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On morphemes and phonemes very well seen on the site "Russian Journal" is an interesting commentary by Alexander Markov on Lacan as a theorist of the sacred. I quote it in full, to show the importance of the subject after "images of the alphabet" for contemporary art.

Scripture Lacan: no translation, no distortion
Alexander Markov
1.
In the just-published new book, Victor Mazin walks you through a series of important episodes of two books "seminar" of Jacques Lacan. "Lacan sees Freud's text dream - the text of Scripture" [1] and explains the quote: "Corruption, even oblivion text dreams mean so little that remains with us even though only one element, albeit uncertain, only the tip of the dreams, the shadow of his shadow, we can still give it meaning. For to us a message ". [2] Quote from Lacan is in excellent translation by A. Chernoglazova. Only one he introduces confusion: How do the images of the "tip" or "ghost shadows"? Should think that the shadow shade, being purely ephemeral suddenly thickens when we look at it, it suddenly becomes a relief, as up to this simple hint or a memory? Or just a dream is out of the shadows that come together in a relationship, and just pull the one shadow to the theater of shadows moved in our direction?

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The key here is the remark of the Holy Scriptures, which may be subject to distortions, but even a small part of it as a shrine can contextualize any and all missing fragments. This view of Scripture as a machine constant production of distinctions that will be played in order, even if the moments of "here and now" is constantly changing, can not be called trivial. We are used to the opposite view of Scripture: change even one letter leads to irreversible consequences. Scripture in such a case is a field in which the device is going to the world: it is enough to move any of the options in this field, as the present assembly will fail.
If we compare the representation of Scripture, which is the basis of the arguments Freud or Lacan, with our usual experience, that this view corresponds with its concept of copyright works, or rather on the work in which the author appears father figure. Father, signing his works, knows exactly what it means: in fact, the only motivation is to create works of expression of the knowledge that the Father, and so it is, and can be submitted upon request.
Such a father can not be compared with the plein air artist, but an artist salon, if we recall the known method to represent the artist as a connoisseur-turvy, making their pictures as some collection. All these images shops and salons, perspektivistskie canvas view the picture gallery, which is about to take place on art connoisseur, will be held as a shadow 'dreams of greatness shown in numerous painted a picture - this is the best indication of the expert-turvy, failed in sleep skill, and real and realizable dream znatochestva artist.
Exactly this name the Father znatochestve artist that immediately goes into creativity, writes Larry below: "phenomenon is called the Father is not so much a traumatic event as the decision by moving out of the deadlock of silence in other places. Castration - translation, go to that other place where begins around bottomless silence discharged my history ". [3] It turns out that if the recipient can only experience the feeling of castration, to get rid of the obsessive experience of another, the name of the Father is not just interpret the situation, but it turns out "solution" creative phenomenon. The translations, Name of Father breaks all desires, and thus creates this machine to represent the images, so that no desire engages with distortion, error, or a space, breaking a single garment of understanding.
Understanding this system is not the practice of identifying and moving to "another place", a place out of the picture of the world, of which only the picture of created zhnergiey desire. "The desire is translated into the Name of the Mother-Father. The metaphor of relocation, in place of the Act. Name of the Father of the law, the name of a dead father's things. " This explanation is not very accurate, given that the law - a synonym of Scripture. It turns out that the law already marks out the space where you will live, and where it will be dead, with the reality of the Father is alive or dead, we can find only in a dream, but it is this recognition and acknowledgment is held "name things."
Saying quite simply, bringing the matter to a word, name of the thing - this is the picture, as the name thing - a word with its meaning. That picture is not just a "name" thing, but every time it shows how this thing is different from other things, as this thing does not blind us, and not blind herself, getting in the usual sense of manipulative environment. So, because the Scripture can not be distorted, even though many of the words, phrases, pages of it are gone, many things have already sketched. Their lack of availability due to his mother's wish and production differences Father kills miluyuschim and restores all things, just by the law of association. And then have the artist's skill, the skill of thoughtful, understanding the meaning of metaphors, metonymies and transfers, legitimizing the use of stories, and restores it to the scripture of the state to its integrity.
2.
However, restoration of integrity in the mirror of narcissus, despite "polikefalii" multihead usual save all the words and letters, we find in another argument Lacan. The act of dreaming "reveals precisely the fundamental constituents of the perceived world, which make up the narcissistic relationship. The object is always organized in more or less the image of the subject's body. In the picture perception always hide reflection of the subject, its mirror image - that he gives this film its special quality, its momentum ". [4]
It turns out several interesting points. It turns out that the world is composed of the fundamental things that are closed to each other. It can be a space, time and other conditions of perception, but significantly, it is that they form a dense environment in which Scripture does not sound. Further, it appears that the subject is first processed into the body (and the body of the subject closest to it), then it affects the body, and then it becomes a normalized picture is produced as the result of discrimination.
It turns out that the words of Scripture literally written on the tablets of the heart, the body of the human soul, which sees itself as a reasonable, analytic, critical only in a dream, where possible, through metaphor, to identify with the subject order. While in practical life subject, became a speech already been captured by the skill, which is characteristic of the artist-Narcissa.
Fleeing from his narcissism, as from the finished form of speech, an artist himself becomes a mirror for each letter - and that is the inertia of "pattern of perception": not that the subject of admiring his reflection tempting for him, but that Each letter leaves a trace, leaving the inertia. And then even if some letters forgotten, blotted out, washed with water, the inertia of the object order to restore the whole of Scripture. This inertia is a dream world of objects, but in reality come true as a "special quality" as a special qualitating as a world of distinction.
