The Impossible Real of Being

        ——Mirror of Lacan’s Philosophy

                                  Zhang Yibing

Abstract£º
This book, which makes a systematic interpretation of Jacques Lacan, the master of the contemporary French psychoanalysis and philosophy, from the perspective of philosophical textology, is a first academic monograph in China. Based on Lacan’s famous Écrits , the writer has made a deep analysis of the complicated academic background of Lacan’s philosophy and taking an advantage of his diachronic association, which is particular and subversive, he has expounded the latent inherited relations of Lacan with such academic tendencies as super-realism, neo-hegelianism and linguistic structuralism respectively, especially his deep betrayal and enthusiastic promotion of Freud’s psychoanalysis. It is the writer’s description that sheds light on pseudo-individualism in Lacan’s philosophy on the vast logical horizon of contemporary western history of thoughts: In the process of mirror mapping the human essence of individuals is nothing but the imaginative operation constituted by the mirror of the other; in the symbolic logic the subject of traditional philosophy is recognized as the unconscious self-residence of the Other, which makes the subject a hollow jackstraw; therefore, the Real of the individual being is always nothing but a kind of realily impossibility. In a popular and vivid style this author talks about the magical logic of Lacan’s philosophy, which is beyond translation and introduction. As far as t the sense of the academic discussion, this book can be called a precursor of the domestic deep study of Lacan. Finally we must see that the reason that Lacan’s philosophy is important and eminent does not lie in his unilateral but deep thoughts and non-universality, but in the head-clearing drug, of which everyone who is unwilling to live on self-deception must be in need so as to carry out introspection.

Contents

Preface
Theatric Directory and Brief Introduction of Contents
1.Lacan’s story
2.The magical problematic
3.The antecedence similar to rape
4.Subversive context of history
5.A logic of spacing of time
Prelude 
Chapter One  Freud: Columbus in the depth of mind
1£®Freud discovering the New Continent
2£®The unconscious abyss behind consciousness
3£®Repression: true meaning of dream and oral error
4£®The ego of the rider: the internal triple structure of personality
5£®Libido£ºThe secret of desire
Act I  Lacan:  The mirror dance of pseudo-I
Chapter Two  Super-realism and neo-hegelianism
1£®Surrealism: The stunning beauty of another world
2£®Dali£ºA group of self’s desire in the critique of paranoia
3£®Hegel£ºThe desire relationship in the dialectics of master-slave
Chapter Three  From narcissism to love of abnormal image
1£®The authentic truth of Lacan’s mirror-image theory
2£®The birth of “I” in magical heaven
3£®The hetero-love in the image of the other
4£®From mirror to image: The alienation subject constructed in the mirrors of mass
Act II  Pseudo-subject: Point de Capiton of Symbolic Signifier Chain
Chapter Four  Saussure and Linguistic Structuralism
1£®Saussure:  Signifier and signified
2£®The historical logic of linguistic structuralism
3£®Levi-strauss’s symbolist structural anthropology
Chapter Five  Pseudo-subject: the symbolic language as corpse of being
1£®The logical starting-point of Lacan’s idea of language
2£®Concept: corpse of being
3£®Symbolic£ºEntropy of the Subject
4£®Naming: You are not living for yourself
5£®The essence of the pseudo-subject: I am interpellated to subject by language
Chapter Six  Signifier Chain: I am in the place where I am not thinking
1£®Signifier: The king in the symbolic order
2£®Metonymy and metaphor in signifier chain
3£®Signifier and subject in other place
Act III   The Other and the Dialectics of Desire
Chapter Seven  The Genetic Logic of the big Other
1£®Idea, the absolute Other of God and the Other of Demon
2£®The theory of the Other of existentialism
3£®The visage of the Other in Levinas
Chapter Eight  The Other of Demon: who makes you maniac?
1£®The subject’s maniac essence in ontology
2£®From intersubjectivity to the big Other
3£®Unconsciousness is the discourse of the big Other
4£®Intersubjective dialectics: The game between person and the small/big Other
Chapter Nine  Pseudo-“I want”: the desire of the Other’s desire
1£®The authentic needs and alienative requirements
2£®The desire seeking for nothing
3£®Desiring the desire of the Other
Epilogue
Chapter Ten  The Impossible Real of Being
1£®Bataille: A game without disguise, without light and shadow
2£®The Real: A knocking interrupting a fond dream
3£®Deletion of nostalgia: Traumatic real of impossibility
4£®The big Thing and objet petit a
5£®The Symptom presenting itself as“”
Bibliography
Index
Postscript