Abstract:
This article aims to discuss two relationships, highlighted by Jacques Lacan in a 1974 press conference, between modern science, real and anxiety: (a) one, which refers to the laboratory work on bacteria; and (b) another, reliant on the former, which concerns the impact of gadgets. This second relation refers to the elaboration of the “alethosphere” and “lathouse” neologisms, to indicate the status of truth that is involved in the scientific “atmosphere” and objectivations. However, these original terms are not intended to discredit scientific advances, but to theoretically demonstrate that such advances also imply subjective consequences.
Keywords:
Lacan; science; psychoanalysis; “alethosphere”; “lathouses”