The concept of citizen in postmarxist theory. The Return of the political and the issue of madness

FARRÁN, ROQUE

International Journal of Zizek Studies

Open Humanities Press

Lugar: Leeds (UK); Año: 2008 vol. 2 p. 1 - 16

1669-8401

    In this article I will try to show an inherent aphoría of our modern citizens condition: the duplicity of being, simultaneously, object and subject of the Law. The implicative modality that I assume in this presentation corresponds with the intellectual position formulated by the same authors that I present: Badiou, Rancière, Laclau y Zizek. Therefore, I will appeal to circumscribe this problem to the posmarxist political theory, psychoanalysis and literature. Thereby, one of the points I am interested to determine is the exacerbated dimension that madness has reached in this modern times, inherent to the contemporary subjective positions that cannot resolve the constitutive aporética of the modern political subject through an inventive jump (sublimatory). In this sense, madness will be approached in its political and social dimension, beyond the specificity of clinical categories. Finally, I will display two concepts that are fundamental in Alain Badiou`s philosophy: the concept of event and the concept of truth, as theoretical-methodological instruments to orientate us, as modern political citizens, in this time of abrupt changes and contingencies more than just discursive.