This paper studies how subjectivity in capitalist culture can be characterized. Building on Lacan's later seminars XVI, XVII, XVIII, and XIX, the author first outlines Lacan's general discourse theory, which includes four characteristic discourses: the discourse of the master, the discourse of the university, the discourse of the hysteric and the discourse of the analyst. Next, the author explo...

It seems intuitive to conflate the gamic gaze with player’s act of looking. To do so, however, would be inherit from first wave psychoanalytic screen theory a misleading presupposition that is synonymous look. Taking influence new Lacanian film theorists such as Joan Copjec and Todd McGowan, this article contends an object in visual field play disrupts mastery I develop argument through analysi...

The first edition of the Histoire comique de Francion by Charles Sorel (1623) contains numerous references to eating and drinking. My study examines narrative sequences focused on a fluctuation between deprivation abundance, frustration jouissance. In addition domain food, I consider allusions sexuality knowledge, insofar as they share same paradigm, shed light each other. This analysis also sh...

Exploring the development of algorithms in Lacanian theory, specifically "R schema" 1950s, I argue that psychoanalysis, read through contemporary debates about "algorithmic cult" Netflix and other avatars popular culture, can be said to reveal inhuman, machinic essence subjectivity. The etiology algorithms, mathemes, formulae diagrams Lacan’s oeuvre has been under-studied, part because for some...

Not all homo sapiens are human subjects. This paper explores the lived experience of but not that I call “lived flesh.” A experience/distinction shouldn’t be possible on Merleau-Ponty’s account subjectivity in Phenomenology Perception and “The Intertwining – The Chiasm.” use flesh is deliberate emerges from my engagement with Chiasm” through Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Hortense Spillers’ “Intersti...

Kristeva’s description of motherhood as a "demented jouissance," the pleasure pain, reveals ambivalence love and hate relationship child attempts for individuality by detaching from her mother woman within herself. It is an excruciating experience both daughter since female identity not delimited, autonomous, separated, or individuated. Morrison’s Beloved saturated with conversations that signa...