vector of desire M&D random

[Mark Kohut]

Lacan is a winner!...Congrats, Joseph, keep playing for even more ..vectors
of signification:

The signifying chain begins in a linguistic sign (S) and progresses to a
signification (S'), or a linguistic meaning
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_meaning>. It can be expressed
sententially and has a duration.

The *vector of desire* is a representation of the volition and will of the
split or barred subject (*$*). Unlike the signifying chain, the vector of
desire is expressed metaphorically, and has no duration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_of_desire

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> random
>  pg 96 Vector of desire. An astronomy term? Lacan? Other reader's
> thoughts, insights.
>
> CH 10 CherryCoke is much more interesting to me this time around. His
> quote fom his unpublished Sermons is rather lovely, comparing our sense of
> the Divine to the earth’s sense of relation to the sun. Very Gaia
> hypothesis kind of thing.
>  We see that the adult component of the listeners coming to hear Ccoke is
> growing. He is getting a bit of flak from them. Is P describing a process
> where he, in a satiric mode, champions the marginal, the colonized, and the
> youn upstarts of his generation like Richard Farina who have questioned the
> wars and the demonization of Cuba , drawing them and the literary avant
> garde first as an audience, and then attracts those who want to modify the
> radical aspects of his satire? Because Ccoke is also a satirist, an
> irreverent reverend feeding salacious stories of real life to the young,
> but also critiquing Clairol culture, and Calvinism and connecting it to
> racial abuse among many other humorous cultural obs.
>
> Not many people joining in the M&D  discussion. Everyone is busy and it is
> a big, cumbersome book. Let’s make sure this is a safe place for newbies,
> and disagreement.  The structure is loose but  just join in and see what
> happens.
>
>
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