Politics
摘要
This chapter explore how Italian Lacanianism engages with political and social spheres beyond the clinic by exploring the libidinal dimension of politics, societal discourses, and the evaporation of the father. Italian Lacanians regard Silvio Berlusconi’s role as pivotal in shifting politics from desire to jouissance in Italy, prefiguring contemporary populist nationalism. The chapter critiques capitalist discourse for de-subjectifying individuals and fostering subjects without unconscious. Italian Lacanians identify the foreclosure of the unconscious as a threat posed by capitalism. The chapter also explores the intersections between Italian Theory and Italian Lacanianism through concepts such as Recalcati’s securitarian drive and fascist unconscious, Tarizzo’s collective subjectivation, Berardi’s third unconscious, Ferraris’ realitism, and Lolli’s unconshow. It concludes with an analysis of Videocracy, documenting the Italian postmillennial subject’s relationship with jouissance.