January 1978
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... The question that underlies the present study concerns the relationship between ethics and identity, which from a Lacanian perspective may be more accurately described as exploring how ethics is constituted in the very process of constructing identities (Lacan, 1992). What has been referred to as "the ethics of the Real" (Contu, 2008, p. 367) is an understanding of human beings as subjects in relation to what Lacan calls the real (Lacan, 1977), the irreducible kernel of reality that we lack access to and around which all our desires and motivations revolve. As I will explain further below, it is in how we position ourselves in relation to this lack of connection to the real that we become ethical subjects (Lacan, 1992). ...
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