Jacques lacan structuralism

In the Cahiers pour l’Analyse

Lacan returns to his claim about the foreclosive nature of science in ‘La Science et la vérité’ (CpA ). ‘Our science’s prodigious fecundity must be examined in relation to the fact, sustaining science, that science does-not-want-to-know-anything about the truth as cause. […] You may recognize therein my formulation of Verwerfung or “foreclosure”, which forms a closed series here with Verdrängung, “repression”, and Verneinung, “negation”’ (CpA ; E ). Lacan specifies that the ‘closure’ of science could be attributable to its maintenance of a ‘successful paranoia’. Lacan is ambivalent about the effects of scientific foreclosure. On the one hand, he suggests that psychoanalysis should bring science’s foreclosive rejection of the Name of the Father to light and subject it to analysis; on the other hand, he also suggests that the pattern of foreclosure is conducive to scientific progress. ‘If one acknowledges that psychoanalysis is essentially what Jacques lacan mirror stage.