LACAN, KANT, AND SADE:
RUTH SAMPLE,
Ini essay Kant with Sade Jacques Lacan considers a carmon thread
running through the work of Iman! Ken and te Marquis de Sade, Both,
te suggests, put forth solution toa certain psychological problem, &
problem which Lacan takes to be characteristic cf human life, He does not
re that either wrote withthe problem a modo ht eter regarded the
roblem es especially characte cof human le Nonetheles, the writing
ofeach provided an answer, and each anowersiately fis solve the
problem, highlighting is insctable nae
ere Ishall yt make clear he protiem whic Lacan findh addressed by
both tn addition shall provide an explanation af what there might be is
Kan and Sade that has the maings ofa solu, and why those solutions
{ai Fay 1 sll very Briefly defend Sade apn he charge of fur
“The one feature of his view insufficiently emphasized by Lacen is his
irons, which reveals Sad'sundersanding that no slain is possible ~
reves the one be endores.
proaches of Lactn and Freud converge i their
coat of the problematic nate of human existence and is relation vo the
‘evelopment ofthe mind, Bot empbasie i an extrsctinary degree the
limporance of ou dependence upon the extra Ni, and he Foe ta this