Bending the structure: Jacques Lacan along the axis of structuralism and poststructuralism

Lacan wrote and generated ideas at the intersection of structuralism and poststructuralism, and the question of where he stands in this intersection is crucial to understand his conception of the subject. This essay takes the multiplicity of views on Lacan as a structuralist and a poststructuralist...

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Published inFelsefe arkivi Vol. 2022; no. 56; pp. 99 - 112
Main Authors Günday,Merve, Kaçar,Erman
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
German
Published İstanbul Üniversitesi Yayınları 01.07.2022
Istanbul University Press
Subjects
derrida
Felsefe & Psikoloji & Sosyoloji
jacques lacan
poststructuralism
saussure
structuralism
İstanbul
Türkiye
Jacques Lacan
yapısalcılık
Derrida
postyapısalcılık
structuralism
poststructuralism
Saussure
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Summary:Lacan wrote and generated ideas at the intersection of structuralism and poststructuralism, and the question of where he stands in this intersection is crucial to understand his conception of the subject. This essay takes the multiplicity of views on Lacan as a structuralist and a poststructuralist as its starting point and aims to weigh these labels against the background of his specific theories and views. We suggest that in his early phase when he was categorised as a structuralist, he had the seeds of his later poststructuralist phase, and when he was generating his poststructuralist ideas, he was building them on his structuralist legacy. This evolution is similar to that of Roland Barthes in that he establishes an ongoing dialog between structuralism and poststructuralism: he is both a threshold figure suggesting an amalgam of these movements, but he is also a dividing figure as his evolution points at the unbridgeable rupture between structuralism and poststructuralism.
ISSN:0378-2816
2667-7644
DOI:10.26650/arcp.1095500