…not simply... a historical sign of alienation and so on, it is something that pertains to our very symbolic order. When, as Lacan says, when you speak, you in some sense already believe. And I think that's how all radical theologians read, say, Read the…

…is not just to say we are all mortal, we will die, but to assert not that there really are ghosts, but as Lacan says so wonderfully, Big subjects already entails a symbolic death in the sense that you maintain a distance from your immediate animal…

…already entails a symbolic death in the sense that you maintain a distance from your immediate animal awareness and so on. So as Lacan puts it when he speaks about the second death, This second death is our normal life. In some sense, being a human…

…you know, or people say, all this manipulative, no, more than ever today, those in power are straight of truth. The lesson of Lacan is not we cannot ever be sure if we reached the truth. The lesson of psychoanalysis, end of Hegel, is the opposite one.…

…have time to go into this, that's my feminism, that's why Women, as hysterical, are the mouth of truth. Because you know what's, for Lacan, a woman's hysterical question? You say what I am. I am your mother, a whore, a lady, a woman. But why are you…

…should be moderating this. We're glad to have you, Brother Russell. We are blessed to have you working on Melville and Lacan. Melville, the greatest literary artist in the history of the American empire, coming to terms with the empire and white supremacy…

…soliciting others to assert their particular identity. White multiculturalist liberals embody the lie of identity politics. Next point. Jacques Lacan wrote something paradoxical but deeply true, that even if what a jealous husband claims about his wife, that…

…just modes of jouissance, of enjoyment, and the only relation within them are Can I jump in quickly? Yeah. Do you think that Lacan himself, in a way, paves the way for this when he himself moves from paternal metaphor to santon? Like, isn't a santon?…

…misstep? Retroactively. Now, it wasn't clear to me, but retroactively now, I tend to agree with you, Todd. Because I think that... Lacan in the last years was experimenting all the time okay I'll put it like this this is my classical position seminar 20…

…do often. I usually literally work or whatever, but clearly just as a pretext to deploy certain categories. And even here, Lacan oscillates, you know how to confirm you. You mentioned when we were in conversation before going public, this paradox of Miller,…

…so on. And isn't it also... Sorry, just to return. So I think all this... after Seminar 2021-22, all these later attempts of Lacan are, for me, attempts to resolve a certain deadlock, which, as Lacan openly admitted at the very end, it's a tragic text,…

…all this... after Seminar 2021-22, all these later attempts of Lacan are, for me, attempts to resolve a certain deadlock, which, as Lacan openly admitted at the very end, it's a tragic text, you know. His last seminar is like, he came there, 500 people…

…of a failure. So you know why this is important? I've written, I forgot where, about this, how wrong, not only of Lacan, but of other thinkers, this idea is that they were approaching some final point where they finally saw the light. That's it.…

…Millet, not that group sex lady, but Catherine Millot, Lacan's last official mistress. You know that I remember I was there. After Lacan died, her status was elevated into a kind of a mystical level, he knows the truth, because the idea was a wonderful…

…a mystical level, he knows the truth, because the idea was a wonderful myth. I also almost liked it. The idea was that when Lacan was dying, he was with him, and he whispered to her some final theoretical mystery. And I am more and more opposed to…

…now I will say something terribly naive, but I think it's basically true. I think that there is an unresolved problem with Lacan. The four discourses are they just a totally ahistorical matrix, valuable for all times, blah, blah, blah, or is there a…

…everyday politics. capitalist hysteria, always more surplus, surplus. University is the power structure described by Foucault and so on. And Lacan somehow saw this tension in capitalism. You have this incessant surplus. At the same time, you have the logic of…

…this incessant surplus. At the same time, you have the logic of university style of domination. And then at a certain point, Lacan saw that he cannot simply squeeze what you, Todd, pointed out correctly, the entire topic of surplus enjoyment and so on, he…

…a structure of surplus desire which is all the time here comes out at such only with capitalism so In some sense, Lacan ended here at the deadlock, which is why also people don't notice this, how Lacan oscillates also between different political positions.…

…capitalism so In some sense, Lacan ended here at the deadlock, which is why also people don't notice this, how Lacan oscillates also between different political positions. Sometimes he sounds like a liberal. That was then Miller's reading. Tolerate others'…

…riot, and so on and so on. So this kind of conservative cynicism with some hints about possible post-capitalist modes, but there Lacan again then has this tendency to offer a solution which I don't think it works. Like, remember his mysterious hints that…

…gesture, I hope we all agree here, to be really a Lacanian today, is not to search for a last secret mystery in late Lacan, because these readers now will be really evil. Who is this irony in this, of course? One of the greatest writers today, much…

…mystery, hidden manuscript. So I would accuse Miller and all those guys like kind of making another Da Vinci code out of Lacan, you know? Yeah. Please, now, you, we totally overshadowed you. Nonetheless, please, go on. It's related to what we were talking…

…totally overshadowed you. Nonetheless, please, go on. It's related to what we were talking about, because we're talking about the later Lacan seminars, and maybe we can go back to politics and jouissance later, because I think that today, it's been this way…

…Yeah. Yeah, but the way in which, and I think that this is true more of a certain type of clinical or clinician approach to Lacan, that where the text itself is treated as sort of a sacred font of wisdom, and I just was thinking about Seminar 20 and…

…text itself is treated as sort of a sacred font of wisdom, and I just was thinking about Seminar 20 and directions in which Lacan went, and now I'm thinking about sex and gender and the, you know, the formulas of sexuation in, in seminar 20 and how…

…in her book, what is sex kind of rescue? I guess my, I guess the question is to what degree is, is this already in Lacan or to what degree are, is like, you know, you, the Lubiana school, more general teasing this out where sex is according to your,…

…masculine subject position? Masculinity as such is a fake. The pure subject position is femininity. And so I'm wondering, to go back to how Lacan treats that in 20, do we have to update Lacan in order to sort of save it from a sort of essentialism with…

…The pure subject position is femininity. And so I'm wondering, to go back to how Lacan treats that in 20, do we have to update Lacan in order to sort of save it from a sort of essentialism with regard to gender or sex? Or is that the only proper way…

…order to sort of save it from a sort of essentialism with regard to gender or sex? Or is that the only proper way to read Lacan? It's like, it's there. We have to read him this way. Before you answer, can I read it? I just want to add to the…

…better than mine. But he said to me, he said that he thought that, you know, he he wrote a book on Le Patou de Lacan. So he's very invested in seminars. Right. But he thinks that by making it, by tying the formulas to sexuation, that Lacan in a way…

