Jacques LACAN

Oedipus Philosopher

When I met the author of Oedipus Philosopher (J.J.Goux), he told to me of his interest for the Amarnian Art. He did not tell me however, if it was a side-issue of his look on Greece. This would have been symetrical with Egyptologist Osman's interest for Greek Theater [].
It was the birth of geometrical and optical perspectives in Amarna which fascinated J.G - their focus point toward the cipher, aka zero, which we know today as the Name of the Father [] thanks to Lacan. We also understand that it was unknown by Plato (and/or his fellows) .

The fact that Lacan gave a name to the zero does not mean that he deciphered its combination with the Code (logic of code) - to the contrary, his Linguistics (logic of Significand) may have turned into an attachement which hampered his extension towards Environmentalism. It may have thus obviated the ecological result of a Science of the Code (genetics). Such a failure deserves a word :

Lacan was Freudian as much as Tycho was Copernician. The many similarities between Lacan's perspectives and Tycho's are important enough for the history of thinking [], and the way he denied this resemblance was expressive. In one of his Seminars he confessed his feeling of being persecuted when two of his disciples made the comparison of his linguistic system with Tycho's cosmology (in their book titled in French: Le Titre de la Lettre). Lacan became hysterical on this occasion, as much as he did elsewhere when he swore: "the sperm of the name of God,"about the relation between Moses and Oedipus [].

A direct way to depict his conjunction in history of thinking, is to say that Lacan was a Psychoanalyst as much as Oedipus was a Monotheist.
In order to untangle this riddle in relation with the involved set of figures, characters and models, it is indicated to begin with a study [] regarding the Zoraster (Zarathushtra) that the philosopher sees as a Monotheist Reconstructor.

Lacan's position may be seen within the Primal Scene phenomenology whose hypothesis I develop in the HermesTrismegistus=Akhnaton+Moses+Orpheus/Oedipus.thesis. According to this hypothesis, HAMOO would represent the historical expression of the Classical Western Heroic Initiation []. What is called the EXODUS would be THE INITIATIQUE JOURNEY :

Based on a political plan, an artificial monotheism

would have make the first step in a process - of enthroning a young king, Akhnaton, to carry the promotion of a unifying state religion (Egypt had realized that it was time for an expansion which would assemble the many tribes of the African-Eurasian isthmus, and control their threatening development).

The young fellow, who hapened to be zealous, got caught in this setting. He favored enthusiastically the most advanced option of the plan, which was to build a new Capital (Amarna). This move presented a backlash : it was giving an opportunity for the Conservatives to strenghten their resistance in Thebes - but it was also an act of independance which would personaly lead him to the threshold of the Initiation.

The foundation of this scenario is detailled in
a page which presents R.D. Morningstar contribution
in icluding Akhnaton's Amarna in the Exodus,
while I am showing thereby
the psychological structure of its phenomenology.

After a bright period, economical and military difficulties offered Akhnaton to return and seek help in the perverted spirituality that the Thebeans (Amon) advocated. He could have become a leader (as mentioned in Moses story), but his Amarnian experience had already advanced him to the point where he chose a strategy that would later prove to process the "Heroic Initiation".
He decided to move toward the Sinai, a better place for a conference (instead of a colonialization plan) where he could gather and assimilate the data of his plural kingdom, and synthetize a unifying Code for his heterogeneous people. He went there with his advisors and scholars, to meet with his vassal representatives of the Isthmus.

During his absence, Amonism infiltrated Amarna (the legend says; "Satan made believe that Moses would never come back, and convinced them to resume the worship of the Golden Calf"). When Akhnaton came back to his Capital with the 'Law', it was just to realize that he was practically overthroned and, with the idea of his ruined plan, he 'broke the Tables' and, this time, departed forever. He had to leave for the sake of his life and went again to the Sinai which was prepeared to welcome him. However, even there, he would have been threatenend again after a while - and moreover, he was in fact at the brink of what the Initiation refers to :

As nothing, no King, no Master, no School, but his own unique experience could now feed back, through the Code, the Naming [] he had processed, the experience of sole relation with the divinity established him as the prophet called Moses (during his second sojourn, Moses remains at distance of Bnai Yisrael).
At that point, this is the substance of the Initiation, that a man can reject, (as depicted in atheist and proto-ecological Freud's scenario, where Moses is killed so that no Initiation can be effective).
In the case of Moses, the Initiation was taken and expressed when the second version of the Tables was delivered, according to the Hebrew legend. Meanwhile, Akhnaton had to fulfill his entire original assignment (implementation of Science with Moral, to allow Ethics, aka Ecology ), that was to implement his Word on the land that Amarna was representing and which included the Aegean/Hittite area. At that stage, after the Initiation and the given Tables, he was to leave the Hebrews, who would then protect his deployment under the secret kept by the rabbis (Ancient Alliance ), (from that moment, Moses' face must be veiled to Bnai Yisrael until he disapears without leaving trace, so he escaped Sethan/Seti who was chasing him).

