Osserman Jordan, Lê Aimée
Psychosocial Studies, Birkbeck University of London, London, UK.
English, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK.
Wellcome Open Res. 2020 Jun 10;5:133. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15959.1. eCollection 2020.
Typical responses to a confrontation with failures in authority, or what Lacanians term 'the lack in the Other', involve attempts to shore it up. A patient undergoing psychoanalysis eventually faces the impossibility of doing this successfully; the Other will always be lacking. This creates a space through which she can reimagine how she might intervene in her suffering. Similarly, when coronavirus forces us to confront the brute fact of the lack in the Other at the socio-political level, we have the opportunity to discover a space for acting rather than continuing symptomatic behaviour that increasingly fails to work.
面对权威的失败，或者用拉康派的术语来说“他者的缺失”时，典型的反应包括试图加以弥补。接受精神分析的患者最终会面临无法成功做到这一点的情况；他者总是缺失的。这创造了一个空间，通过这个空间，她可以重新设想如何干预自己的痛苦。同样，当新冠病毒迫使我们在社会政治层面面对他者缺失的残酷现实时，我们有机会发现一个行动的空间，而不是继续采取越来越无效的症状性行为。
