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<p>Lee Edelman’s engagement with Jacques Lacan in <i>No Future</i> and <i>Bad Education</i> is well known; what remains unexamined, though, is the extent to which these readings reflect Lacan himself. Here, I outline Edelman’s attempted subtraction of the symbolic from the real by analyzing the <i>sinthome</i>, the real, the death drive. My position—and, I contend, Lacan’s position—is that eliminating the dialectic of real and symbolic is both impossible and leaves the subject without its essential critical potential. To rescue the Lacanian dialectic, then, is also to rescue a dialectical subjectivity that retains the representation, necessary for its existence.</p>

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Lacan contra Edelman: The meaning of Lacan’s real dialectic

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    2025年8月1日

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  • Jake Sokolofsky

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Lee Edelman’s engagement with Jacques Lacan in No Future and Bad Education is well known; what remains unexamined, though, is the extent to which these readings reflect Lacan himself. Here, I outline Edelman’s attempted subtraction of the symbolic from the real by analyzing the sinthome, the real, the death drive. My position—and, I contend, Lacan’s position—is that eliminating the dialectic of real and symbolic is both impossible and leaves the subject without its essential critical potential. To rescue the Lacanian dialectic, then, is also to rescue a dialectical subjectivity that retains the representation, necessary for its existence.