…Patou de Lacan. So he's very invested in seminars. Right. But he thinks that by making it, by tying the formulas to sexuation, that Lacan in a way falls for, you know, that line by Ernest Jones, God did make them man and woman, that he thinks that by,…

…mysticism and... Now you touched something absolutely crucial. Okay. I didn't succeed in convincing many people but I thought there in Lacan you may know this the big conflict between my reading of formulas of sexuation and the predominant one is that the…

…that's right. I mean, it's the worst kind of anti-feminism. And I would also say, the only thing I would say is, I think Lacan himself is ambiguous about this, right? That's my point. He, on the one hand, he insists that this art, he insists that the…

…from within by universalizing it. Universalizing in the sense of precisely no exception, but I agree with you, Todd, at some point Lacan already, as if, I think he didn't think things to the end. You already have this mystical tendency of, you know, But…

…have this mystical tendency of, you know, But remember that this was, and I think it's theoretically a fake, a tendency in Lacan, even from his early days, and here I don't like Lacan who celebrates his standing up against philosophy, like I stand up…

…and I think it's theoretically a fake, a tendency in Lacan, even from his early days, and here I don't like Lacan who celebrates his standing up against philosophy, like I stand up against philosophy. Don't you remember, it's usually not often commented,…

…some mystical point of reference which we cannot even approach it, but it's there. You have a couple of references like this in Lacan. Like at some other point, Is it in Angkor or somewhere else? Lacan even says that mystical texts are the best that…

…there. You have a couple of references like this in Lacan. Like at some other point, Is it in Angkor or somewhere else? Lacan even says that mystical texts are the best that there is. Yeah, that's similar. In his arrogant way, he says, but and also…

…that mystical texts are the best that there is. Yeah, that's similar. In his arrogant way, he says, but and also agree the Lacan. Without this, I think, again, this way, of how he wants to get over philosophy that you know we philosophers want to…

…know we philosophers want to conceptualize everything but there is some mystical elusive point and so on again this is the worst of Lacan you know also in what sense did you notice how Lacan often I'm tempted but I'm getting old and senile I will have…

…is some mystical elusive point and so on again this is the worst of Lacan you know also in what sense did you notice how Lacan often I'm tempted but I'm getting old and senile I will have to go through it I noticed how Lacan often is not Lacanian…

…did you notice how Lacan often I'm tempted but I'm getting old and senile I will have to go through it I noticed how Lacan often is not Lacanian enough. He gives an example, but then he fails to draw the ultimate Lacanian conclusion from it. I think…

…the Lacanian dimension of it. And if I may amuse our readers and you, Brittany, you know, when I first noticed this failures of Lacan already which is the seminar is it four I think formations of the earth where he talks a lot about jokes five about…

…know, I don't know, he's ugly, oh, at least you will not have to worry that she will deceive you, blah, blah, blah. And Lacan then writes, I couldn't believe, I was like Tom or Jerry in the cartoon when they see something, the eyes jump out. I…

…believe, I was like Tom or Jerry in the cartoon when they see something, the eyes jump out. I couldn't believe it that Lacan just says, oh, and so on indefinitely. No, it's not indefinitely. Right. The whole point of a joke is that at a certain…

…cannot explain away. And then he says, what do you want her to be perfect? And I was just shocked that literally, again, Lacan doesn't get the Lacanian point of the story. So that's why I look at Lacan As an author who is much more inconsistent,…

…And I was just shocked that literally, again, Lacan doesn't get the Lacanian point of the story. So that's why I look at Lacan As an author who is much more inconsistent, trying new possibilities, it's also what I try to develop. I forgot in which of…

…much more inconsistent, trying new possibilities, it's also what I try to develop. I forgot in which of my books, how the game Lacan plays with his seminars and agree, as he emphasizes. This is what I like in Lacan. In seminars, he is not teaching. He…

…which of my books, how the game Lacan plays with his seminars and agree, as he emphasizes. This is what I like in Lacan. In seminars, he is not teaching. He is himself analysand. He is improvising its theoretical three associations. In ECRI, he is then…

…an analyst giving formulas, but... And that's his whole game. These formulas, Miller wants... decades ago explained this nicely to us. Lacan gives these formulas with the hope that we, his careful readers, will discern the meaning of these formulas. But he…

…himself doesn't know. Yes, that's crucial. His agrees are not No, literally, we have to work out the meaning. And again, Lacan doesn't know. This is absolutely crucial. I think Lacan very nicely, in this very duality of seminars and écrit, undermines the…

…are not No, literally, we have to work out the meaning. And again, Lacan doesn't know. This is absolutely crucial. I think Lacan very nicely, in this very duality of seminars and écrit, undermines the temptation, which is great in him, to play very…

…know. And then there's this Hegelian other side where he's being a dialectical. And we see this at its purest with how Lacan deals with femininity. Yes. You have the Kantian notion, femininity is the thing, the thing in itself. And it's the Hegelian…

…were thinking for some strategic discourse. No, he deceived us by telling the truth all the time. And again, this is for Lacan, lying in the guise of truth. It's exactly, it's the ultimate, it's the ultimate symbolic strategy. The last one, then I will…

…now and what went on already with American weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. It's more an example of what already the early Lacan defines as a symbolic communication, where you get from the other your own message in its inverted, that is to say, true…

…what it is, I mean, is it... I'm almost tempted to say like it's kind of related to the sort of mystical moments in Lacan. But, you know, you wrote a piece about five or six months ago. I know Alenka has something on conspiracy theories too, but it's…

…a couple of analysand and analyst can operate the way it does, contravening the standard form of intersubjective exchange. For Lacan, the dyad, analyst-analysand, is not just an artificial exception. but an exception to or a distortion of normal communication,…

…provides de facto a kind of transcendental frame to our access to reality. What eludes it cannot be conceptualized. in Lacan as another reality, but can only appear as a limit phenomenon, an elusive virtual point of reference, ultimately defined only…

…as the unconscious is one of the names of the real, also, quote, from Tupinamba, in the last instance, the reason why for Lacan, the unconscious must be conceived as an ethical instance and not as a psychoanalytic concept, end of quote. But I see this…

…in the domain of neither being nor not being. Now we reach the next central motive of Tupinamba's critique of Lacan, his critical reading of Lacan's formulas of sexuation. To somehow simplify the line of argumentation, Tupinamba qualifies fallicism, the…

…totalization of a finite set, which generates what it excludes as a non-existing virtual access that escapes language. And although Lacan deploys the feminine side of the formulas as escaping this logic of enclosure, he ultimately still conceives the feminine…

…it is in itself and not just as something in excess of the phallic function. To see this, one should only read Lacan closely and literally. Femininity is defined. That's the paradox on which I insist almost everybody disagrees here with me. Femininity is…

