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Payne/Holm Rematch
Andy Payne’s “Afterword” is longer than the standard wrap-up, but it critically reviews the collection in light of contemporary currents in critical thinking. Lorens Holm was inspired by specific passages in the text, to the point of finding them more of a foreword than an afterword. Payne responded to Holm’s cause for attention to the issue of sexuation: “[I see my work as not a] ‘capitulation to organicism,’ but rather as the index of a dialectical rigor in whose absence we lose what is essential to Lacan’s psychoanalytic inflection of the theory of ‘structure,’ to wit: the drive and its object. This loss would in turn spell the demise of the very process of sexuation in the human animal, since the phallic function that governs human sexuation is propped up on this object of the drive. Put differently, without those holes, you end up with Badiou, who famously eschews the problem of the drive; who believes that the mereological antinomies of set theory can be resolved via stratification; and who would much rather talk about love than sexuation.”