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Document Details : Title: The Lack? What Lack? Subtitle: The 'Negativity' Issue from a Spinozist Psychoanalysis Viewpoint Author(s): LORDON, Frédéric , LUCBERT, Sandra Journal: Tijdschrift voor Filosofie Volume: 87 Issue: 2 Date: 2025 Pages: 335-346 DOI: 10.2143/TVF.87.2.3295275 Abstract : Should we say as Deleuze and Guattari that desire does not lack anything ? Or, as Lacan, that lack is the very cause of desire ? The theoretical proposition of Spinozist psychoanalysis holds together the ontological flawless positivity of desire and the dramatic effects of the first aerial life affection: the birth. The birth is a violent transition between the homeostatic intra utero condition and a new condition where the new born mode is thrown into an abysmal distress he can’t survive if parental rescue does not imediately kick in. Throughout this threshold, a felicity has been lost. And the mode’s birth is dominated by the affect of desiderium. It surely is an inadequate idea. We nonetheless show that, even if an imaginary formation, the lack, stemming from the original loss, gets a decisive, shaping, structural effect onto the whole psychogenesis of the human mode. Lack has no ontological positivity, yet it is ontically core to the human existence. |
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