You never know your luck

Lacan reads Pascal

Dominiek Hoens

pp. 241-249

in: Thomas Brockelman, Dominiek Hoens (eds), The object of psychoanalysis, Continental Philosophy Review 46 (2), 2013.

Abstract

In this paper the question of the object in Freud's metapsychology is sketched out from an economical point of view, that is in terms of pleasure and displeasure. This allows for a reading of Pascal's wager that makes clear what interest Lacan had in discussing this one pensée at length in his Seminar on the Object of Psychoanalysis. The central issue in Lacan's reading concerns the object a as a stake the subject has lost.

Cited authors

Lacan Jacques

Pascal Blaise