Goatboy’s Reviews > Antigone, in Her Unbearable Splendor: New Essays on Jacques Lacan's The Ethics of Psychoanalysis > Status Update

Chapter 6 felt a bit like a slog...

The change is that, in not giving way on desire, in taking desire literally, “to the letter,” one recognizes that “desire is nothing more than the metonymy of the discourse of demand,” the unconscious articulation of a signifying series, and for this reason constituted as fundamental alienation”

Freeland really does do a great job of tying together many of Lacan's seminars, most especially VII, XI, XVII. and XX. By doing so you not only get a deeper understanding of Lacan's theories but also how they progressed across the years. By taking ethics as a theme and continuity line Freeman is able to really provide a broad (yet in depth) summary of Lacan.

Whew! That third chapter on Truth was challenging. Banks of fog and then sunlight continually floating by. Have to say though that by the end of the chapter I was LOCKED IN and really feeling like I was absorbing the meal Freeland was serving up. Clarified many things that still felt unsure from my reading of S:VII.