Abstract

BORGES, Sonia. Who's afraid of ready-made?: Psychoanalysis, interpretation and contemporary art. Stylus (Rio J.) [online]. 2012, n.25, pp.59-67. ISSN 1676-157X.

This article discusses Lacan's orientation for the work of interpretation in light of his amazing statement: Interpretation is the ready-made, Marcel Duchamp [...], made in the conference The third, in 1974. With this definition of interpretation, not only does Lacan radicalize his criticism to the hermeneutic perspective of the interpretation, but also ratifies the idea of having equivocation as his paradigm. For the fact of silently showing what an object is, or the essential lack which inhabits and sustains any object, the ready-made makes it clear that it is playing with words in a provocative way that one can go beyond the deciphering of the primordial signifiers without, however, "fattening the symptoms with meanings".

Keywords : Psychanalyse; Interpretation; Symptom; Ready-made.

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