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wish set number open-ended points anticipate discussions women desire well reading desire derrida's deconstructionist method. main focus lacan's attempts locate jouissance issue women's desire subjectivity. one key points he makes issue phallic jouissance designates women having supplementary jouissance. phallic function tied law (lacan calls name-father), accomodate function political overtones need make critical decision. are freud lacan descriptive rather proscriptive their assertions desire phallus?

phallus such contexts not biological penis rather signifier things power control, articulation symbolic, assertion subjectivity etc. now decide freud lacan prescriptive arguments desire phallus then faced highly problematic politically suspect (especially terms recent feminist analysis) set theories. they claiming desire phallus constant irrefutable natural order things theories designated untenable particularly light wide range feminist theories (irigaray's particular). however decide arguments descriptive freud lacan reveal subject located phallocentric order (world we live) workable model still informed dubious ideas.

supplementary jouissance beyond phallus operates outside laws symbolic. why lacan describes following manner: there jouissance proper her, her not exist signifies nothing. there jouissance proper her she herself may know nothing except she experiences -- much she know. reason not exist cannot expressed operates outside systems representation available phallocentric symbolic order. given phallic jouissance represented only terms negativity transgressive function idea feminine jouissance must even more unthinkable further beyond representation. but lacan points not mean not exist. contrary, extremely powerful force.

relapseville

sensitive to initial conditions
an aeroplane towing a banner that says
"no shit, sherlock" bumbles around
on another circuit,
stark comfort
clouding a syntax of touch
you're trying to unlearn
like your breasts brushing my arm
or a system failure,
your precious
negativities swirled
on the body's weird currents
& the back yard hidden
by a mist you might be imagining.
welcome to the time of updates,
your sullen t-shirt lending focus
to the bright machine.
this is the poetry of experience
broadcasting pharmacology 101
via four colour separation.
based on your knowledge of current events
do you consider this a good time to invest
in managed funds?
lights out for the structures of desire.
is suicide genetic?
misogynist cartoons placate the sponsor,
the culture visits relapseville.
television flicker on the boulevard,
face outlined in blue.
SBS advises the following program
is rated MA. you cough, & wait
for adult themes.

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difficulties supplementary jouissance lacan effort deal (variations) two issues recur regularity works. one way he tackles problem kind comparative analysis jouissance certain forms religious mysticism. his famous example bernini's statue ecstasy st teresa. he argues st teresa's expression reveals jouissance well religious experience. this keeping his idea jouissance must transgressive st teresa's mystical jouissance transgresses equivalent phallic experience.

lacan's other way speaking issue terms knowledge. amounts quite extraordinary set analytic moves (yet entirely keeping his own workings) lacan argues feminine jouissance located terms knowledge unknowable men. knowledge based other accessible only transgressions jouissance. this turn linked issue subject's relationship knowledge desire know. line thought seen writings jacques derrida.

patient capital

happy chemicals sketch
your submarine heart. she's apples,
the financial markets coo & flutter
& our old toyota
rolls through marrickville.
remember "the prelude"? mr william
wordsworth? well, thanks for
your gracious permission.
we exist only to annoy, mild antagonists
for you to fret on at your toilet,
though we were just leaving,
hoping the toyota's gonna start
(lives of the poets). one cigarette
from the front door
to the bus stop, two from
the front door to the bank,
the rain easing up, your face
exploring the documentary
& we're tired of reflecting
on the pedagogical implications,
the country needs more roads it's called
develop the nation's infrastructure
announced by mean-spirited little men.
your sloppy language
points to the shore where a reenactment
of the gallipoli landing
shocks the crowd into silence.
is that the last post or a bugler at the cricket?
teenagers rush about sobbing
& your tone subsides,
bankrupt, deep breathing,
a handful of sticky fingers.

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first glance little surprising conflate derrida foucault. however aim not unify pair consider points common ground between. said discussion not equal one focuses derrida draws foucault's ideas appropriate. central concern historicity desire analysis institutionalisation. these terms formulation desire both derrida's decontructions philosophy foucault's critiques systems thought take place. first need clarify meant historicity process institutionalism.

concepts devised derrida's particular form deconstruction foucault's reworking history discourse social orders mind. historicity positioning ideas diachronic (historical) synchronic perspectives order reveal something. not necessary understand particularities ideas themselves. rather agenda dislodge processes led formation ideas: show function ideas, become part discourses culture epoch. example foucault discusses prisons forms punishment discipline punish originality lies analysing function social processes produce concepts truth body. volumes history sexuality much formations power discursive practices they about sexuality. primary importance all foucault's ideas analysis however subject.

foucault's works map first called archaeologies subsequently genealogies ideas: how operate larger structure sense-making systems interests more specifics ideas themselves. derrida similar sorts equations stand. grammatology example test devoted understanding philosophy set processes (systems thinking analysing) rather specific issues. both cases process idea-formation historicised, only ultimately stripped historical nature analysed why operate some form truth.