The Unbearable Object: A Lacanian Critique of Heideggerian Anxiety

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Author
Motmans, Charlotte
Keyword
First Reader Jennifer K. Uleman
Senior Project
Semester Spring 2022
Readers/Advisors
Uleman, Jennifer K.
Term and Year
Spring 2022
Date Published
2022

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/12673
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to critique Heidegger's account of anxiety (Angst) from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective. This paper will argue that Heidegger lacks an adequate theory of desire and enjoyment and as a result he fails to properly account for a persecutory and paranoid aspect of anxiety that is exemplified in the experience of the uncanny (Unheimlich). Lacan's theory, by considering the radically Other maternal dimension (or mOther) is better positioned to offer a theory of anxiety that accounts for the persecutory and paranoid aspect of anxiety.
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