ABSTRACT
Key Concepts: discourse as semblance, the outside meaning in psychoses and neuroses, Agape and Eros, the G-d of the Law and the G-d of jouissance.
People sometimes think that the ‘outside of meaning’ in the Real necessarily implies the foreclosure of meaning and the foreclosure of the Name of the Father. People think that the ‘outside meaning’ in femininity is the same as the ‘outside meaning’ for psychosis. In the mystic or femininity, the outside meaning is neurotic. Neurotic refers to a normal human subjectivity.
Do you know the difference between Agape and love or Eros? Isn’t agape ‘friendship love’? Agape is Platonic love, sublime love, and brotherly love as the Christian form of love (philia). But for Freud, love was complicated because he considered all these aspects of love interrelated as opposed to being able to clearly delineate a difference. This makes us see double or triple and become perplexed.
G-d the Father versus the G-d of feminine jouissance: are those two gods or a god and a goddess?
God the Father in Judaism is the source of the commandments and the prohibitions. The prohibitions take away what you are not supposed to enjoy or do, and so on. This is contrasted with the dark G-d of the mystics and the G-d of jouissance, which is also a classical kind of distinction within religion. There is the G-d of the mystics, and then there is the G-d of the religious traditionalists, and the G-d of the philosophers. You see that clearly in Judaism, where you have the G-d of the Law and then you have the G-d of the Kabbalah (which is the G-d of the mystics). The G-d of the mystics refers to the feminine presence of the divine and the G-d of the Law is a remote and absent G-d.
