Heresy and the One: Introduction to Contemporary Heretic

Welcome to Contemporary Heretic!

Readers of Jacques Lacan will recognise in “heretic” a term he highlighted in his late teaching. He attributed it to Joyce, a heretic who did not draw on the symbolic guarantee of the Name-of-the-Father. Today, and by implication, the heretic names everyone who is mad, which is to say delusional, in accordance with Lacan’s aphorism, which is every speaking being and marks each subject’s singularity.