Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual

Wright, Colin

Abstract

This chapter outlines the different conceptualisations of 'discourse' in the work of Foucault and Lacan. If Foucault's understanding has been much more influential in academic approaches such as Discourse Analysis, the links between Lacan's notion of discourse and the ethical stakes foregrounded by the clinic are, it is argued, potentially more useful to the politics of critique. This claim is explored through a Lacanian interpretation of the psychiatric 'bible', the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, as a 'discourse' that fits what Lacan identified as the 'discourse of the capitalist'.

Citation

Wright, C. (2016). Discourse and the master's lining: a Lacanian critique of the globalizing (bio)politics of the diagnostic and statistical manual. In S. Tomšič, & A. Zevnik (Eds.), Jacques Lacan: between psychoanalysis and politics. Routledge

• Publication Date: 2016
• Deposit Date: Sep 8, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 8, 2017
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Series Title: Interventions
• Book Title: Jacques Lacan: between psychoanalysis and politics
• Chapter Number: 9
• ISBN: 9780415724333
• Keywords: Lacan, Foucault, Discourse, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/758974
• Publisher URL: https://www.routledge.com/Jacques-Lacan-Between-Psychoanalysis-and-Politics/Tomsic-Zevnik/p/book/9780415724333
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Jacques Lacan: between psychoanalysis and politics on 14 August 2015, available online: https://www.routledge.com/Jacques-Lacan-Between-Psychoanalysis-and-Politics/Tomsic-Zevnik/p/book/9780415724333
• Contract Date: Sep 8, 2017