‘Who’s your Daddy?’ A question of sovereignty and the use of psychoanalysis

Authors

J. Rogers, University of Melbourne

Abstract

The love of the law is flighty. Indeed, it represents itself as ‘without desire’. It is a love imagined emanating from a sovereign that does, and has, and may again, exercise its whimsical decision and render the subject, as Giorgio Agamben (1998) has described abandoned and as Jacques Lacan has offered: castrated. Consequently this love is experienced, on some level, as precarious. It is a love that can be withdrawn, or directed to an-other, at any time. What evokes the law’s desire is neither obvious nor apparent. It is hidden from the ordinary subject.

Recommended Citation

Rogers, J., ‘Who’s your Daddy?’ A question of sovereignty and the use of psychoanalysis, Law Text Culture, 11, 2007.
Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/ltc/vol11/iss1/7