Abstract

Taking a cue from a text by Baltasar Gracián, this essay reconstructs a chapter in the “genealogy of the doctrine of truth” (Badiou) by inquiring into the relationship of truth and vocation in Lacan and Badiou. Read in terms of the specific truth of a vocation, the figure of the analyst in Lacan and that of the militant in Badiou are not so far apart. Truth breaks down the totality of knowledge in different ways for each author, and a corresponding distribution of shame underwrites the rare subjectivity of the analyst or militant as structure, not just as will or fidelity.

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