BIOPOLITICS: BETWEEN ABU GHRAIB AND TERRI SCHIAVO

NOW WE’VE FINALLY LEARNED what we suspected all along, that the numerous reports and testimonies about the Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib prisons merely distracted the public’s attention from the real secret, which has recently dominated news reports: The Independent in London, for example, described CIA-operated “secret detention facilities beyond the reach of the law and outside official oversight at bases in two eastern European countries,” while other reports mention similar facilities in several Asian countries. The CIA, of course, refuses to acknowledge the existence of these “black sites” and

print March 1993

THE SUBLIME THEORIST OF SLOVENIA

JACQUES LACAN IS RESPONSIBLE for saying, “there is no sexual relation.” This should not make lovers too upset, for in fact, Love is what we have to make up for the Relation that is missing. Eros would be the potential of supreme Good, for harmony uniting men and women, women and women, men and men. But why did Sigmund Freud have to ruin everything by saying, It is always possible to bond together in love, as long as someone is left out to hate? Lacan and Freud are pessimists, right? For Love is all-inclusive—at least it can’t depend on exclusion and hatred for its condition! Or else, with a yawn