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  • Psychoanalysis
  • Cultural Studies
  • Social Psychology

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  • Lacan's discourse theory provides a framework for analyzing social relations.
  • Capitalist discourse, as theorized by Lacan, offers a unique mode of addressing fundamental human disconnects.
  • Understanding subjectivity within capitalist culture requires examining its specific discursive mechanisms.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To characterize subjectivity within capitalist culture.
  • To analyze Lacan's concept of capitalist discourse and its implications for psychoanalytic theory.
  • To differentiate the function of capitalist discourse in neurotic versus psychotic structures.

Main Methods:

  • Building on Lacan's seminars (XVI-XIX) on discourse theory.
  • Analyzing the capitalist discourse (1972) in relation to jouissance and semblance.
  • Presenting two clinical vignettes illustrating neurotic and psychotic structures.

Main Results:

  • Capitalist discourse functions to ignore the sexual non-rapport and the unconscious in neurosis.
  • Psychosis is characterized by an exclusion from discourse, where consumerism may offer a semblance.
  • The study differentiates how neurotic and psychotic subjects engage with capitalist discourse.

Conclusions:

  • Capitalist discourse is a specific mode of managing the 'sexual non-rapport'.
  • Consumerism can provide a semblance for psychotic individuals, enabling new relational possibilities.
  • The psychoanalytic understanding of subjectivity is illuminated by examining capitalist discourse.