After this Initiation, the wanderer Initiate entered a new phase [where we find the Lacanian model]. Since the Initiation was not annuled, but was a fact, an option still subsisted : either to disown it for the resistance, or to carry it through for it success.
The first option is that of Oedipus Philosopher, who acknowledges an Initiation, just enough to delare that it had failed. This has made the psychopathology of the 2nd Psychoanalyst, who was nevertheless showing a progress on Freud's primary negation.
The second option must be seen from our present days and possible future, insofar the requisited element of this success is released, e.g. the restoration of the memory and the public knowledge of the historical Heroic Initiation (identification of Akhnaton-Moses-Orpheus/Oedipus and/or the Primal Scene).

Let's consider, from this example, the three issues of an Inititation:

Freud's option is the most simple and radical. It consists of denying it. Freud says: the initiation did not take place, or was thwarted. He says: Moses has been killed, and he refuses to consider an Historical Oedipus. If the Initiation in fact took place, this option leaves the opportunity of a dream. The repressed event with its outcome appears inversed, as a negative film which shows in this case the murder-of-the-father fantasm (instead of the immortalization that the initiation reveals - re:below).The Initiation is frozen at its early stage, with a conviction of an actual incest (it is also - like Copernicus sleeping on a flat Earth, Freud's awareness, sleeping and dreaming in an Ecosystem that he consumes).

Lacan's option is more complex, he does not disregard Oedipus and he understands that the incest is a metaphor of the Collective. In doing so, the Initiation is acknowledged; it cannot be denied but may be disowned. This is Oedipus philosopher who has not yet integrated the Code (genetics) beyond the social metaphor; he cannot come around the failure of the Initiation - and therefore he extends the murder-of-the-father to his own person. This has been typical in Lacan's blunder.
When he reaches the question of Oedipus' death, in a public Seminar, Lacan proved the most untrue teaching regarding Oedipus. He declared that Oedipus death had been reported to being or representing the horror of a putrefaction - which is exactly the opposite in Sophocles text he referred to (since Theseus report a miracle without agony). Lacan was depicting there how he was thinking about his own death.

The Success Option may not be seen without continuing the reading of the historical Western Heroic Initiation. Keeping in mind that a successfull Initiation can only be with the collective acknowledgement of its success, history does not show is at first in Akhnaton's case.
First, an Akhnaton-Moses is simply denied by the rabbi Ministry. Then, when the Akhnaton-Moses-Oedipus episode closes its circle with Socrates, the Alexandrian and Ptolomean period reactualized Akhnaton's entire Empire and (re)built Hermopolis Magna on Amarna's site (contemporary Assiout). During several centuries the philosopher failure (Socrates) is indeed represented (while the Truth has rallied the Secret as practiced in Egypt land).
However, when this status is terminated by the emergent Roman Empire, suddenly, in Israel, the figure of Jesus appears, who displays an Initiation concluding with a resurrection. Inasmuch it is acknowledged by a community (Christianity) - which consequently gives the verdict of a successful initiation - it is contersigned by the co-emergent Hermes Trismegistus, the being who underwent successfully the Western Heroic Initiation.
This may implies the logic of the success of the initiation. The rest will be shown by our future - now that the scientific data gives an opportunity for the community to identify the Triple Hermes (Trismegistus) as Akhnaton-Moses-Oedipus the option to believe in this interpretation of history may be necessary, followed by the realization of what this success means :
From a first sight, it means escaping death. After birth/anti-incest and durability/father-naming, a intringuing operation takes place, which appears to refer the logic of Code. It may be the Civil Code but also the biologic dimension of Genetics.
Genetics is startling and dazzling for us. Clones and redefinition of the ego may change notably our grasp of consciousness as well as transform our idea of mortality.

Trismegistus 'Alchemy was perhaps valid, and in spite of the Inquisition, our technology may be its infant. akhnaton.net and dnafoundation.com web sites show intensively the closeness beween genetics and psychoanalysis, if the later is the Unconscious representation of the Hermetic Art of Memory.

This may lead to close with Lacan's page on a anecdote, which came to me, about the pathology that his repression was showing; when arguing to be quite zen he was customarily slapping his disciples. When Lydia Torasi, coming from Tunis, visited him without knowing the new vogue, she suggested that she could clone (photocopy) her writing before giving them - this is how I interpret the smack he answered .
Lydia's production has eventually come to the present site and exposes how the DNA can take the place of the Letter . In such case, we must face that Genetics empowerment means overcoming death. This would be the success of the scientist upon the failure of the philosopher.

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