Abstract

ALEXANDRE, Lévy  and  DAVID, Bernard. Logic of submission and commandment: from S. milgram experiment to the slogan power. Psicol. clin. [online]. 2018, vol.30, n.1, pp. 61-80. ISSN 0103-5665.  http://dx.doi.org/10.33208/PC1980-5438v0030n01A03.

We propose a psychoanalytic reading of the Stanley Milgram experiment to underline the functions of submission and obedience, and consequential conditions for establishing a logic of commandment. Refering to the Lacanian concepts, relations between the signifier and the jouissance are developed, jointly arranged in an updated scene of the fantasy, guiding subjectivity into reality: it is around these notions that we can unfold the links of a subject and its division to the various figures personifying the Other, a great Other who is supposed to assume responsibility to fill the hole in the guarantee of the world. So in order to get rid of the pangs of his division and malaise, the subject can easily request the consistency of this Other. The effects of subjectivity oriented by such a cause can probably be presented in various ways in our modernity, which is specified by a social link where reigns the "fetishism of merchandise": it's a capitalist discourse which promises jouissances related to a normative ideal of liberty. Nonetheless what "liberty" are we talking about as a subject?

Keywords : obedience; commandment; signifier; Other; Lacan.

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