…difference between the two reals, the real of the impossible thing and the indifferent external reality, is fundamental for Lacan. The source of metaphysical mystification resides precisely in the confusion between the two, in the identification of the…

…a mystery when it gets caught in the deadlocks of our libidinal economy. Or to evoke again the anecdote often quoted by Lacan about Zeuxis and Parasius, the two painters from ancient Greece who compete to determine who can paint a more convincing illusion.…

…what I claim is that, that's my basic argument where I would love to get Gabriel's answer. What I claim is that When Lacan speaks about this real as the constitutive antagonism, which has no real existence but is just an imminent limit and so on, this…

…This is fear of symbolic antagonisms and so on, which has nothing to do with the problem of so-called external reality. The real for Lacan is not the way things really are. I would even have said, and I did in some of my books, the real for Lacan…

…Lacan is not the way things really are. I would even have said, and I did in some of my books, the real for Lacan is precisely the force which... The real is the force, the pressure which makes us to violate, distort the way things really are. When…

…Absolute, Incontinence of the Void, Absolute Recall, Coil, Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism, The Most Sublime, Hysteric, Hegel with Lacan. less than nothing, living in end times. A sense of end times, which I think was the first book that…

…That's another question, because you know that some people, like Milner, even think, but they're not ready to follow that. that Lacan was too much under influence of Coare, this idea that modern science is mathematics, and also too much, then the later…

…you know, or with this Jungian anthropologist, male principle versus the feminine. Hegelian contradiction is absolutely not this. That's why when Lacan says there is no sexual relationship, he doesn't mean men are from, I like to turn it around, men are,…

…is feminine, it's anarchist and so on. I find this solution too simple, but on the other hand, it does touch something. Does Lacan, I don't remember, have a theory of clitoris? I don't think so. I don't remember ever him. I know in biology, there is…

…and so on and I don't have time to go into it now but exactly the same goes I think for Freud and Lacan Lacan intervenes brutally from the outside his theoretical reference from the point from which Lacan intervenes into Hegel is precisely a different…

…so on and I don't have time to go into it now but exactly the same goes I think for Freud and Lacan Lacan intervenes brutally from the outside his theoretical reference from the point from which Lacan intervenes into Hegel is precisely a different one…

…same goes I think for Freud and Lacan Lacan intervenes brutally from the outside his theoretical reference from the point from which Lacan intervenes into Hegel is precisely a different one it is of structural linguistics and so on and so on so a couple…

…my question is kind of related. It's about dualism. And it's also sort of to Slavoj about sort of if Hegel and Lacan come together and Lacan builds his theory from structuralism, sort of Levi-Strauss and Jakobson. I'm wondering how we should think about…

…of related. It's about dualism. And it's also sort of to Slavoj about sort of if Hegel and Lacan come together and Lacan builds his theory from structuralism, sort of Levi-Strauss and Jakobson. I'm wondering how we should think about formalism in the sense…

…Jordan Peterson. And so my sense is that, for the most part, you work within the communist tradition in addition to Hegel and Lacan, but yet sometimes it seems like your position is that Every part of the 20th century experience has to be erased, has to…

…soliciting others to assert their particular identity. White multiculturalist liberals embody the lie of identity politics. Next point. Jacques Lacan wrote something paradoxical but deeply true. That even if what a jealous husband claims about his wife, that…

…on. And isn't this more than true today? Which is why, as I emphasize again and again in the last years, As Jacques Lacan, my psychoanalytic mentor, emphasized it also all the time. Dostoevsky was totally wrong when he said, if there is no God, then…

…that, for instance, Spinoza says, well, you have to explain the scriptures by the scriptures, or Jacques-Alain Miller says that Lacan must be explained by Lacan. Well, the French Revolution must be explained by the French Revolution itself. As all political…

…well, you have to explain the scriptures by the scriptures, or Jacques-Alain Miller says that Lacan must be explained by Lacan. Well, the French Revolution must be explained by the French Revolution itself. As all political events should be explained, in…

…think you have it in the book. A wonderful distinction which has... If you know history of theory, great echoes from Lacan to Hegel, I think you do draw it. The distinction between revolutionary ideal and ideal revolution. It's strictly parallel, for…

…to Hegel, I think you do draw it. The distinction between revolutionary ideal and ideal revolution. It's strictly parallel, for example, to in Lacan, ideal du moi and moi ideal. And this reflexive term, I don't have time to go now, has in Hegel you find…

…this one. I would emphasize at the same time another point which I developed already many times. Nonetheless, in terms of Lacan, Was not Stalinism in a way university discourse at its purest? Stalin always presented himself as instrument of the people,…

…totalitarian state, prohibit Twitter, prohibit Facebook. That would be my rule. Sorry, sorry. That's my small idea. I'm sorry. Again, Lacan, long before Twitter, said that he refused to give his teaching in bite-sized pieces. It's almost like he predicted…

…with an homage to you. Always, always, always. With an homage to you. You know Lacanian definition of the real, at least in early Lacan. What always return to the same place. So you are our real, so you will have to come back here again. Thank you.

…the book, I will not talk about this, but just briefly about what preoccupies me. Okay, what really preoccupies me is Hegel, Lacan, ideology, and so on. And I'm even very conservative here. People always dismiss me as some kind of crazy postmodernist. No,…

…should be doing. Now, for example, in The Courage of Hopelessness, as in much of your other work, there are frequent references to Lacan And I want to know, I want to understand a little better. I mean, for example, should everybody here, I mean, I…

…a little better. I mean, for example, should everybody here, I mean, I assume everybody here is deeply familiar with Lacan, right? Just as you're deeply familiar with Hegel's phenomenology of spirit. That's not enough for me. There's a slight uneasiness…

…was to vary the length of analytic sessions? In order that he could make more cash, presumably. I was spreading stories about Lacan and we can go on here. I love them. No, but seriously, Slavoj, should these people really understand Lacan to this very,…

…spreading stories about Lacan and we can go on here. I love them. No, but seriously, Slavoj, should these people really understand Lacan to this very, very high level? Okay, I mean, if you... I mean, in order that they're... actual thinking about the…

…we're in should be informed by Lacanian ideas. I will give you a precise answer. Of course, who has time to read all of Lacan and so on? So what, we just look at you to produce your philosophical grab bag and dazzle us with this stuff? Let's be…

…book by Marx and so on. Stalin didn't read anything, so don't be afraid. What I want to say, to be very precise, why Lacan? I think that we are witnessing today many paradoxes in our love lives even. For example, it's a beautiful paradox that with all…

