<documenta X><blast> psychic space and time
Bracha Lichtenberg - Ettinger (bracha@easynet.fr)
Sun, 15 Jun 1997 02:54:05 +0200
Olessia Tourkina and Viktor Mazin wrote: >regress from the dangerous
presence (Da) to the virtual space >of the past (Fort).
Would you like to further elaborate on that? a psychic space is born here,
you seem to remind us, in relation to moves between presence and absence
that are articulated upon different moments in a linear time. How does this
lead to multiplicity?
In freud's presentations of the early relations to the object, patterened
upon mental digestion of the experience of the loss of the mother, via
playing and mastering presence and loss of an object of play, the presence
(Da) is comforting and the loss (Fort) is dangerous, and also, the presence
is backed by an expereience of return which is imaginative if not
hallucinatory. Thus, unlike the movie hero whose "regress to visulization
is homologues to the hallucinatory infantile space", in the Fort/Da
experience visuatization is conceived, to begin with, as a psychic
"progress". At the same time, visualizing is regressive in relation to the
Symbolic space. Here as well, diffences in space are articulated though and
with differences in time.
Lacan's "gaze" (as objet a) and Lyotard's figure-matrice, dealing with the
figurality of an archaic loss, of a lost and nameless psychic substance in
the visual-psychic space, are also based upon Freud's Fort/Da notions. For
Lyotard, it is not presence upon loss that is the heart of the matter, but
the recurrences of present/absent conjunctions and pulsational scansions
correlating to phantasmatic alternations, articulated via the impossibility
of encounters of impulse and jouissance, related to body and image, with
desire that is symbolic. Here,time does not seem to "help" differentiating
space. Beyond both presence AND absence articulated as one and the same
moment, an archaic unapproachable loss hovers in its own space,
unaccessible by both the movement of Fort-lost and the movement of
Da-here/now.
Brach Lichtenberg-Ettinger