Jouissance (4 of 7) : Enjoyments that bond us

Our enjoyments are entangled with the perceived excess enjoyments of others, with the perception that we have have been somehow robbed of some deserved enjoyment. Otherness is not thus simply a social construction, it is the effect of our insistence that we have been robbed of some libidinal enjoyment and that some other is thereby blameworthy. We do a call out to ’Lacan and the Political’ by Yannis Stavrakakis (1999) who outlines the idea of racism as the theft of enjoyment. The Lacanian political ethics that emerges from this position can be stated thus: might it be that what I imagine the other has taken from me, I never had? In short: rather than confront our own lack - our own castration - we would rather find a villain whom is to blame for what we narcissistically feel we should have had. Link to board: