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Now, when the infant subject enters the 'symbolic' or 'linguistic' stage, it assimilates the linguistic differences which are discussed above; the infant subject is constituted by the 'symbolic' and it learns to accept its predetermined "position" in linguistic oppositions such as 'male/female', 'father/son', 'mother/daughter'. This symbolic realm of language is also the realm of the law of the father. Here, the "phallus" (symbolically used for male privilege and authority) is the "privileged signifier" that establishes the mode or the chain of all the other signifiers. It can also be defined as the nodal points in a 'symbolic order' with the "master signifier"– where the 'master signifier' is the "signifier of [...] signification as such", as Haz describes it.<ref>https://youtu.be/w6g_dyS7Aw4?si=x5CJe6POG1LRMJLv&t=306</ref> | Now, when the infant subject enters the 'symbolic' or 'linguistic' stage, it assimilates the linguistic differences which are discussed above; the infant subject is constituted by the 'symbolic' and it learns to accept its predetermined "position" in linguistic oppositions such as 'male/female', 'father/son', 'mother/daughter'. This symbolic realm of language is also the realm of the law of the father. Here, the "phallus" (symbolically used for male privilege and authority) is the "privileged signifier" that establishes the mode or the chain of all the other signifiers. It can also be defined as the nodal points in a 'symbolic order' with the "master signifier"– where the 'master signifier' is the "signifier of [...] signification as such", as Haz describes it.<ref>https://youtu.be/w6g_dyS7Aw4?si=x5CJe6POG1LRMJLv&t=306</ref> | ||
'Jouissance' and 'foreclosure' are important in Lacanian psychoanalysis and are even related to each other as they complement each other as if they are in the same network. 'Jouissance' refers to ecstasy which gets lost upon entering the 'symbolic order' and the continuous search for | 'Jouissance' and 'foreclosure' are important in Lacanian psychoanalysis and are even related to each other as they complement each other as if they are in the same network. 'Jouissance' refers to ecstasy which gets lost upon entering the 'symbolic order' and the continuous search for this plentitude of ecstacy due to its lack. In the case of Freud, it was an individual deriving 'death drive', which has been revised by Lacan. Feminist psychoanalytic interpretation of 'jouissance' is premised on feminine libidinal drive being repressed by the 'symbolic order'. The French postmodern thinker [[Gilles Deleuze]] owing to his 'schizoanalysis' developed 'jouissance of partial drives', the idea that there is a 'multiplicity of different and partial objects of enjoyment'. It is the de-patriarchal and de-oedipal reality where there is no single father.<ref>https://youtu.be/w6g_dyS7Aw4?si=1mgBo6M0pg0m0NbN&t=50</ref> In Ancient drama (Greek drama) and Renaissance drama there is one father and the plot is defined by this patriarchal figure, a great example of this is William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'. | ||
'Foreclosure' on the other hand is technically a defense mechanism in classical psychoanalytic terms. It is the expulsion and shunning of the fundamental signifier i.e. the 'castrative' presence of father, who is the source of 'symbolic castration'. It is initiated by the subject through identifying some 'form' in the place of 'the name-of-the-father' which is closely related to the 'master signifier', the 'superego' and the 'phallus'. The 'identifying' of a different 'imaginary form' and 'replacement' of the 'master signifier' is quintessentially 'psychosis' and 'schizophrenic'. | 'Foreclosure' on the other hand is technically a defense mechanism in classical psychoanalytic terms. It is the expulsion and shunning of the fundamental signifier i.e. the 'castrative' presence of father, who is the source of 'symbolic castration'. It is initiated by the subject through identifying some 'form' in the place of 'the name-of-the-father' which is closely related to the 'master signifier', the 'superego' and the 'phallus'. The 'identifying' of a different 'imaginary form' and 'replacement' of the 'master signifier' is quintessentially 'psychosis' and 'schizophrenic'. |