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Kovacevic, Filip. "A Contribution Toward Lacanian Political Theory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2002 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66559_index.html>

Kovacevic, F. , 2002-08-28 "A Contribution Toward Lacanian Political Theory" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Sheraton Boston & Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p66559_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: In this paper, I draw out the elements of a social and political theory from the work of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and establish their relation to radical political thought. My principal claim is that such a relation is not as negative as certain commentators in France and United States have claimed. Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut on one hand and Martin Jay, on the other, reproach Lacan for not supporting the idea of the autonomous ego, which they see as the condition of critical theory and philosophical humanism. However, as I will show, Lacan agrees with radical Freudians, such as Wilhelm Reich and Herbert Marcuse, that the belief in the ego is closely connected with the belief in the primacy of the Reality Principle, which, translated into non-psychoanalytic terminology, amounts to social conformism and political quietism. As I see it, no radical thinker can support humanism, if these are its end results. In order to substantiate my claim that Lacan is in fact a radical thinker whose work is grounded in the leftist Freudian orientation, I have chosen to investigate two aspects of his work. The first aspect that I will examine is Lacan's discourse theory, which is essentially a product of his attempt to formalize, classify, and explain all relations that "establish a social link." In this respect, I will show that, structurally speaking, the discourse of the analyst possesses precisely the potential needed to transform the dominant sociopolitical discourse - the discourse of the university - into the discourse I see as that of a liberated political subject, the discourse of the hysteric.

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