And if the name of the Father in the life of the body remains the voice of the world, in a dream, it will be just the collapse of the world body. Just this body also disintegrates, as letter of Scripture fly and disappear, killed and carried into heaven, but rather wake to reassemble the Scriptures. Enough wake to correlate all previous experience experienced with authorization of that speech, which alone can about this experience. Far from everything you can tell right away, and also provides narration at once, but this retelling makes clear perception of real states as part of the Scriptures, and ethical choices - as you read this scripture.
3.
Mazin B. writes: "The perceived, imaginary picture of the reality of the dream breaks, and it may be said, pure, uncomplicated hallucinatory perception". [5] And then a quote from Lacan: "a holistic relationship with the represented person picture in one of the corners of which - if not a right - it always finds itself". [6] Signature in several parts of the picture - it is like a "trial" version of authenticity. We trust the product, and print - additional certifying that there are no circumstances invading forgery.
And the Scriptures - we understand it, because it is presented to us, it stands before us as a pattern, and we do not get tired, and we can safely see the entire gallery - to restore everything, including the missing passages of Scripture. Dream is suddenly becoming rest. Therefore explanation Mazin B. "Autograph always been in the picture" needs to be clarified: the autograph is not part of the picture idea, it is a plan of how the painting will be sold, this is the label, label, price tag, label vendor that is in continuous production of distinctions properly organized trade.
But hold on to the letter can then, as stated on the same page when "no one else who could say. This is the moment, which I call the entrance fool, because the subjects to which Freud appeals to play this role. " Jester here does not mean parodies Mockingbird. The point is that the imaginary clown destroys the illusion, the illusion of continuous production, showing a man by his non-productive I am.
Here, in mock situations in which the eye is "optical device" rather than a reflex reflector sleep and thought, and it turns out that every word of Scripture must be cared for, and the loss of even the slightest word killed the whole of Scripture. Whereas in a normal situation, reflections in the economy in which the paintings are sold all the time, because there is investment interest, there is a reflection, coming to the studio all the time drawing a painter, and a restoration of the text of Scripture.
Just as an artist does not put off the brush, and in every gesture, every sound of his silent attention, attracting the interest of a capital, rebuilt the Scriptures. This equity interest previously only dreamed of, but now there was the expansion of perception on the components, and not just a certificate held dream (fabulous item or association working in real life), but also the dream as evidence may be introduced as the productive life of the studio. Then the autograph, as the father's name will be a scripture, and the remaining signatures, samples, simply serve its spread.
4.
Specify the period of painting, in which it functions as Scripture for Lacan, and not as a dogmatic scripture znatocheskom-style, is not easy. Obviously, medieval painting, the next chapter of Scripture, is not fit this definition. If the activity is a picturesque kind of piety, the violation of the order of external piety is a sign that the Bible, the name of the Father, has not yet gained control of the world. That is the scripture, though contained in the book, is not powered, not realized his unique and inimitable power, power, is precisely the uniqueness. And as a free painting in Europe is already a rhetorical thought out composition, the main lines of interpretation which closes on rhetorical gesture, and so it is also can not be completely Scripture in this sense.
But art history search allows you to find parallels to what Lacan thought, especially in the study of images that are part of the same time several "programs": the biblical story, will donator, architectural program, plan the artist. This schizophrenia programs, best known in the art of the Renaissance, can be seen in a new, fresh look, thanks to advances Lacan.
But even more interesting, how to form a representation of the Scriptures through translations of Scripture. [7] There have been numerous cases where the transfer was seen as creation stories, like the production of reality, and not as interpretive practice. Therefore, there is a strange situation where the historical consciousness form a continuous tradition of interpretation, "feeling in history", clashed with this new historical consciousness that required to find "in the beginning", the biblical point of alpha, authorization for any held in the history of meaning.
For the first approach, Adam was a character on whose Fall should reflect (after appropriate training), and for the latter Adam was primarily a "wise man", so that each translation of the Scriptures are updated wisdom and omniscience of Adam. It was Adam, as well as any other authoritative biblical character, and then turns out to the Father, who maintains the authenticity of the inner experience of any reader.
It is clear that if the ratio of the Scriptures is a meditation, the need to control the terms of this meditation, the admission or non-admission to the withering sense requires trust to the text of Scripture, and is not intended to restore its lacunae. The text must be integrated, as an integral should be a geographical map or a financial statement. Whereas in the case of text, always composed, the produced right before our eyes, even though he was carried from the past - the simple attention to it is to fill all the gaps, if any accidental damage. This attention is the very articulate prochityvanie that makes any dream experience factory awaits us happy sense.
We talked about the Scriptures, the Holy basically going to talk in the next issue of the unacceptability column devoted to this time, "Critique of the Underground" Rene Girard.
Notes:
[1] Mazin, Victor. Oneyrokritika Lacan. SPb.: Aletheia, 2013. S. 83.
[2] Lacan, Jacques. Seminars: Prince. 2.: "I" in Freud's theory and in the technique of psychoanalysis. /Translated from French. A. Chernoglazova. Moscow: Gnosis-Logos, 1999. S. 180.
[3] Ibid. S. 114.
[4] Mazin, S. 96, Lacan, S. 239.
[5] Mazin, S. 94.
[6] Lacan, S. 238.
[7] This was the topic of my article: Markov, Alexander. Modern Greek translation of the Scriptures: the invention of historical reality. //Artikult, 2012, № 3 (in print, by grant 12-03-00482 RHF: objectivity, reliability and the fact that in the humanities early modern: a historical reconstruction and the way the reception).
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