No. 9 (2018): Subjectivations. Signs, Wastes, Symptoms
Edited by Lorenzo Curti and Irene Ferialdi
In the cultural climate of the early 20th century, Jacques Lacan inaugurates a lifelong re-examination of the notion of subject, in the name of a return to Freud. Among the many ideas that shaped his theoretical revision, his knowledge of Ferdinand De Saussure’s work was fundamental since, as is well known, it allowed him to include the issue of subjectivation under the paradigm of structuralist linguistics. This results in a crucial theoretical breakthrough that also represents the first dialectical formulation of subjectivity...