Isn't Spader the guy from Crash and The Secretary? Would have been two movies that could have been used as references, but then again where is the line between masochism and Jouissance?
Regarding jouissance not free-floating or fully escaping from the symbolic, it is interesting how the signifiers emitted by those we say suffer from say Tourettes, a lack of impulse control or perhaps an automaton compulsion to enjoy blaspheming, swearing, profanity the sacred etc. Though the Tourettes compulsion or symptom is undersood as somehow falling beyond a certain law of the liberal subject of desire, the expletives nonetheless are always laden with value according to the law, ie. addressing the big Other, signifiers of race, gender, bodily parts and substances, acting as substances that embody this jouissance of the " baldy kunst, whitey ! four eyed, shitty !!) Other. Lalochezia is understood as a swearing that relieves stress. It is understood as connected to the release of serotonin etc that is to emotional regulation but thinking of lalochezia in relationship to the logic of the signifier and its excess production jouissance is much more useful to get to the logic or the structuring of what is happening with Tourettes and why the phenomenon is so prevalent, I'm thinking of the social bind, the loosening of the subject's relation to the big Other. We are still left with the problematic of how to become responsible for one's unconscious enjoyment. What is being 'not' addressed to the Other?? The obscene parasitical profanity of what is the underside of the sacred of PolitalCorrectness.
Your comments are so interesting. Makes me think of Tourettes as a cross over of the insistence of the signifier and the jouissance of the Other. I don't know much about the clinical syndrome but I was left wondering whose jouissance are we talking about? It always struck me that Tourettes sufferers don't seem to be getting much jouissance but nevertheless jouissance does seem to be integral to Tourettes. Any additional thoughts would be appreciated.
In Season 1, Ep. 1 of Game of Thrones we see an execution carried out by Ned Stark against a deserter. Ned makes it clear to his son who had witnessed the execution that he took no pleasure in doing so. If this is true, It seems one way to prevent the Mobius Strip from flipping into obscenity is for 'the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.'
Also, that ethic only works for those that are 'good' people, otherwise one can pass sentence against people they don't like for the sake of it and then execute them, it presupposes those in power are automatically the good.
I just saw Where the Crawdads Sing. It sounds similar to your Spader/Boston Legal reference.
Isn't Spader the guy from Crash and The Secretary? Would have been two movies that could have been used as references, but then again where is the line between masochism and Jouissance?
Regarding jouissance not free-floating or fully escaping from the symbolic, it is interesting how the signifiers emitted by those we say suffer from say Tourettes, a lack of impulse control or perhaps an automaton compulsion to enjoy blaspheming, swearing, profanity the sacred etc.
Though the Tourettes compulsion or symptom is undersood as somehow falling beyond a certain law of the liberal subject of desire, the expletives nonetheless are always laden with value according to the law, ie. addressing the big Other, signifiers of race, gender, bodily parts and substances, acting as substances that embody this jouissance of the " baldy kunst, whitey ! four eyed, shitty !!) Other.
Lalochezia is understood as a swearing that relieves stress. It is understood as connected to the release of serotonin etc that is to emotional regulation but thinking of lalochezia in relationship to the logic of the signifier and its excess production jouissance is much more useful to get to the logic or the structuring of what is happening with Tourettes and why the phenomenon is so prevalent, I'm thinking of the social bind, the loosening of the subject's relation to the big Other.
We are still left with the problematic of how to become responsible for one's unconscious enjoyment.
What is being 'not' addressed to the Other?? The obscene parasitical profanity of what is the underside of the sacred of PolitalCorrectness.
Your comments are so interesting. Makes me think of Tourettes as a cross over of the insistence of the signifier and the jouissance of the Other. I don't know much about the clinical syndrome but I was left wondering whose jouissance are we talking about? It always struck me that Tourettes sufferers don't seem to be getting much jouissance but nevertheless jouissance does seem to be integral to Tourettes. Any additional thoughts would be appreciated.
"James Spader as a reader of Aquinas."
In Season 1, Ep. 1 of Game of Thrones we see an execution carried out by Ned Stark against a deserter. Ned makes it clear to his son who had witnessed the execution that he took no pleasure in doing so. If this is true, It seems one way to prevent the Mobius Strip from flipping into obscenity is for 'the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword.'
You can perhaps wonder why he made a point of denying 'enjoyment'.
Also, that ethic only works for those that are 'good' people, otherwise one can pass sentence against people they don't like for the sake of it and then execute them, it presupposes those in power are automatically the good.
I don’t understand the Beatles and the stones reference. Although I’m loving these videos!
ah... answered in the next video
I have my own theory about fantasy and law.