Lacanianism rejects both total-enjoyment protest and resigned empiricist realism.
Evidence
The great benefit of Lacanianism is to reject both the party of the Infant (“you want new masters, and you shall have your wish” as Lacan told the student protestors of the Sixties) and the party of the Father (the empircomongers who try to sell the Symbolic as the only Real). There must indeed be a demand for the Impossible, but an Impossible which does not correspond with the definition provided by either party. It is not a question of total enjoyment, but of the not-all, a sober psychosis, lessness… — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1423
Categorization
- DEFINE: Explains the ‘not-all’ concept as a third demand for the Impossible beyond the parties of the Infant and Father.
- QUESTION: Fisher leaves ‘a sober psychosis, lessness’ undeveloped here — a concept worth tracing through K-Punk’s metaphysical claims.
- XREF: connects to: Adorno rejected both positivism and abstract individualism while insisting on nonidentity. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 268; Adorno refuses to reduce existing reality to mere positivity — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1487; Materialism opposes religion while realism opposes speculation and transcendence (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Adorno refuses to reduce existing reality to mere positivity
#expands(0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1487 - Materialism opposes religion while realism opposes speculation and transcendence
#qualifies(0.75) - Commodified modernism collapses the distinction between real and imaginary negation.
#expands(0.72) - Adorno rejected both positivism and abstract individualism while insisting on nonidentity.
#expands(0.70) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 268