According to Lacan, capitalist discourse is a form of discourse that has no lack and that promises completeness. In this text, a reading of increasing indulgence among people through the capitalist discourse and its relation with ethics of psychoanalysis is conducted. In the four discourses introduced by Lacan (master’s discourse, university’s discourse, hysteric’s discourse and analyst’s discourse), the object of desire (object petit a) is never attainable, whereas in the capitalist discourse which Lacan starts to mention it in his later work as a fifth discourse, object of desire is pronounced to be attainable. The dominance of such a discourse brings with it to change the common structure in society. With the dominance of this discourse, the law (Name-of-the-Father) that determines the psychic structure of individuals loses the old talent and makes different substitutions. According to Lacan, the law stipulates the pleasure principle of ensuring that the subject is subject to the symbolic system through the Name-of-the-Father. This law flaunts a "lack" left in the subject. There is no such lack in the capitalist discourse. The fact that such a discourse is the dominant culture of the period weakens the law and other elements that hold the function of law (religion, ideology, etc.), and the law is replaced by an imposition of the superiority of enjoyment. Enjoyment takes place in Lacanian theory by the name of jouissance and points to an agonizing pleasure. Individuals are structured as psychotic, pervert or neurotic through the lack brought by the law. The neurotic structure is accepted as the norm in Lacanian theory and includes every individual subject to the symbolic system. However, it is argued that with the weakening of the law, the normative structure shifts from neurotic to pervert. In the rest of the text, the position of this pursuit of jouissance in the ethics of psychoanalysis, which Lacan explained in the seminar he gave in 1959-1960, was discussed. In accordance with the ethics of psychoanalysis, one should follow one's desire, not enjoyment. Enjoyment will only keep the subject at the points of the death drive, it will drive him away from his desire. In this context, the psychoanalyst's obligation to do the ethical is to accompany the analysand to follow his desire in this period when the commonplace converges to perversion.
Primary Language | Turkish |
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Journal Section | Research Articles |
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Publication Date | June 28, 2021 |
Submission Date | April 15, 2021 |
Published in Issue | Year 2021 Volume: 1 Issue: 1 |