…because we're meant to go away and learn, learn, learn, I want to understand how I am to fit your favorite theorists, Hegel, Lacan, Marx to some extent, Freud to some extent, how I am to fit them into my learning so that I'm going to understand…

…all popular revolutions began with the minority. Yeah, but is it going to begin with a minority of people who really know their Lacan? Is that where the revolution is going to begin? Well, it's not necessary like this. I never implied this. But why do…

…to begin? Well, it's not necessary like this. I never implied this. But why do we have this? You know, my reading of Lacan says this. Strange things are happening today in sexual morse here and there. The way people relate to authority and so on. Which…

…to authority and so on. Which theory can explain this? Why are you blaming me for this? I claim the best that I know is Lacan. Because I can strip out all of the references to Lacan. to Hegel, to Marx, and to Freud in your book, The Courage of…

…you blaming me for this? I claim the best that I know is Lacan. Because I can strip out all of the references to Lacan. to Hegel, to Marx, and to Freud in your book, The Courage of Hopelessness, and it reads as a series of declarative statements that…

…really start to take control at that point. That's right. It's not so necessary. And the people who have been sitting at home reading Lacan... are going to be slaughtered in their beds. No. No, no, no, no. You are wrong, Kir. I think that the danger is…

…exclude that? In the same way it happened in Spain and so on, when people will feel the pressure without reading too much Lacan. Some kind of radical, more reasonable movement of the left will arise. I don't exclude it. But one of the arguments against…

…subjectivity. It's all again, things go wrong, I can begin again. The father of this is Marquis de Sade. That's the mystery, Lacan saw it clearly, of the victim, Juliet. She is endlessly tortured, but all the time remains. And this is how our immersion…

…father. In order to properly develop this in psychoanalytic terms, one has to go to all this distinction between what Jacques Lacan calls the name of the father, paternal authority, and the obscene superego. Superego is not paternal authority. So again, this…

…of taking one minor sense of marginalized text and interrupting it with a major text, it takes two major forms of literature, Lacan and Deleuze, and presents us with what we're quite used to in 2016, actually, another double blackmail. I mean, to borrow…

…increasingly authoritarianly. So this is what Aaron presents us with as well, a double blackmail. Do we choose Deleuze or do we choose Lacan? And Aaron's fantastic achievement really is to enable us to have both. We have a cake and eat it. He's able to…

…enable us to have both. We have a cake and eat it. He's able to to read both of them and inform both of them, disrupt Lacan with Deleuze and Deleuze with Lacan. And it's a beautiful, I kind of recommend it in Aachen, as I say, you get it at a…

…have a cake and eat it. He's able to to read both of them and inform both of them, disrupt Lacan with Deleuze and Deleuze with Lacan. And it's a beautiful, I kind of recommend it in Aachen, as I say, you get it at a discount later on. But I'll let…

…idea of the self as an agent of pleasure. So philosophy is of self-creation. That's his return to the Greeks. And then Lacan will say, well, also I would downgrade pleasure, and I would prefer the term enjoyment. But there's something else at stake there…

…do it more and more. And in fact, I think the fundamental trait of pleasure, and this brings us within the sphere of what Lacan would call jouissance or enjoyment, it's not feeling good. So I think this is also kind of… This is part of the inheritance…

…ends up being about the pleasure of theory, we could say, in ancient philosophy. And I think it's not until psychoanalysis, until Lacan, that somebody actually takes up this idea in a serious manner. So Lacan will also say, for us, and this is in…

…philosophy. And I think it's not until psychoanalysis, until Lacan, that somebody actually takes up this idea in a serious manner. So Lacan will also say, for us, and this is in one of the later seminars, thought is jouissance. Thinking is pleasure. Except…

…actually those symbolic processes that are carrying pleasure. So that thought is pleasure. And I think that's very interesting that Lacan reaffirms this ancient Greek notion that it's really fallen somehow by the wayside. I'm not even sure how seriously the…

…characterize. So it's kind of the introduction, the preface of the book. It's a way into that problem, that difficult dialogue between Lacan and Deleuze. And I was quite interested, so I discovered this sort of early on, that in Deleuze's, you know, these…

…two good candidates for that. And this also illustrates, I think, the theoretical, what's at stake in that theoretical debate between Lacan and Deleuze. So for Lacan, the pure complaint is the one that's enunciated in Bisophocles, so in Oedipus at Colonus,…

…And this also illustrates, I think, the theoretical, what's at stake in that theoretical debate between Lacan and Deleuze. So for Lacan, the pure complaint is the one that's enunciated in Bisophocles, so in Oedipus at Colonus, the play that comes after…

…of life. So it's not this kind of existentialist discourse that, okay, we're all going to die, this problematic affinity. But somehow Lacan also reverses this and suggests that death comes first. that we're already dead. And if you want, I think this is…

…Another five, ten minutes? Okay. Then, okay, now we come to the kind of more theoretical problem. So that relationship between Deleuze and Lacan, how do I approach that? And, you know, this also raises a question, I just throw this out as a kind of open…

…the two thinkers, I largely ignore those. And in the end, I came to the conclusion that I think the real debate between Lacan and Deleuze has to do with any kind of internal debate about the meaning of negativity. So I read Deleuze against the grain…

…cliché. So in this sense, I'm faithful to kind of Deleuzean inspiration. But this kind of cliched reception of Deleuze and Lacan, as on the one hand, Deleuze would be the philosopher of affirmation, of becoming, of difference, of creation, and so forth.…

…Lacan, as on the one hand, Deleuze would be the philosopher of affirmation, of becoming, of difference, of creation, and so forth. Lacan was the philosopher of lack, of castration, the law, of the impossible, and so forth. And I want to do something…

…for instance. Now, what can we say from a Lacanian standpoint? I think Deleuze and Guattari do not have the correct understanding of Lacan on this issue. That lack, and to put this very simply, but lack doesn't mean that object that I'm missing out over…

…lack, and to put this very simply, but lack doesn't mean that object that I'm missing out over there. What lack means for Lacan more profoundly is that I lack the very coordinates, the very place from which I could desire. I lack any kind of rules.…

…desire. I lack any kind of rules. I lack guidelines or schema that would actually let me desire in the first place. So, Lacan, I think, in a very radical way, does not presume, you could say, doesn't presume the existence of desire. The desire is…

…very relationship to external sciences, seems to imitate... the very singularities which it self-treats or which it self-ministers to, what Lacan called the objet A. In an interesting way, psychoanalysis itself seems to conceive of itself as the kind of…

…general person, the study of the kind of different distortions itself constitutes the phenomena or the thing in itself. There is no... Lacan has a very nice line about this in his ninth seminar where he reports, so he tells his audience, you know, people…

