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Kant with Sade is an essay by Jacques Lacan in which the author examines a link between the works of Immanuel Kant and Marquis de Sade. The original ( French : Kant avec Sade ) was published in the journal Critique in April 1963.
Zizek argues that Sade is a closet Kantian who externalizes the voice of conscience, while Kant is a closet Sadean who privileges pain as the only a priori sentiment. He explores the paradoxical link between ethics and desire, and the role of the superego in both philosophers.
One rediscovers what founds Kant's expression of the regret that, in the experience of the moral law, no intuition offers a phenomenal object. We would agree that, throughout the Critique, this object slips away.
JACQUES LACAN: KANT WITH SADE. Translated by James B. Swenson Jr. This text should have served as a preface to Philosophy in the Bedroom. It appeared in the journal Critique (no. 191, April 1963) as a review of the edition of the works of Sade for which it was destined.*
“Dany Nobus has met the challenge—how to make Lacan’s most opaque essay, the notorious “Kant with Sade,” transparent—and has succeeded. This alert and lucid book gives all its due to one of Lacan’s most ignored “writings,” his systematic confrontation of Kant’s and Sade’s philosophies.
- Dany Nobus
In his 1963 essay "Kant with Sade," Jacques Lacan pairs two unlikely figures of Enlightenment ethics, conjoining without comparing them through the preposition "with."
Focusing on the first section of Lacan’s essay ‘Kant with Sade’, Nobus explains why Lacan refuses to interpret Sade’s libertine novels as a literary anticipation of Freudian psychoanalysis ...
