The Myth of Lamella

Authors

  • Marko Levačić

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610502302_03

Keywords:

Lacan, myth, lamella, drive, enjoyment, object a, signifier

Abstract

In Seminar XI Lacan uses construction of a myth to try to explain the concept of drive. Instead, he creates more of an allegory than a myth, allegory of the lamella, an unusual, formless, phantom, “unreal” organ as he names it. This organ behaves like a drive in its blind forcing and extracting of enjoyment. With a bit of imagination lamella can be put into a mythical frame, into a narration of origin and genesis. Maybe something that belongs to the order of the real can be best explained via myth, i. e. by construction of its never present origin and development.

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Published

2026-04-30

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