Lacanian Ink 34 - Delirium

Left to the vagaries of the Symbolic, interpretation is an endless process of discovering a secret behind a secret. This is why, for Lacan, it is crucial to identify a domain this side of hermeneutics which can eventually put a limit to the hermeneutic delirium: psychoanalysis is not hermeneutics, especially not a deep one. It deals with the subject contemporary to the rise of the modern Real which emerges when meaning is evacuated from reality: not only the scientific real accessible in mathematical formulas, but also, from Sartre to Schelling, the proto-ontological abyss of the inertia of mere real deprived of any meaning. For Lacan, there is thus no need for psychoanalytic hermeneutics religion does this job quite well. Slavoj Zizek