For thousands of years, the discussion about "subject" has been scattered among the discourses of countless philosophers and psychologists. The spirit of "humanism" advocated by the Renaissance was the beginning of the gradual establishment of human subjectivity. God was invited off the altar, which was the first step to "murder" God. Later, Nietzsche directly shouted "God is dead" and the divinity was destroyed, seeming to have completed the liberation of the subject.
The people said: "God is dead, so everything is allowed?"
However, Lacan said: "God is dead, nothing is allowed." The
liberated person is as weak and helpless as a baby, when he is told that he can freely control his soul. At that time, I was at a loss. Therefore, when human beings abandon the guidance of divinity and embrace capitalism enthusiastically, they will inevitably be bewitched by desires and become slaves of material and money. It is against this historical background that Marx said that man is the sum of all social relations. Marx noticed the materialization of mankind in the capitalist stage, and people became faithful believers of commodity fetishism.
In the field of philosophy, most discussions on the alienation of the subject are based on the existence of the subject. But Lacan declared: The subject, including the subject's desire, does not exist!
Man is not alienated, but nothingness. "I" has been living in the eyes and expectation of others from the beginning. The self confirmed by the mirror by the baby is actually a pseudo-self. Therefore, "I" is a "nothing".
Subsequently, the linguistic symbol, the capital other, further hollowed out the subject. Lacan said, I am not this physical body, but a symbol woven by the language system. Therefore, Lacan declares horribly: Where the symbol replaces death, it is the initial swelling of life. It is conceivable that for this "empty" subject, desire can only be the desire of the other. In fact, I don't want to (can't) ask for anything, that is "pseudo me wanting".
I was wondering, should one use the umbilical cord to strangle himself to death during the fetal period, in order to complete the "non-emptiness" of the subject? So, how is human being in this world possible? Of course, as stated in "The Reality of Impossible Existence": Lacan’s philosophy is important in contemporary times, not only because of its one-sided and profound ideological and non-universal nature. Those who live by self-deception must be a sobriety of introspection.
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