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dc.contributor.authorHourigan, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:07:07Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:07:07Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2010-12-21T06:52:00Z
dc.identifier.issn17518229
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/35391
dc.description.abstractThis discussion charts the oscillation of the human subject between the borders of mysticism and psychosis that are constitutive of the perverse social relation. In the work of Jacques Lacan and Slavoj ek, this perverse social relation codifies the symbolic universe of social reality through a law of the limit, of jouissance. To this end the discussion will show how Lacan's discussion of the Lady from the medieval traditions of courtly love opens up new critical paths towards understanding the subject constituted by the symbolic universe when it is sustained by perversion. By examining the triad of the Lady, the subject, and the figure of perverse paternal authority, the anal Freudian Father or jouisseur, it will be shown how the risk of psychosis is central to the increasingly mystical relation of the subject to their own jouissance which is plagued by its endless sacrifice and resuscitation by the jouisseur. Herein mysticism will be tested as the unique way that the subject circumvents psychosis while they are rendered as a subject by the symbolic universe of the jouisseur.
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dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherUniversity of Leeds
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.publisher.urihttp://www.zizekstudies.org/index.php/ijzs/article/view/241/368
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto20
dc.relation.ispartofissue4
dc.relation.ispartofjournalInternational Journal of Zizek Studies
dc.relation.ispartofvolume4
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychoanalytic Philosophy
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLiterary Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistory and Philosophy of Specific Fields
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode220318
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1608
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2005
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2202
dc.titleTechne and Mysticism: Courting Psychosis?
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
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gro.date.issued2010
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gro.griffith.authorHourigan, Daniel P.


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