La castración sin traductor

la crisis de la función paterna y los impases del sujeto masculino contemporáneo

Resumen

This article proposes a rereading of the so-called crisis of the paternal function based on the following hypothesis: what declines in contemporary culture is not castration, but its regime of translation. The father — as logical exception and as metaphor — was never the agent of the limit, but rather the operator that made it legible, converting it into phallic signification, debt and filiation. Rereading the paternal metaphor (Lacan), the Freudian myth of the father and the Kafkaesque law that Agamben described as being in force without significance, the paper argues that the contemporary male subject encounters castration in a raw state, without the mediation that once converted it into desire, and responds to this encounter through the paths regularly heard in the clinic: diffuse insufficiency, inhibition, solitary jouissance and fatherhood without a place. In dialogue with André, Alizade and Eizirik, it concludes that the direction of the treatment does not aim to restore the lost translator, but to sustain the subject in constructing, one by one, his own ways of signifying lack.