Lacanian Ink 26 Anxiety

by Jacques-Alain Miller, Slavoj Žižek

"There is no final solution on the horizon today, Capital is here to stay, all we can hope for is a temporary truce. That is to say, undoubtedly worse that this deadlock would have been a pseudo Deleuzian celebration of the successful revolt of the multitude. The hard kernel of today's global capitalist universe, its true Master Signifier is Democracy. And the latest statements of Negri and Hardt are a kind of unexpected confirmation of Alain Badiou's insight." - Slavoj Zizek, The De-Sublimated Object of Post-Ideology "One should bear in mind Lacan's lesson here: accepting guilt is a manoeuvre which delivers us of anxiety, and its presence signals that the subject compromised his desire. So when, in a move described by Kierkegaard, one withdraws from the dizziness of freedom by seeking a firm support in the order of finitude, this withdrawal itself is the true Fall." - Slavoj Zizek, Anxiety: Kierkegaard with Lacan. "When one determines that the phallus is signifier, and Lacan shows that this is Freud's truth, castration has as its foundation the apprehension in the real of the absence of the woman's penis. What follows then is what he calls, following the analytic doxa, a feeling of female inferiority in the imaginary plan." - Jacques-Alain Miller, Reading Jacques Lacan's Seminar on Anxiety.

About the author

Jacques-Alain Miller is a French Lacanian psychoanalyst.