ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 introduces the idea of a Lacanian Discourse Analysis Theory. The chapter departs from the idea that Reality is constructed through a political discursive operation departing from Ernesto Laclau’s work. To show how Reality can be seen as the product of specific political discursive operations, the author analyzes core notions from Laclau’s work such as points de capiton for a possible implementation of Lacanian Discourse Analysis as the instrument to observe how Reality is the product of discursive operations. However, the chapter introduces an innovative element to how the Lacanian Left observes the discursive foundation of Reality by affirming that these discursive operations have ontic and ontological consequences, which establish the limits of what can be spoken about—ontic—but also the limits of who can speak—ontological. This affirmation leads to thinking of the discursive construction of Reality as a power struggle that results in the distribution of unequal political agencies. We also start to develop the idea of how different ontological statuses are created employing discursive operations. Thus, the chapter introduces a renewed reading on how the subject emerges through language in Lacan by affirming that different subjects are produced from these operations. To explain this, we analyze from a feminist approach fundamental concepts such as the Lacanian subject, lack, desire, jouissance, fantasy, and objet petit a.
