The Normative Foundation Of Lacanian Marxism

From the viewpoint and standpoint of Marxism,this article attempts to discuss the thought of Lacanian Marxism through the prism of normative problems.Lacanian Marxists,especially Slavoj Zizek,combined Lacan’s psychoanalytic theory with Marxism,analyzed and examined the new form of norms in the late capitalist society.It not only revealed the fantasy of norms in ideology and power relations,but also examined the unconscious operating mechanism of the Symbolic order in the capitalist framework and its relationship with normalization.It also reveals the split of universal norms through the development of Lacanian psychoanalysis concept of the Real.This theoretical approach includes both a critique of the late capitalist society and a materialist exploration of human liberation and human freedom.It can not only provide a psychoanalytic perspective for the current normative research,but also enrich the contemporary research of Marxism.Based on this,this article is divided into six parts to examine the normative foundation of Lacanian Marxism.The introduction introduces Lacanian Marxism and its related concepts,and summarizes the research background,research significance,theoretical review and research ideas of this article;Chapter one first dissociates the authority of universal norms,and directly proposes the norms of heterogeneity with its distinction from the norms of homogeneity.The reason for the norms of heterogeneity lies in the unconscious dimension structured by the law of signifier,together with the normative parallax caused by antinomy.It is manifested in the field of science as a split between science and meaning,and in the field of practice as a split between factuality and normativity.This irreducible premise makes norms need to look for possibilities from impossibility.The operating mechanism of the Imaginary,the Symbolic,and the Real in Lacanian psychoanalysis provides a dialectical way out for the possibility of norms.Chapter two is devoted to analyzing the alienation of subject when it goes from the mirror stage to the Symbolic,and then points out the relationship between the subject’s alienation and the becoming of norms.First,the subject needs to be alienated in order to register the Symbolic order,which makes the subject have to recognize the interpellation of the Name-of-the-Father as the norms,in order to smoothly register itself from the mirror stage to the Symbolic;Second,the norms also need to realize its own effectiveness and reproduction.In the Symbolic system,the reproduction of norms benefits from the operation of the ideology as the big Other and the power mechanism.The ideology’s interpellation functions through the normativity of "law-morality",while the power mechanism governs the subject through the discipline logic.However,the lack of the Other will lead to the coexistence of "explicit norm" and "implicit norm"in ideology and the surplus pleasure in power relations.This lack of the Other will cause the subject to query endlessly and return to the Real in a repetitive manner.Chapter three therefore examines a psychoanalytic practice towards the Real,which involves the subject’s desire,jouissance,sin,evil and other factors,which are usually regarded as the irrational factors,will reveal the light spot of the existing norms and the gaps of the universal norms,in which the subject of action who is not give up to the desire will emerge;Chapter four examines Zizek’s reveals of the inherent negativity of norms,that norms are in the constant mediation of form and content,and the goal of the subject of action is to make a revolution to the current norms,based on its drive repeated actions,and to disappear as "vanishing mediator" after the realization of the transition behavior of norms from form to substance,this act is regarded as an ethical act;Chapter five is dedicated to compare and evaluate the normative thoughts of the Lacanian Marxist Slavoj Zizek in the different ways of reviving the German idealism tradition,compares Zizek’s revolutionary act through the detour of psychoanalysis with Marx’s revolutionary practice,reveals the materialism explore of this approach,and points out the theoretical contribution and limitation of Lacanian Marxism;the conclusion part summarizes the normative foundation of Lacanian Marxism and makes theoretical reflections.