…why don't you talk about normal desire? You know, why don't you talk about normal desire for a change? And Lacan replies, well, listen, I'm always talking about normal desire. There's even three types, neurotic, perverse, and psychotic. These types actually…

…of subjectivity, what I think is so interesting about now, coming back, why I would choose to write a book about Deleuze and Lacan, is I think both are inspired by the same project, but they approach it in different ways. And you see that it's actually…

…reactualize that kind of radical base of Freud, that critique of normality. Now, whether it succeeds, that's another question. But Lacan also pursues this project, and ultimately the debate between them will be different ways of understanding that thesis, that…

…version of Pessoa? Because in that book, and I thought it's so Lacanian, and I was thinking when you... You mentioned, for Lacan, we haven't even been born yet. We haven't fully mentioned the symbolic order, so we're already born dead. And he describes…

…just try to make some confused remarks. First, about that normality and so on. You know, it's an easy... I disagree even with Lacan here that you quote that. Because if you say, okay, three types of normality, okay, for me it's the same problem as with…

…that problem returns in psychoanalysis. I totally agree. But I think Freud was there onto something that he didn't know. Yeah, that's it. Lacan beat it up. That's my point. But Jung, I just would say he put his finger on the problem and then he went…

…it's only true, let's call it symbolically human sexuality, sexuality itself, in the sense of natural coupling, has to get sexualized. What Lacan proposes is, if I may put it in this way, almost a Kantian, pure schematism of sexuality. which has more to…

…than I think is usually admitted by even Deleuzians. But they don't have that notion, and that's a very interesting notion in Lacan, that there's some kind of negativity that doesn't partake, you could say, directly in the movement of the drives, but has…

…so on. And the problem that I see in philosophy is a very naive one. Up to a point, Derrida and even Lacan still play the transcendental game. By the transcendental game, I mean, although it's not the transcendental subject, but the process. For example,…

…the transcendental game. By the transcendental game, I mean, although it's not the transcendental subject, but the process. For example, when Lacan says, the big other is always already here. We move in a circle. We cannot go beyond. And Lacan, at least…

…For example, when Lacan says, the big other is always already here. We move in a circle. We cannot go beyond. And Lacan, at least the early Lacan, all this... Questions which he addresses courageously sometimes, like how did the symbolic order arouse out…

…the big other is always already here. We move in a circle. We cannot go beyond. And Lacan, at least the early Lacan, all this... Questions which he addresses courageously sometimes, like how did the symbolic order arouse out of animal interaction? He has…

…I think you had in some of your other texts some more explicit passages in this very speculative direction. When you quote that poetic Lacan, you know how it is as if... And Lacan says they're the same as already Walter Benjamin and so on. It is as if…

…some more explicit passages in this very speculative direction. When you quote that poetic Lacan, you know how it is as if... And Lacan says they're the same as already Walter Benjamin and so on. It is as if the symbolic order... brings out some pain…

…in other people's work, like Adrian Johnston, instead to the realm of biology I think, you know, the argument that I take from Lacan is you would not find a kind of smooth transition. So there's some negativity in nature, and then we finally find a…

…that there is no priority of one or the other, but, I mean, the weird thought, again, and I think both Deleuze and Lacan share this, is you should think, I don't know, you should think the intersection oddly has priority over its terms. And that's the…

…butter there. And Heidegger all the time complained, you took too much butter, I want that butter, and so on and so on. Lacan had that impression as well. When he gave him a lift in his car, Heidegger kept complaining that Lacan was driving too fast…

…so on and so on. Lacan had that impression as well. When he gave him a lift in his car, Heidegger kept complaining that Lacan was driving too fast and Lacan just drove faster. But actually, I was thinking, you know, that line from Deleuze that I did…

…that impression as well. When he gave him a lift in his car, Heidegger kept complaining that Lacan was driving too fast and Lacan just drove faster. But actually, I was thinking, you know, that line from Deleuze that I did notice from your book is…

…was never Lacan's idea. And that's not, for me, what's at stake in this kind of universalization of psychosis. I think that for Lacan, you could say, you know, I'm so interested in these, so I'm interested in what we can get out of these classical…

…problems and real erasures of subjectivity like Alzheimer's and so forth. Actually, I think from the beginning, and that's not like late Lacan, I really think that's part of the core of the theory, was that it wasn't simply about the ambiguity, the double…

…not pure real. Capitalism is still a radical symbolic antagonism. They even regress on the Lacanian notion of the real. Lacan says the real is... A deadlock, an unpass of symbolization. The most subversive Lacanian real is precisely totally imminent, just…

…within the ambit of the ego but when the complaint really touches on something that changes or that can't be admitted and then Lacan, even Lacan does have a few lines about complaint and he says what matters about the complaint in a way is what's beyond…

…ambit of the ego but when the complaint really touches on something that changes or that can't be admitted and then Lacan, even Lacan does have a few lines about complaint and he says what matters about the complaint in a way is what's beyond the…

…of Kyle MacLachlan. You never fully learn it. The structure of our sexuality always remains that one, and that's what in a way Lacan means by Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel, that you need a phantasmatic supplement. What does this mean? This means that a…

…an animal way where even there I have a problem if even animals are so stupid. I doubt. Because, you know, as Lacan pointed out, with animals you have complex relationships. strategies of posturing, display. But one thing, and if some of you are…

…What is the subject then? If by subject, and I think I'm right, you mean the subjectivity, then I follow Lacan here. The Cartesian cogito is the subject of the unconscious. It's a beautiful definition. Why? Because it's very counterintuitive. Usually,…

…different answer. This is for me the real of an antagonism where You cannot symbolically fix it. In the same way as for Lacan there is no signifier of sexual difference and so on and so on. You cannot define class difference in an objective way. Every…

…to you as such only once you already are in love. Second point, which is important for me, made very nicely by Lacan. Love is sublimation, not idealization. This means in true love, you don't idealize your partner. That's the miracle of love. You notice…

…be scientific or not. Can be. Scientific or not. Can psychoanalysis be scientific or not? Do you think psychoanalysis is scientific? Well, as Lacan answered this question, and I don't want, please to, I feel bad for talking too much, so I will try to be…

…and I don't want, please to, I feel bad for talking too much, so I will try to be short. You know, the question, Lacan changed this question into a question, how radically do we have to change the notion of science so that psychoanalysis fits into it?…

…is that the one who speaks as a scientist should be, it doesn't matter who it is, empty, anonymous, and so on. And for Lacan, precisely in psychoanalysis, the whole point is that it matters who speaks. And not only this, but even, how should I put it,…

