#libidinal

Un perrito contemplando los lobos marinos

For Lacan, human culture (the symbolic order) creates a break from the biological real, capturing and restructuring the experience of life through mediating symbols. The body, for example, is conceptualized and organized by labels and categories that under ordinary circumstances stand in the way of any direct experience of its existence. As the philosopher Hilary Putnam has stated, we have no access to such a thing as a language independent-reality. In Lacan’s idiom, we would say there is “no prediscursive reality”. But the symbolic order always falls short of totally capturing lived experience, inevitably excluding a part of the real in which we are rooted. This insufficiency is attributable to the very nature of symbols, which represent missing or absent objects. A symbol, after all, refers to an abstract concept, so that language can only allude to a concrete external referent without totally capturing it. For Lacan, the inability of the symbolic to totally encompass its referents and to represent fully what has been lost creates a constant gradient of desire, a perpetual reaching out for the pure reality behind representation. In the Lacanian formula, desire “insists” in the signifying chain of human speech, straining toward dimly perceived goals and the deferred promise of complete satisfaction. Because achievement of this aim is impossible, we substitute fantasies of sexual, romantic, narcissistic, or material accomplishment that stitch desire to the fabric of social reality, and we convince ourselves that we will be satisfied by realizing them. Desire thus becomes “libidinized” and diverted to existing symbolic objects.

Evitabamos la lluvia un poco aunque sea :(

“La loba, la vieja, la que sabe, está dentro de nosotras. Florece en la más profunda psique del alma de las mujeres, la antigua y vital Mujer Salvaje. Ella describe su hogar como ese lugar en el tiempo donde el espíritu de las mujeres y el espíritu de los lobos hacen contacto. Es el punto donde el Yo y el Tú se besan, el lugar donde las mujeres corren con los lobos (…)”.