Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

la hiancia del sujeto

English translation:

béance dehiscence/the splitting of the subject against himself

Added to glossary by liz askew
Mar 29, 2008 23:21
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Spanish term

la hiancia del sujeto

Spanish to English Science Psychology Lacan's theories
this is something Lacan coined, I can't find the equivalent in English, had never heard in Spanish. If someone can help, Ill be grateful.
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Mar 30, 2008 21:26: liz askew Created KOG entry

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drboer Mar 30, 2008:
I just saw in Carlos Vergara's answer that the orinigal term was in French: 'béance'.
drboer Mar 30, 2008:
Not a bad idea, but I think that one should use the term in the original language it what made in. Lacan probably did not write in spanish (being French in a field dominated by German). Still, I would translate and add the original term in brackets.
Elizabeth Medina Mar 30, 2008:
Given that this is a word coined by Lacan, don't you think that it would be best to leave it as is, in italics, because it isn't really part of the translator's work to explain the term; the author of the original text should do that. It occurs to me.
drboer Mar 30, 2008:
I don't know much about this subject. I did find this page: http://www.sou.edu/English/Hedges/Sodashop/RCenter/Theory/Pe... with the term "the hole in the self". Many pages speak of 'split-self', but it's not the translation you want. HIH!

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the hole/abyss/opening

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Lacan plantea una vuelta a Freud, manteniendo la relación de lo no realizado, la hiancia que muestra el inconsciente y que los analistas post-freudianos trataron de suturar psicologizando la teoría analítica. Es en la hiancia, en el tropiezo, en las fallas, en la fisura donde Freud halla el inconsciente. Y es en esta hiancia donde Lacan introduce en el dominio de la causa, la ley del significante e indica como lectura el capítulo VII de La interpretación de los sueños, el punto A- El olvido de los sueños, donde Freud se refiere a los juegos del significante a través de una sucesión de ejemplos. Ya había afirmado Lacan que el inconsciente está estructurado como un lenguaje.


La cartografía inconsciente del ser cambia con las épocas
En relación al cuerpo marcado por el sexo se hace presente una hiancia entre lo real del cuerpo y las representaciones del cuerpo que se pueden habitar o que se pretenden habitar para otorgarse una identidad sexual. Esta consideración es efecto de la clínica psicoanalítica y difiere de la diferencia elemental que establece la psicología y la sociología entre naturaleza y cultura, al distinguir el sexo “natural” y los “roles”.

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Memorias de las XIV Jornadas de Investigación Tercer Encuentro de ...
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of Unconscious, hysterics and body. The concept is interrogated ...... desgarrados por la hiancia que separa el yo real (al decir freu-. diano) del Ideal. ...
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¿What is that truth? It is the truth of an issue that is not property of man, but that concerns the absolute reference to the other: the invaluable object, sex, maybe identified here as a figure of the absolute deficiency, the place of the other in the body. The man is only its depository; he would have only the use of sex; the non-possesion of sex. The second dimension of this truth remits to the hole, the opening, the defect, the deficiency, that, as we saw, it is found in the etymology of this concept: it is the knot of the human being, it is the inaugural nucleus in man. It is essential to make relevant this third dimension of the truth of the sex as material of the abyss: this hole is an abyss without which we can't see why the law should have to do anything with pleasure, I mean, why the man, carrier of absolute, is taken always to that original béance [Note: hiancia in the Spanish original, which was in turn a translation from French made by the Argentinian newspaper].


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The Subversion of the Subject - No Subject - Encyclopedia of ...
2) This line separates the subject from himself in his ego ideal as first ..... 304e/806 Lacan elsewhere (1959) speaks of the "hole in the real" caused by ...
nosubject.com/The_Subversion_of_the_Subject_and_the_Dialectic_of_Desire_in_the_Freudian_Unconscious - 129k - Cached - Similar pages


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PEP Web - Ego and Subject in Lacan
Lacan's emphasis has been on the speaking subject coming to ... Lacan places heavy emphasis on the ontological status of a béance, an abyss, gap, lack, ...
www.pep-web.org/document.php?id=psar.069.0234a - Similar pages
PEP Web - Jacques Lacan: 1901-1981
Born with the century (1901), Jacques Lacan never found it necessary to resist ..... the breach [béance], here depicted in organic terms, will later be ...
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by Irene Rima Makaryk - 1993 - Literary Criticism - 656 pages
The bar separating signifier and signified comes to represent in Lacanian thought a gap or fissure (a béance) that stands both for the differential ...
books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=080206860X...

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Sorry, to bang on about this _ I have returned from a walk along the

So, I am suggesting

Dehiscence of the subject

as my final answer

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dehiscence of the subject/the splitting of the subject against himself


http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:BjVbY29x4b0J:www.processp...

as important to note that aggressivity and aggression are not the same. For Lacan, aggression is a derivative of the death drive (Todestrieb) while aggressivity is the acting out of aggression through the symbolic and imaginary orders. Following Freud (1920), aggressivity is both the deflection of self-destruction and a defensive, protective reaction to an external threat. Lacan (1948) shows that aggressivity is immured within the structures of subjectivity "by its very constitution" (p.9), and avouches that "aggressivity in experience is given to us as intended aggression and as an image of corporeal dislocation" (p.10). As we have said, imagos can be noxious and disfiguring, thus leading to fragmentation and a fracturing of the body. The ego attempts to fantasize the illusion of mastery and unity in the face of these dislocated and contrary experiences characteristic of the child's fragmented bodily states which are displaced as aggressivity directed toward others. Richard Boothby (1991) argues that "aggressivity is a drive toward violation of the imaginary form of the body that models the ego. It is because aggressivity represents a will to rebellion against the imago that aggressivity is specifically linked in fantasy to violations of the bodily integrity" (p.39). Thus, for Lacan (1966), "the notion of aggressivity corresponds . . . to the splitting of the subject against himself" (p.344). Such "dehiscence" in the nascent ego gives rise to persecutory anxiety, hence the origins of knowledge are paranoiac in their "most general structure."