…mentioning this? Because it's exactly for the same reason that in psychoanalysis there has to be money. You pay the analyst. As Lacan and Freud put it very nicely, without money, the analyst would become too involved into the pathological circle and so on.…

…it. But as if by chance, I play a role, part of which is to say I love you. You know, and this is what Lacan meant, that truth has the structure of a fiction. I think, so I don't believe in psychological reality behind and the last thing when we…

…for not being able to enjoy it. People feel guilty for not being, in other words, enjoyment is quite literally becoming what Lacan says when he says that uberi, superego, that the message of superego is genise, enjoy. That this is today's superego. You…

…Kleinesa. Because what I tried to explain to her is that these two, three kilos of overweight, too much, is exactly what Lacan calls Objekt Kleinesa, Lobzeptia, the object cause of desire. Because I told her, the greatest mistake is to think that... if…

…also this retroactive illusion of possible perfection. It was just an ordinary body. So, you see, this is the finesse of what Lacan calls object of desire. There is something which functions as an obstacle to perfection. Just two, three kilos too much. But…

…if you permit me would like before we begin to improvise a little bit beginning with you know it's easy to define what Lacan calls object theta, object small a The whole point of this notion of object A is how it's really a dialectical notion. It's…

…as an obstacle it equates Again, why is this object cause of desire? Because, okay, let's start with the elementary things. When Lacan says, object cause of desire... We are talking elementary things, but I think we should do this. Don't you think that…

…Miller, the great Stalinist Lacombe. I always called him a Stalinist when we were friends, and he laughed because you know why? Lacan says in encore, draws this parallel, Freud and Lacan, Marx and Lenin. And then, well, who is the next guy? It's Freud,…

…a Stalinist when we were friends, and he laughed because you know why? Lacan says in encore, draws this parallel, Freud and Lacan, Marx and Lenin. And then, well, who is the next guy? It's Freud, Lacan, Lacan's successor. it became a public spectacle,…

…says in encore, draws this parallel, Freud and Lacan, Marx and Lenin. And then, well, who is the next guy? It's Freud, Lacan, Lacan's successor. it became a public spectacle, Miller had in Paris every week a closed seminar, just 15-20 people, and there I…

…self-evident. With all problems I have with him, personal, even theoretical, he is the only absolute pedagogical genius that I know. Lacan was happy to have him because for a whole generation, even for those who later disagreed with him, Miller made Lacan…

…I know. Lacan was happy to have him because for a whole generation, even for those who later disagreed with him, Miller made Lacan readable. And I didn't lose my track. Pierre was torturing us once for two hours. Okay, between what and what is the…

…And of course, we went through and came to the only consistent answer, you know? It's not between this and that for Lacan. It's not you have a conscious part and then the stupid iceberg beneath endlessly cutting a certain quantity, like half, half, half,…

…sorry, let's go on. So, object A. On the one hand is this empirical sign of imperfection, but on the other hand, as Lacan emphasizes, it's also the most purely formal element. As Lacan says, object A is just a certain structure coincidence of a purely…

…this empirical sign of imperfection, but on the other hand, as Lacan emphasizes, it's also the most purely formal element. As Lacan says, object A is just a certain structure coincidence of a purely formal void with a totally contingent element filling it…

…a community, it's never just you have rules for theoretical reasons which can be nicely explained through the logic of known all by Lacan and so on you never have just rules you always have let's call them naively meta-rules which tell you how to treat…

…here comes my pessimist anthropology, if you want. I think most of the people don't want to know it. You have to... Lacan made some nice things, but Lacan ferociously opposes this notion of visit street, that there is ingrained deep in us some drive…

…if you want. I think most of the people don't want to know it. You have to... Lacan made some nice things, but Lacan ferociously opposes this notion of visit street, that there is ingrained deep in us some drive to know. No, Lacan makes it clear.…

…nice things, but Lacan ferociously opposes this notion of visit street, that there is ingrained deep in us some drive to know. No, Lacan makes it clear. When you come to truly dramatic points, we don't want to know it. And in one of my political books,…

…leaving you some, like, there I don't see you, there I'm even expecting you to do it. And maybe you know this story, Lacan draws attention to it, that even in Old Testament, you know, is it first, second, I don't know which commandment, don't celebrate…

…follow the ritual. And he says, your beliefs, your problem. So what I want to say is that in this sense, Lacan claims that the paternal prohibition, far from prohibiting, far from rendering enjoyment, impossible, sustenances, opens up the space. That's how…

…Brazilian master addressing you both in drive and in desire object A is the cause I'm not sure myself, but I tried to, because Lacan, in one of the Q&A sessions at the end of one session in Seminary 11, I think he even asked this question directly.…

…as such. do this. Why don't we? Because you gave me the idea of how maybe I will try to convince you how Lacan works, if we go a little bit into this elementary Lacanian coordination. Like what we were saying, Lacan's theory of discourses, how simply…

…am I? This is the cause of historicization. And if you want to study ideology, I claim that that's the greatness of Lacan, that we should read what Lacan calls interpellation because as Lacan himself says the basic hysterical question is what for an…

…of historicization. And if you want to study ideology, I claim that that's the greatness of Lacan, that we should read what Lacan calls interpellation because as Lacan himself says the basic hysterical question is what for an object I am like okay it's…

…want to study ideology, I claim that that's the greatness of Lacan, that we should read what Lacan calls interpellation because as Lacan himself says the basic hysterical question is what for an object I am like okay it's very annoying this is the only…

…me knowledge, what an object I am, what do you love me? version where knowledge is here the product. Which is why Lacan is far from, you should remember this, far from dismissing hysteria. That's another topic. One of the unfortunate things of the 68…

…subject par excellence hysterical subject is the feminine subject which means something pretty radical people usually don't get it that for Lacan not only is the subject not stereotypical this one in the leading position, yeah, S, and sorry, we, sorry, aha,…

…in many ways, what I see in your work is the centrality of the catastrophic, the monstrous, and the traumatic. And even Jacques Lacan is a kind of means by which you force us to come to terms with the traumatic. And postmodernist moves of cynicism and…

…selected it because my wife wanted to see it. I mean... So it's not, you know, this is an example, an example of what Lacan means, desire is the desire of the other, no? But more seriously, the reason I like the movie is nonetheless that it's clearly…

…his new book, this shadow in a sense has become deeper yet richer, furthering the dialogue in Zizek's thinking with Lacan and other thinkers both contemporary and historical. What characterizes Zizek's thinking, and this book is no exception, is not just…

…all we can do is this. And my big problem is, again, is this enough? Can we move beyond the transcendental? And for me, Hegel, Lacan, what I'm struggling with is a way to say, yes, we can. But without falling into simple, and for me here, I can tell…

