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202 PSYCHOLOGYAND PSYCHIATRY UDC 159.964.21 Yurii Hurskyi Master of Psychology Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv, Ukraine AGAINST OR AMONG MEILLASSOUX: SPECULATIVE REALISM FROM THE LACANIAN PERSPECTIVE Abstract. The article, from the standpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis, problematizes Q. Meillassoux’s philosophy of speculative realism. It substantiates the dependence of the principal inferences of speculative realism on subjective structures of desire, which are treated as an authentic form of correlationism that refutes itself in an anticorrelational sublimatory articulation. Keywords: contingency, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Meillassoux, Object- Oriented Ontology, Speculative Realism. Below, I will present a series of critical theses concerning the contemporary philosophy of speculative realism. For the sake of referential convenience, they will be numbered. 1. The speculative-realist solution proposed by Q. Meillassoux constitutes a form of ethical disagreement. I employ the logical predication of being and state that something ―is‖, ―to be‖ (that is, I endow the relation between two concepts in discourse with phenomenal substantiality) exclusively on the basis of that which