Description
Based on Freudian propositions about the inherently disharmonious relationship between the subject and culture, Lacan proposes discourses as a means of organizing social connections and generating jouissance. There are four discourse modalities: the discourse of the master, the university, the hysteric, and the analyst. We advocate for the inseparability of clinical practice and cultural issues, as the subject's unconscious represents the Other. Therefore, changes in the realm of the Other lead to changes in the subject's constitution. Throughout history, in the master's position, patriarchal discourse sought to confine women to predetermined roles. However, feminist discourses, adopting a hysteric discursive stance, have altered signifiers and induced significant changes in virtually all cultural domains. Our working hypothesis is that, in the face of the absence of women, subjects often adopt a hysteric discursive stance in the pursuit of ceaseless knowledge. Sometimes, they succumb to the master's discourse as the source of answers, while at other times, they expose its harmful effects. This work constitutes a psychoanalytic research focused on women's discourses. It is based on the extraction of women's discourses from blogs. The overarching goal is to analyze discursive constructs pertaining to women, femininity, and the feminine in contemporary times. The specific objectives include understanding what these speeches reveal about the current feminine position and investigating women's discourses in feminist blogs from a Lacanian perspective. We have found that the contemporary capitalist discourse, aligned with the university discourse, positions itself as a master. It offers solutions that evade castration and increasingly rely less on the use of words. Consequently, a commercial logic emerges for addressing contemporary issues. Some discourses encountered in blogs cater to the demands of the present master by constructing women's and femininity-related issues based on reality. While this is an essential starting point, our emphasis lies in symbolic and unique constructions. Conversely, certain discourses expose the discomfort generated by the master's discourse and resist renouncing the Other's jouissance. They advocate for a less universalizing standpoint and alternative approaches. As psychoanalysis practitioners, it is our responsibility to reaffirm the ethics of psychoanalysis. By positioning ourselves as an object of desire, we enable the creation of something unprecedented beyond the dominant discourse.
