evoking reality

from Joel Dor seen in brentisaacbarnett (page135 The Unconscious Structured Like a Language):

"The basic property of linguistic utterance is to evoke reality by means of a symbolic substitute that inevitably causes a split between experienced reality and that which comes to signify it.


In Lacan's theory the transition from the stage of castration to the Oedipal stage occurs after the child becomes aware that he or she is not the location (embodiment of) power, which means the are not the primary object of desire. Not being power=castration. The second phase ensues when the child becomes aware that the Father has power. A change from being to having and using occurs. The Father's ability to limit access to the power that he has is called law. Experience of the power that can be used occurs under the Name-of-the-Father.

& From Joel Dor page 136:

"Since this is so, the relation of the subject to his own discourse is based on the same effect of division. This means that the subject figures in his own discourse only at the price of this division; he disappears as subject and finds himself in what he says, represented only in the form of a symbol."

J.A. Miller (1966 La suture.) uses the term the suture to describe this. The Suture is that which names the relation of the subject to the chain of his discourse; the subject figures [in his discourse] as the missing element under the aspect of a stand-in.

The point at which the subject forms, symbolic representation occurs and the subject fades (loses authenticity) being replaced endlessly by symbolic terms is the point at which Badiou would employ the term "name of the empty set". It is the name of nothingness. The name has being the empty set does not. The name of the empty set is written by Badiou as {0}. This he also call the "suture" to being.

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