ENG 311-Fall.18 || with Error-free Solutions.

Lacan's theory of desire correct answers = desire is predicated upon lack {All desire is born from a lack, which is constitutive of the subject and condemns him/her to permanent incompleteness; this translates into Lacan's claim that the signifying chain is always incomplete, there's always another "signifier" that can be added to the chain, so the desired "signified" is always lacking} The Imaginary (Lacan) correct answers = the Order wherein the ego is formed via the child's identification with its own image in the mirror stage {refers to the ego's continuous striving for wholeness; characterized as "fraud" because such wholeness is always only imaginary} The Symbolic (Lacan) correct answers = the Order of symbols that constitutes the human subject's experience of reality {everything from language to the law to the social order; characterized by "absence" or "lack" since the signified is always slipping out from underneath the signifier} The Real (Lacan) correct answers = the Order which cannot be symbolized or imagined {i.e., that which is outside language and imagination; characterized as "the impossible"} The mirror stage (Lacan) correct answers = wherein the infant begins to recognize him/herself as a unified object in mirrors and thus begins to think of him/herself as a separate Ego {corresponds to Freud's Oedipal phase, wherein the subject establishes its identity vis a vis its parents, but its identity for Lacan is a desire for fullness that it will always lack} Little other (l'autre) correct answers = the Imaginary other as unattainable object of desire {represents other people insofar as they serve as our counterparts in discourse but are actually only reflections and projections of our own Egos} Big Other (l'Autre) correct answers = the Symbolic Order as it is experienced by individual subjects, or another subject who stands for the Symbolic Order {represents an otherness that transcends the illusory otherness of the Imaginary because it cannot be assimilated through identification; e.g., God, the Law, Society, or an individual priest or policeman} "Take care of freedom," says Rorty correct answers = "and truth will take care of itself" {focus on creating a society where everyone's free to argue their own version of truth, and what ultimately gets accepted as truth will work itself out naturally between them} Language, according to Rorty correct answers = is not a medium that "represents" the outer world or "expresses" our inner world, but a tool we use to get along {it is therefore "contingent," i.e., "a product of time and chance"} Neoliberalism (Giroux and Szeman) correct answers = "construes profit making as the essence of democracy" and thus rationalizes the privatization of public life {ideology espoused by Reagan and all subsequent administrations that promotes a return to the "free-market" origins of capitalism via "deregulation" and "privatization"}