ABSTRACT
The antithesis between the unifying aspirations of the imaginary and their symbolic repudiation reflects the antagonistic relation between power and guilt. The fascist excluded symbolic guilt as incompatible with the supremacy of the ideal that J. Lacan served, rendering his position pseudo-ethical. An imaginary law sustains the altitude of power’s ambitions. The consistency of the discourse of the master is sustained by an imaginary narcissistic omnipotence, which turns it into a discourse of domination due to the categorical character of the ideal the master incarnates. The ethics of desire can easily fall into the decoy of the particular, which suggests a pseudo-Kantian particularism. As a way to accomplish a genuine democratic ethos by “encircling the real”, Y. Stavrakakis proposes the idea of sublimation which refers to a process that creates “a space for the unrepresentable within representation”. By using violence as a punitive practice, guilt ensures the commitment to the good, as if an ethical duty is performed.
