Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor: New Essays on Jacques Lacan's The Ethics of Psychoanalysis

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INDEX 307 act analytic act, 227, 243 analytic act as “the pass,” 262–263, 265 Antigone’s act as political act, 227–228, 232 ethical act, 227, 228, 229 ethical act compared to perversion, 228 ethical act distinguished from action and activist, 228 political act as ideology critique, 229–230, 232 Adorno, Theodor, 95 agalma, 268 alienation and separation, 61, 64 ff. analyst desire of, 141 position of, 84–85, 141, 255 (See also subject-supposedto -know) Antigone Antigone, 116 as anamorphic image, 154, 157 beauty of, 5, 146–157 between two deaths, 115, 116, 123, 146, 151, 155, 157, 159, 160–164, 168–169 driven by jouissance, 135 Aristophanes, on the origins of love, 224 Aristotle, 3, 4, 8, 13, 14, 15, 19, 23, 30, 33, 34, 58, 91, 97, 110, 115, 123, 125, 126, 167, 172, 177, 178, 193–223, 227, 234–235, 236, 244, 254–255, 266 Lacan’s appreciation of (Aristotle), 194, 213 Aristotle on the ethical subject, 100 the good and desire, 195, 196–197 the orthos logos, 199, 200, 208 politics and eudaimonia, 200–201 the relation of language and law to desire, 208 substance (ousia), 212 thinking, 198 Aristotle, works of: Metaphysics, 199 Nicomachean Ethics, 13, 14, 195–202; Poetics, 8; Politics, 201 Atè (doom or destruction), 114, 118, 147 Augustine, 81 Badiou, Alain, 35 Badiou, Alain on beauty, 151 discontinuous multiple, 133 an ethic of truth, 94 evil, 138 fidelity to truth, 227 happiness as nihilistic, 124 Heideggerian concept of truth, 80 Lacan and normal subjective structure, 92, 95 Lacanian anti-philosophy, 35, 78, 245, 252, 262 passion for the real, 191–192 308 Index Badiou, Alain on (continued) philosophy and truth, 244–245 philosophy and univocity of being, 244, 246 Plato, 35–36 truth as correspondence, 79 Badiou, Alain, works by: The Century, 191–193; essays by: “Formules de ‘l’Étourdit,” 239–279 Bataille, Georges, 1–2, 50, 135, 153, 176 Bentham, Jeremy, 15, 205 Brentano, Franz, 194 capitalism, and democracy, 230, 232 and hedonistic consumerism, 233 castration, 21–22, 24, 53, 54, 63, 69, 70, 72, 75, 88, 91, 101, 102, 115, 128, 131, 133, 134, 166, 180, 213, 216, 222, 224, 233, 235, 274, 276 (See also signifying cut) catharsis, 8, 112 ethical dimensions of, 177–180 Goethe on, 178 Kant on, 178 Claudel, Paul, 29, 41 l’Otage, 146, 196, 234 creation ex nihilo, 113 cure (psychoanalytic), 30–31 Dante, Inferno, 161 death, double death, between two deaths, 123, 151, 157, 160–163, 173, 193, 281 n. 2 death drive, 7, 25, 36–38, 44, 45–46, 48, 105, 109, 110, 122, 185 Antigone as image of, 7, 147, 152, 163, 167–168 death drive of capitalism, 226 and the master signifier, 221 Descartes, 58, 81, 98, 100, 102, 139, 252 Cartesian ‘vel’, 58, 61, 64, 101 demand, 45 desire as dead desire, 93 as desire of (the Other) desire, 43, 66, 75, 107–108, 125 identification of desire and signifier, 108 irreducible to demand, 107–108 metonymic structure of, 108 retroactive dimensions of, 128 unconscious desire, 127 Deleuze, Gilles, 235 Derrida, Jacques, 88 dit-mension(s), 211–212, 216, 217, 218, 219, 237 ego, 44, 52, 61, 65, 82, 87, 91, 102, 105, 106, 126, 137, 189, 190, 241, 253, 255, 278, 281 n. 1, 288 n. 19 ego analysis, 32, 105 Eliade, Mircea, The Sacred and the Profane, 241 énoncé, 26, 63, 122 énonciation, 26, 122 ethics, 29, 33 as “care of the soul,” 4, 16, 19, 29, 193, 241, 280 of expenditure, 116, 32–33, 42, 56, 78, 80 of finitude, 25, 41, 49 of happiness as political, 138 of jouissance, 202, 257 as preparation for science, 124 of psychoanalysis, 32, 145, 172, 242–243 ethics of the pass, 265 the tragedy of psychoanalysis, 158 of radical evil, 158 of the real, 25, 75, 77, 169, 171 of resistance, 10 of truth, 95 of the well-said, 91 unconscious as ethical, 124 ethical-aesthetics (ésthethique), 145, 158 309 Index ethical responsibility in the analytic situation, 142, 144 ex-istence, 24, 26, 37, 41, 90, 101, 102, 103, 105, 214 extraterritoriality (principle of), 32 fantasy (fundamental), 128 in the analytic act, 31, 67, 209 and desire, 129, 134, 148, 236, 256, 257, 274, 276 object(s) of, viii, 137, 174, 175, 181, 183, 214 lost object restored through, 210 material status symbols as, 226 philosophy’s fantasy, 268–269, 272, 273 political–ideological, 230...