THE PERVERSE SUBJECT OF POLITICS:LACAN AS A READER OF MOHAMMAD BOUYERI

A point that stood out to me in the chapter is how when a person acts out an evil act they make themselves become object also- pointing out how horrible they are feeling “feel sorry for me”. This is evident in Tues 22nd espisode of Hollyoaks http://www.channel4.com/programmes/hollyoaks/4od 

‘What horrible things I had to watch in the pursuance of my duties, how heavily the task weighed upon my shoulders’ (p.106) The other point that was made, which stood out, was that one can not be blamed/ feel guilt for their actions if they are following the Big Other. The morals they furfil within their act are respectful to the Big Other. Reasons for so many terroist acttacks? The 911 attacks for example….all the people that crashed the planes and killed so many lives would have no guilt and would have done it to follow their leader-the big other- to prove they believe-that they tell of the truth and for that reason they will sacrafice their life and die. ‘Truth from lie is death, the truthful subject’s readiness and wish to die’ (p.110) ‘Perversion, at its most fundamental, resides in the formal structure of how the pervert relates to the truth and speech. The pervert claims direct access to some figure of the big Other (from God or history to the desire of his partner), so that, dispelling all the ambiguity of language, he is able to act directly as the instrument of the big Others will’ (p.116)

‘Appearance similarily overlaps with truth in one’s ideological self-perception’ Throughout reading this book I have been questioning that by adopting anothers act can you actually become this. I think what Lacan suggests is that by believeing in the Big Other- whatever that may be, one can become anything. As long as I believe I am a muslim I am one.

‘in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on’ (p.20)

Silence and stillness is the withdrawal from the Big Other- the symbolic order and the social constructions. If we really want to know ourselves we should best explore in stillness and silence?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_6mBWljSU0