject that was at once reflexive and existential.
Yes, but I insist that we should never forget the dimen sion of the tragic. When you read him, or when you watch the rare videos of him we do have, you can see a profound suffering. Lacan suffered from the difficulties he had in transmitting his thought.
From this perspective, Lacan is truly a master. His speech and his singular writings have a sort of resonance, 32 | t h i n k i n g d i so r d e r an extraordinarily ample echo, which carries well beyond the borders of psychoanalysis and the analytic act as such. Lacan is also a master in the sense that his work was im mediately and violently debated. If he was attacked in this way, it is because the novelty he proposed appeared in such a brilliant and commanding fashion. It is also because he created schools and surrounded himself with disciples.