Truth between Semblance and the Real

Authors

  • Jelica Šumič Riha Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of philosophy, Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/fv.41.1.12.

Keywords:

semblant, truth, the real, discourse, jouissance, psychoanalysis, Lacan

Abstract

What is the peculiar evocative force of the notion of the real? Rather than succumbing to the temptation of forcing appearance in order to accede to the real supposed to be lurking behind it, for Lacanian psychoanalysis the access to the real is that of the semblance. While one of our aims in this paper is to briefly outline the development of Lacan’s rather peculiar “realism”, we would also wish to emphasize the relation between the real and the semblance as being the crux of Lacan’s later teaching. Indeed, for psychoanalysis, the question of the real is  inseparable from the interrogation of the semblance, a term forged by Lacan in the last period of his teaching in order to rework the relation between the truth and the real. This is why although the semblance is relevant to numerous contemporary discourses, it is only in psychoanalysis that this problem is raised to the level of one of the central theoretical and practical issues. Omnipresent, unsettling, yet unresolved, this problem comes to the fore at the critical moments in the history of psychoanalysis, thereby marking turning points at which the orientation of psychoanalysis is at stake.

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Published

2020-12-31

How to Cite

Šumič Riha, J. (2020). Truth between Semblance and the Real. Filozofski Vestnik, 41(1). https://doi.org/10.3986/fv.41.1.12.

Issue

Vol. 41 No. 1 (2020): Reading Althusser; Philosophy and Its Artistic Other; Politics and Mathematics; The Real and Semblance in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

Section

The Real and Semblance in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis

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