The discourse on love and the Imaginary dimension: a theory on language and writing in works by Jacques Lacan and Roland Barthes
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the Imaginary, 'there is no such thing as a sexual relationship', love, 'it never ceases to write itself', castration, 'it ceases to not write itself'Abstract
In 1975, the theoretical conceptualization of Jacques Lacan and Roland Barthes, around the dimension of the imaginary, conditions their way of understanding love, as a suture of the void that provokes the dimension of the real or, on the contrary, as an operative force that dismantles the symbolic order of language, through the violence of jouissance. Thus, in these moments, the concern for love and the dimension of the imaginary motivates, in Jacques Lacan and Roland Barthes, the construction of two divergent theories, about the order of language and the writing process: in the case of Lacan, it is a writing, as praxis, that works to contain the violence of the jouissance of the real, through the symbolic; in the case of Barthes, it is a text of bliss, where the imaginary is placed at the service of the real, in order to tear apart the symbolic dimension of the language. In short, in the Seminar XX: Encore and in A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, the theory on the dimension of the imaginary, translates into different ways of approaching the concrete exercise of writing, since love can work to preserve the homeostasis of the symbolic dimension of language or, rather, to disarticulate the order of discourse.
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