Act, Logic and Sexuation: Considerations on the Politics of Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious

Abstract

This article aims to revisit the lacanian aphorism "the unconscious is politics" based on the interlocution between unconscious, politics and act, to which we seek to link a fourth element, sexuation - and the consequent introduction of an opposition between two logics, the all-phallic and the not-all. Understanding sexuation beyond the semblances and the phallic signification, turning to the hole and the impossibility of saying everything about sex, is what allows us to think about the logical reduction that produces the unconscious in its fundamental dimension of indeterminacy, which points to the strength of a not-all logic that resists to any imaginary, identity-based or even ontological closure of the subject. The radicality of the psychoanalytic experience resides in this dimension of ontological non-realization, of refusal of completeness, which, when operating with openness to the impossible, to indeterminacy and to lack, promotes ruptures in the significant alienation inherent to the politics of the One.