…approach it, and so on and so on. So how can we really break out of the transcendental horizon? The answer of me is Hegel, Lacan, and so on and so on. So the upshot of what you just said is that you're not a continental philosopher? No, in some…

…for Derrida, again, for analytical philosophy, it's again, philosophy which is not yet... I don't accept... I'm here on the side of Lacan or maybe Gilles Deleuze, who try not to proceed in this negative totalization, like all guys, I'm sorry to put it so…

…want to move the conversation on to that now. Central to this, the political aspect of the book is your connection of Hegel with Lacan. Now you write... Lacan is just an instrument for me to read Hegel, I openly admit. Now one of the things you get…

…conversation on to that now. Central to this, the political aspect of the book is your connection of Hegel with Lacan. Now you write... Lacan is just an instrument for me to read Hegel, I openly admit. Now one of the things you get from Lacan is the…

…you write... Lacan is just an instrument for me to read Hegel, I openly admit. Now one of the things you get from Lacan is the following. I'm going to read a passage from the book. You say, Lacan unveiled the illusions on which capitalist reality as…

…Now one of the things you get from Lacan is the following. I'm going to read a passage from the book. You say, Lacan unveiled the illusions on which capitalist reality as well as its false transgressions are based. So the question then is what for you,…

…on which capitalist reality as well as its false transgressions are based. So the question then is what for you, Hegel, adds to Lacan? And it seems to me that for you it's a refusal of Lacan's conclusion that we are condemned to domination, that there…

…know what I mean. This is the key, yes. And I think things are here dramatically undecided for me, because, you know, Lacan was not always... moving in this direction. There are even elements of a, and incidentally here, Lacan is, again, a wonderful…

…me, because, you know, Lacan was not always... moving in this direction. There are even elements of a, and incidentally here, Lacan is, again, a wonderful parallel similar to Hegel. You know that you have two main figures of Hegel till recently.…

…a liberal Hegel. No? Hegel of recognition. Yeah, Hegel of anerkennung, recognition. And it's so interesting that exactly the same with Lacan. Traditionally, there was a conservative, Lacan, you know, the line which is, Lacan was never there, but he had some…

…Yeah, Hegel of anerkennung, recognition. And it's so interesting that exactly the same with Lacan. Traditionally, there was a conservative, Lacan, you know, the line which is, Lacan was never there, but he had some pupils whose claim was the condition…

…it's so interesting that exactly the same with Lacan. Traditionally, there was a conservative, Lacan, you know, the line which is, Lacan was never there, but he had some pupils whose claim was the condition of normality is normal paternal authority, Pierre…

…is liberal Lacanianism. And here I part ways with a guy to whom I owe almost all. He introduced me to Lacan, Lacan's officially designated inheritor, Jacqueline Miller, who unfortunately now moves in this direction. The theory is this one. Every social…

…appearances. Things can only get worse. So it's a kind of an enlightened, cynical attitude. I don't think this is the only Lacan. If nothing else, I admire Lacan. late Lacan's ramblings on how to organize the Freudian school. I call this ironically his…

…So it's a kind of an enlightened, cynical attitude. I don't think this is the only Lacan. If nothing else, I admire Lacan. late Lacan's ramblings on how to organize the Freudian school. I call this ironically his Leninist writings because he failed, but…

…the first and second manifesto of philosophy. But there's kind of a similar strategy, like there's the two orders of being in Lacan. And then there's kind of, you know how bad you, especially in the first manifesto, there's the same sort of strategy, I…

…have For example, although here it's not the one, but the second. You know, I'm sorry for repeating myself, when Lacan claims that urfer drangum, primordial repression, is the repression of the binary signifier. This is absolutely crucial for Lacan, because…

…when Lacan claims that urfer drangum, primordial repression, is the repression of the binary signifier. This is absolutely crucial for Lacan, because this is why Lacan's, and I will come to your point, Lacan's theory of sexual difference has nothing to…

…go on. The problem of appearance and so on. I don't know if I got you correctly there, being an appearance, but more Lacan than Badiou now, no? First, with Lacan, as I already mentioned, when you talk about inexistence, maybe I'm wrong, but the way I…

…so on. I don't know if I got you correctly there, being an appearance, but more Lacan than Badiou now, no? First, with Lacan, as I already mentioned, when you talk about inexistence, maybe I'm wrong, but the way I read inexistence, I don't see any…

…it doesn't have a place in this sense, it doesn't exist. Now, I don't know how much, how far Badiou goes here, but for Lacan, he's here almost a Hegelian, you know, existence is absolutely not the same as you know as being. Existence is, for Allain, if…

…So for existence, you only have to have an essence. What doesn't have an essence is, but doesn't exist. And now we come to Lacan. This is why, for Lacan, neither the subject exists nor the woman. And you should be very careful here. Lacan does not say,…

…have to have an essence. What doesn't have an essence is, but doesn't exist. And now we come to Lacan. This is why, for Lacan, neither the subject exists nor the woman. And you should be very careful here. Lacan does not say, and Lacan knows what he's…

…now we come to Lacan. This is why, for Lacan, neither the subject exists nor the woman. And you should be very careful here. Lacan does not say, and Lacan knows what he's talking about, at least here, il n'y a pas de femme, there are no women. No,…

…Lacan. This is why, for Lacan, neither the subject exists nor the woman. And you should be very careful here. Lacan does not say, and Lacan knows what he's talking about, at least here, il n'y a pas de femme, there are no women. No, there are, il y a…

…a de femme, but la femme n'existe pas. A woman doesn't exist. A Bruce Fink drew nicely, attention, in Margaret then, il n'existe pas. Lacan says, il n'y a pas de grand autre, there is no big other. He doesn't only say the big other doesn't exist. The…

…point, the point which in a way I think we should use here nicely the Lacanian distinction between existence and existence. Lacan And again, in this precise sense for Lacan, subject doesn't exist. It just leaves traces in existence, and so on and…

…I think we should use here nicely the Lacanian distinction between existence and existence. Lacan And again, in this precise sense for Lacan, subject doesn't exist. It just leaves traces in existence, and so on and so on. As to what you said about being,…

…in the lack, which precisely the point is that there is nothing behind. You know all the examples, this eternal joke of Lacan that I refer to even more eternally, repetitively, Zeuxis, Parasius, you know, those two Greek painters and, like, you know, who…

…She introduces here the distinction, although they are the same, but the function is totally different, between master signifier and what Lacan For Alenka, the event is this naming. When you provide the signifier of the inconsistency of the big other. When…

