Two asymmetric positions

Lacan’s teaching as it was transmitted to us by Charles Melman is precious in the current stormy times: it provides instructions on the load of our condition.

Let’s take inequalities, for example. Of course, these need to be defeated, the new social order doesn’t seem to have made them go away. Quite the opposite! But, in any case, inequality will always be waiting, it is not allocated by anyone, not even by the patriarchy, although this one is far from having had the gracefulness to not abuse a certain position in the asymmetry.

Inequality is the consequence of two positions originated in the act of speech: one is of the listener and the other is of the speaker. In appearance, the latter has the advantage, however, the former also has it, a different one, its acquiescence is required, and it is with this constant asymmetry that we need to deal with.  

To take account of this reality inherent to all speaking beings can be helpful to understand that the rulers and the ruled occupy different positions and by aspiring to make them symmetric we expose ourselves to more than one disappointment, of which the imaginary confrontation and the violence that ensues are only the most tangible effects.