ABSTRACT
To speak about a ‘Lacanian Discourse Analysis’ requires a revitalization of all manifestations of subjective truth – whether these are individual or collective – by breaking them down into distinct psychic instances and mechanisms that transform them into feasible reading. 1 This may be done through a correlative repositioning of the subject-reader, which is not necessarily founded on the vanishing of repression, but rather – as in the historiographical Lacanian reading that is discussed later – deals with non-therapeutic practices. Here the practices should be studied from the perspective of a psychoanalytic conceptualization, which defends the notion that the unconscious is structured as language. Concurrently we take Foucault’s (1984/2007) distinction between power and domination, with the understanding that a productive dialectic assumes that tensions between discourses, whether – as previously stated – these are singular or collective, disciplinary or interdisciplinary, will not result in a transforming force that transcends utilitarian criteria when the tensions are locked into a logic of domination among players.