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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "I found the quotes most useful! I will use the French word and then expalin it. Thanks!"
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the hiance of the subject

These are the only references I've found, and none in English:

Cancina Pura H.De cet intervalle, de cette hiance, dépend la conception du concept que Lacan expose déjà au séminaire XI et implique qu'il s'établit toujours comme une ...
www.lutecium.org/convergencia/texte/cancina-f.htm - 12k - En caché - Páginas similares

Búsqueda de TRANSFERENCIALa transferencia supuesta de Lacan . — Buenos Aires : Xavier Boveda, . — 113 p ; Solicitar en: BIBLIOTECA MAYOR , I, 1, B834. [Ver registro completo] ...
www.bibliotecas.unc.edu.ar/cgi-bin/Libreo-Uncor?accion=busc... - 227k - En caché - Páginas similares

Lúcido Límpido Proparoxítono: Dormindo com o texto do LacanLacan inventa palavras. O cara inventa tudo. Fala em nó borromeamo, inventa uma valise de falar e ... HIANCE (A.L.): neologicamente traduzido por hiância. ...
lucidolimpidoproparoxitono.blogspot.com/2008/02/dormindo-com-o-texto-do-lacan.html - 51k - En caché - Páginas similares

Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) www.lacan.k6.com.br > VocabularioSegundo Lacan: ímpeto visando preencher a falha aberta pela falta-a-ser (ver esse termo). .... HIANCE (A.L.):. neologicamente traduzido por hiância. ...
br.geocities.com/jacqueslacan19011981/vocabulario.htm - 49k
Peer comment(s):

agree Egmont
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Thank you AVRVM :)
neutral liz askew : The term does need to be explained in English otherwise nobody will know what it means and what is the point of that? Translators are supposed to make it understandable to the audience, IMO.
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Thanks Liz. One could put it in italics, as a foreign word.
neutral Cynthia Plac (X) : Liz: All is dependent upon the scope of Delores' text. : ) We do not know author's style or audience. So far, we are lacking/in a gap-hiance-abyss-hiatus-hole in terms of context, but we free thinkers don't mind waiting, am I right? : )
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the gap

El término francés usado originalmente por Lacan es béance, que se trasladó al español como hiancia. En las dos referencias que pongo abajo se ha traducido béance del frances al inglés como "gap".
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agree Rachel Fell : I'd include "béance" in brackets http://phoenixandturtle.net/excerptmill/3readings.htm http://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/047209811X-em.pdf
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gracias
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the hiatus of the subject

Without more context, it is hard to tell, but it means an abeyance or gap in action and appears frequently in discussions of Lacan:

Lacan describes desire as a kind of arc that goes out into space from the place in the body where the hiatus of the void is located, then circles around ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=1892746638

(demand) and what one needs, and this hiatus is what Lacan designates as. desire. The Other alluded to must be understood as the unconscious (strictly, ...
www.janushead.org/8-2/Olivier.pdf

Lacan publishes a sonnet, “Hiatus Irrationalis,” in Le Phare de. Neuilly 3/4. He meets Marie-Louise Blondin, the sister of his. friend Sylvain Blondin. ...
assets.cambridge.org/97805218/07449/frontmatter/9780521807449_frontmatter.pdf
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lack of the object

see below references

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under Jacques Lacan:
http://nosubject.com/Castration

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But actually, through this reference, you will find a more used term: "No subject"

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According to Wikipedia's page for Lacan, below "Other Concepts", you will see the term just referred to as "Lack" alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lack_(manque)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lack_(manque)

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Lacan

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http://web.utk.edu/~misty/Anderson376Lacan.html

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http://nosubject.com/Lack

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"From the beginning of his teaching, Lacan noted that for Freud the object is fundamentally lost, and the subject spends his life looking for it. The object of psychoanalysis is the lack of an object, and this lacking object is at the heart of being. Lacan started elaborating on this notion of a lack of being in 1957, when he set about describing the oedipal crisis in terms of the dialectic of desire and the question of the phallus."

taken from:
http://www.enotes.com/psychoanalysis-encyclopedia/want-being...



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The term "lack of the subject" is my final answer: Googling "lacan lack of subject" provides not only reputable scientific references, but a statistically higher search result:

:::: over 260 000 results

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"Lacking Lacan
After Lacan, psychoanalysis remains a system, with fanatical followers. Psychoanalytic readings, or so goes the standard complaint, still read a predetermined message into literary texts. Derrida agrees on both counts. Lacan finds what he wants in Poe because he pumps it into the text. This "lack" of which he speaks is poststructuralist only on the surface. Lacan may seem to play around, but for him lack is all too real, the essential subject of psychoanalysis. "
taken from: http://www.haberarts.com/lacan.htm
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