…of catastrophes going to happen? This is a very good question because, for a simple dogmatic reason, because it sounds very Lacanian. Lacan, Jacques Lacan, developed in detail this idea which is, I think, very profound. That in order to really look at the…

…going to happen? This is a very good question because, for a simple dogmatic reason, because it sounds very Lacanian. Lacan, Jacques Lacan, developed in detail this idea which is, I think, very profound. That in order to really look at the thing, in some…

…in us. Now you said something so profound that I'm just sad that we cannot go on indefinitely. Because I think Jacques Lacan says this. The true... metaphysical question is not, do we believe in God? Well, some people do, some not, who cares? The…

…the moment you mention publicly this fact, everybody is ashamed. This is the best case, I think, or example of what Lacan means by the big other, the agent of appearances. Now let's go to politics. Stalinism is perhaps the clearest political case…

…that, and so on and so on. No. Freud was right. We are extraordinary, complex, divided persons, and The great lesson of Jacques Lacan is that there is always a minimal gap between what you want and what you really desire. It's quite often that what you…

…subjectivity is more feminine. And that's the great thing about psychoanalysis. What I mean by this? You know, hysteria for Freud, and Lacan points this out, it's the basic form of critique of ideology in practice. Why? Because, as Lacan points out in a…

…for Freud, and Lacan points this out, it's the basic form of critique of ideology in practice. Why? Because, as Lacan points out in a wonderful way, The basic mechanism of ideology is ideological symbolic identification. The existing order tells you,…

…what we know, he voted for De Gaulle when his daughter supported against France the Algerian uprising late 50s, in late 50s, early 60s. Lacan was and wanted to join the communist party. Lacan was stopped at it and so on and so on. But so that I don't…

…daughter supported against France the Algerian uprising late 50s, in late 50s, early 60s. Lacan was and wanted to join the communist party. Lacan was stopped at it and so on and so on. But so that I don't lose time here, more important, The beginning of…

…wanted to jump in, because the... direction of Slavoj's intervention in a way flipped your assumption of this tragic Marquis de Sade, Lacan of the ethics version of the suicide. That's not what I just heard, which was an interesting kind of reversal. Just…

…it's a fake comedy. the position of tragedy. So this is why, just another Lacanian dogmatic explanation, I also oppose this focus of Lacan as a thinker of tragic lack. Whatever we have in our hands, we always miss the ultimate object of desire. No, as I…

…tragic lack. Whatever we have in our hands, we always miss the ultimate object of desire. No, as I insist again and again, For Lacan, the other aspect of this lack is always an excess. You encounter sexuality not as a lack, but as an excess. The other…

…world is... limited, just pragmatic, empirical, suicidal disappearance is the only true act. I will go to the end here. I think Lacan himself, now I'm addressing to the few among you who are a little bit more dogmatically educated in Lacan, that's how I…

…I think Lacan himself, now I'm addressing to the few among you who are a little bit more dogmatically educated in Lacan, that's how I read Lacan's seminar which comes after The Ethics. where Lacan gives his wonderful reading of Claudel's Coufontaine…

…are a little bit more dogmatically educated in Lacan, that's how I read Lacan's seminar which comes after The Ethics. where Lacan gives his wonderful reading of Claudel's Coufontaine trilogy. I think that Lacan's reading of Antigone is still marked by this…

…ethics? No, it's the transverse. For me, I deserve gulag for this deviation, sorry. But there it's absolutely a self-critique of Lacan, of his one-sided reading of ethics, because his reading of Antigone there, again, can still be read in this way. We…

…transphobia, listen, my position is very clear, and as you pointed out, and I agree here, even repeated, repetitively. Why? Because I follow Lacan here. No, no, no, not that this justifies me. What I like in Lacan is that he has a couple of examples…

…agree here, even repeated, repetitively. Why? Because I follow Lacan here. No, no, no, not that this justifies me. What I like in Lacan is that he has a couple of examples stories, literal motives, and he returns to them again and again. But you follow…

…same way that masculinity is. It's not masculine identity and feminine identity. And this is, I think, exactly, you may disagree, what Lacan means by La femme n'existe pas. Exactly. That's why I claimed, now that may be a problematic point for you, that…

…it's great. I'm taking it away back to other theologians. You know to whom I refer here? I found only now a wonderful passage in Lacan, I forgot in which seminar, where he says that desire as such is hell and the very idea of heaven is uh how do you…

…the cut. I will make the scansion in the Lacanian sense. No, fuck this. You make the Stalinist cut. Enough comments. Stalin and Lacan. That was actually a debate we had recently, which was, was Kojev a Stalinist? And did Lacan read Kojev as a Stalinist?…

…cut. Enough comments. Stalin and Lacan. That was actually a debate we had recently, which was, was Kojev a Stalinist? And did Lacan read Kojev as a Stalinist? It's a very interesting debate. You know, I spoke with some people. It was... A friend of…

…acts, which include feelings, but not feelings of isolated individuals. It's kind of objective, collective feeling. This agency is what Lacan calls big other, the social substance. And it's extremely important. What do I mean by this? One more example. To…

…is this not in some sense the death of what we at least till now understand or understood as a human being. This, following Lacan, I would have called it second death, not physical death, but even when we are alive, the death of what we understood till…

…will no longer be alienated. We, our collective mind, will be able to control the situation. I think the lesson of Freud and Lacan is that no, we will never get there. What our highest desire should be, not a self-transparency of social life, but a good…

…are not just individuals communicating with each other. In every communication, there is a... presence only virtual of what Jacques Lacan called le grand autre, the big other, the anonymous system which regulates it. All these norms and expectations and…

…but not meant seriously, and so on. And this is, I think, threatened today. Now you said you found this with Jacques Lacan. You studied in Paris in the 1980s with his student and son-in-law, Jacques-Alain Miller. And this Jacques Lacan is very important…

…you found this with Jacques Lacan. You studied in Paris in the 1980s with his student and son-in-law, Jacques-Alain Miller. And this Jacques Lacan is very important to you and also this term of the real. We want to talk a little bit about it now. And…

…this term of the real. We want to talk a little bit about it now. And we have prepared a play where you can see Jacques Lacan. We'll take a quick look at it. Please. I always tell the truth. Not all of them. Because to say all of them, we can't do…

…touches the real. First, I must say something that will shock you. Can I ask a question? No, it's good. We can just start. Lacan was a very deep influence on me, but rhetorically, at the level of behavior, nothing is more foreign to me than what you…

…all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I cannot be like that. But it's very important, here comes my Hegelianism, to understand what Lacan says here correctly. He doesn't say there is a truth out there, but we cannot fully grasp it. Something always... avoids…