Pankaj Mishra manifests and marvels at the claim of victimhood by the rich Indians in England, USA and other parts of the world . Back home, we have similar claims to victimhood too. It has been surprising that these rich upper caste Indians claim victimhood of imperialism and colonization of the past even though they might have benefited from...
Jouissance of Co-being
The Locus of the work of Francis D’sa SJ is cross-cultural dialogue. Cross cultural dialogue requires us to come to the border of our own culture. It is a border crossing without losing one’s cultural moorings. It an intercultural activity. It requires an inter-cultural and inter-religious dialogue. This means we require a pre-understanding that enables the hermeneutical circle to...
Jouissance of Apophatism
Art speaks without speaking . Art is able to say something without not saying it. It means where off we cannot speak, we speak in silence or we speak through art. Art takes us to the limit of language or a relation of speaking to its other. Art has a capacity to embody the truth. It speaks without speaking....
Jouissance of Dialogue
Maybe we have to say, in the beginning was the Real or maybe we might say in the beginning was the jouissance. When we opt for the Real , we embrace a limit. This limit is from our position. This limit is a limit of understanding. It is in this morass that we have the chain of signifiers. It...
Embracing Jouissance (Enjoyment) of Jesus Christ
Discipleship in Lacanian sense involves the embracing of the jouissance of Jesus. We, therefore, have to ask what is the jouissance of Jesus? The idea of God as an enjoyer does not fully seat in place within theology. Indian philosophy does think of World as lila or God’s play. Even Lord Krishna manifests as a playful God among the...
Juissance (Enjoyment) of the Reading of the Word
One of the Enjoyment of the signifier is the enjoyment of the written or spoken word. The word is made of signifier pointing to the signified/ meaning. The relation between the signifier and the signified as thought by Ferdinand Saussure, the father of linguistics as arbitrary. To Lacan it is not just arbitrary, but is unstable, multivocal and never...
Juissance (Enjoyment) of a Christian
Desire is studied by psychoanalysis. We think desire mainly from the perspective of satisfaction. In India, Buddhists think that desire is the cause of all sufferings. Ancient Greek philosophy actually thinks desire from the point of its satisfaction of a lack. The lack that characterizes desire is supposed to refer to the original absence of lack. It presupposes an...
The Paradox of Freedom and Free Nation
Thinking freedom is an uneasy experience. Desire for freedom is endless. Everyone wants more freedom. But paradoxically, all political regimes proclaim that they are pro freedom. Even when the despotic nature of the regime is obvious to any keen observer. Freedom, therefore, may be denied in practice but it is never denied as a fundamental value of human existence....
The Untimely Arrival of Death
Gabriel Marcel says, ” when someone we love dies, we too die a little”. Somehow death disrupts our experience of life. Here, I wish to understand death through the thought of Maurice Blanchot, a French philosopher and literary theorist. Blanchot offers a unique perspective on the experience of death, particularly when it arrives untimely. Shakespeare’s Hamlet describes the untimely...
The Power of Silence: Gayatri Spivak’s Approach to Writing History
Gayatri Spivak, a renowned postcolonial theorist, has made significant contributions to way silence is used to serve power. In the light of her work we can study how use of silence produces history on the side of the power elite. Therfore, we have the challenge to explores Spivak’s approach to silence and its implications for historical narratives. The Subaltern...
