| Title: | On the absolute impossibility of the world’s existence : Lacan against the cosmologists |
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| Authors: | ID Végső, Roland (Author) |
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| Files: |  URL - Source URL, visit https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/filozofski-vestnik/article/view/15062/12839
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  ZRC SAZU - The Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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| Abstract: | This essay argues that the contemporary relevance of psychoanalysis and Joan Copjec’s Read My Desire can be derived from Sigmund Freud’s consistent rejection of the program of the “re-enchantment of the world.” Facing the onslaught of technological modernity, many of Freud’s contemporaries lamented the disenchantment of the world. Today, this tradition persists as a renewed desire for a shared or common world; we collectively mourn the loss of the world. But, in this context, Copjec’s work raises a disturbing question: Can a sexed being have a world? In order to draw out some of the consequences of this question, I examine the role Immanuel Kant’s philosophy plays in Read My Desire in two steps: First, I address the theoretical argument against the existence of the world and, second, I examine some of the practical consequences of this insight. By providing a parallel reading of Kant’s reflections on the antinomies of cosmological ideas and Jacques Lacan’s formulae of sexuation, Copjec effectively establishes the fact that “the world” and “sex” are mutually exclusive categories. |
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| Keywords: | Joan Copjec, Immanuel Kant, Charlie Chaplin, Chris Marker, Sigmund Freud, sex, world, ethics of psychoanalysis |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 08.01.2026 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2025 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 93-113 |
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| Numbering: | letn. 46, št. 2 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-27437  |
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| UDC: | 159.964.26:17 |
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| ISSN on article: | 0353-4510 |
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| DOI: | 10.3986/fv.46.2.04 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 266613251 |
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| Copyright: | Imetniki avtorskih pravic na prispevkih so avtorji |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 07.02.2026 |
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| Views: | 108 |
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