…simple example here. Adorno, in an early but good text on the notion of Gesellschaft, society, makes the same point as Lacan, I claim, where he says we have today two predominant notions of society, the individualist-liberal The ultimate fact are individuals…

…our society. That's the basic Hegelian trick. What you think is an obstacle is its own solution. And this is what Lacan means, c'est parce pas tout, it is through this non-all antagonism inconsistency that we touch things. But that's interesting, this…

…thinking and so on, compete for primacy. Also, primacy in the sense of which of them will count as what Jacques Lacan called primacy. point de capitaine, the quilting point, steppunkt, I think it's translated into German, which totalizes all others. The…

…taking from us, gradually eroding our way of life, we should apply here another category, that of the theft of enjoyment. Jacques Lacan predicted way back in the early 1970s that capitalist globalization will rise to a new mode of racism, focused on the…

…enjoyment, which is not direct enjoyment, but enjoyment in a certain way of life, is, I claim, close to what Jacques Lacan called surplus enjoyment. Surplus enjoyment is something that adds itself to, let's call it, the zero-level enjoyment. Now, we should…

…it, the zero-level enjoyment. Now, we should bear in mind that it was Marx's notion of surplus value, which enabled Lacan to deploy his notion of surplus enjoyment. The predominant motive which permits all Lacan's references to Marx's analysis of commodities…

…while believing that they are just pursuing their self-interest. It's clear, the idea of this paradox. Again, to recapitulate, according to Jacques Lacan, our desire is not really to achieve the goal, but to reproduce itself as a desire. I want that, but I…

…third term, superego. Now, what is superego? Superego is not a higher moral agency. If one reads Freud closely, we see that, as Lacan pointed out, that superego, Iberich, Super ego is, at its most basic, the injunction to enjoy. To enjoy is not a matter…

…at the direct level. You obey a strangely twisted, perverted notion of ethical commandment, of ethical... duty. In this sense, Lacan was more precise than Freud. He elaborated a distinction between three terms which Freud treats as equal. Ideal ego, ego…

…bit too simple. Why? First, let's look at it from the standpoint of the father. Every authority has to rely on what Jacques Lacan called symbolic castration. Not I. The bearer of authority itself is castrated. Let's say if I am a king, I have to accept…

…makes me a king. My authority is embodied in the insignia that I wear. So my authority is in some sense external to me. As Lacan put it, only a psychotic is a king who thinks that he is really a king in itself. That's why being a father is by…

…say it was just a little bit over 5 million, you know. That's what you get into. But I claim that, again, here... As Lacan would have put it, you know, racism is a matter of style, implication. You can make jokes which are apparently racist, but they…

…tell you this is to repeat an old joke of mine that I like. Not even a joke, a clinical observation by Jacques Lacan, my teacher in psychoanalysis, who said when a husband is pathologically jealous of his wife, that he sleeps together with other men.…

…this situation, I think. Yes. I mean, they don't feel pleasure, but they can feel glee. I agree with you. For Lacan, enjoyment is pleasure in pain, not direct pleasure. Never underestimate how people, when they have to renounce some pleasure, can drop…

…go together, and desire and happiness don't go together. By desire, I don't mean just desiring something. I mean what Lacan described. formulates as the ethics of psychoanalysis. Stand by your desire, do not compromise your desire. Maybe the only serious…

…these stories, it's a strange reactivation of patriarchy. Crucial for the transition is the good father. I remember here Jacques Lacan who says, maybe Alenka you know better how that the only tolerable whatever sexual relationship can occur under the guise…

…is Lenin? And the guy said, hey, Lenin is in Warsaw, you know. That's why she's doing this here. This is what Lacan means by Vorstellungsrepresentant. Something is, the title doesn't name the content of the image, but that which has to be excluded so…

…free subject? No. You are just a puppet, the big other, the symbolic order, runs the game, and so on. But look, Lacan follows here Freud. Yes, you are overdetermined. But you cannot use this over-determination or psychic necessity which makes you what you…

…hand, I always emphasize this. I will use a metaphor which I already used in my class. I'm sorry. You know, Jacques Lacan has a wonderful saying somewhere, my psychoanalytic teacher. If... There is a jealous husband who is obsessed that his wife is…

…be here ruthless. There is a logic, there is this basic model of refugees are a threat to us. This is the same as what Lacan says about jealousy. The true question is why this fear of ours which cannot be grounded simply in facts, but it tells a lot…

…But he did say another nice thing. He said that the way, it's a wonderful thought, He was well aware, Levinas, of what Lacan is already saying, that neighbor in Jewish tradition and then Christianity is not a fellow man. It's not, oh, he's like me. No.…

…Then he said, my God, but did I know this guy at all? How can he do, at that moment I become a neighbor. Lacan also developed that neighbor is the other in the abyss of its otherness where you never know what it is. And as Levinas interprets…

…there always is a belief embodied either in what you do or also a very interesting phenomenon. You transpose belief onto another. As Lacan would have put it, the big other beliefs. Now let me give you two examples on this, which are... One of, no, maybe…

…off, manipulated by power. The reason I also like jokes is they are, for me, a wonderful example of this anonymous creativity of what Lacan calls the big other. What do I mean by this? Did you notice how Jokes are, on the one hand, a moment of…

…put it nicely in one of his last books, it's basically political love. So again, one should be here very, very precise. When Lacan says woman is a symptom of man, this doesn't mean the usual chauvinist wisdom of woman is nothing, just the reflection of…

…this doesn't mean the usual chauvinist wisdom of woman is nothing, just the reflection of man, man creates the woman. I mean, what Lacan means by symptom is something much more radical. Symptom is... That what is in you more than you, like symptom is not…

…is... That what is in you more than you, like symptom is not your reflection. You depend on the symptom. Symptom, paradoxically for Lacan, pre-exists that of which it is a symptom. Symptom hinges on it. The best... idea that I have, example of this woman…

…really get it. But simply, she is not a Lacanian, so she doesn't use the term, but deploys the logic of what Lacan means by surplus enjoyment. Surplus enjoyment is not simply, no, it's just ordinary sex or pleasure, it's something more. emerges in the…

…desire is impossible means we never get it. We just get metonymic or metaphoric displacement. We never get the thing itself. Lacan says something much more crucial than the opposite also holds. We cannot get rid of enjoyment. You have a certain enjoyment.…

…would be, for example, Lacan's basic model of surplus enjoyment. Or even at its most elementary, you know, this is how Lacan defines drive. Drive is specifically human, not the same as animal instinct. It means that, for example, a consulmentary example, or…

…this lapse once. He said, hysterics only dream about things, perverts do it in reality. No, for Freud already and for Lacan, Perversion is the highest stage of repression. We should always bear in mind this. Trump is not somebody who... literally says…

…to overcome historicism. But again, at the same time, just to finish, because I've now written a new text on it. You know, Lacan is not discourse theorist in the sense that truth is just a truth effect. so that every discursive practice has its own…

…a truth effect. so that every discursive practice has its own procedures, strategies, that construct its own specific truth notion. For Lacan, truth is not... An effect, but as Lacan says directly in his key writing, Science and Truth. Truth is a cause…

…has its own procedures, strategies, that construct its own specific truth notion. For Lacan, truth is not... An effect, but as Lacan says directly in his key writing, Science and Truth. Truth is a cause in psychoanalysis, not in positive science. That's a…

…truth. which cannot be reduced to positive knowledge. My eternal example, just to remind our listeners, is that wonderful example of Lacan, you know. Let's say I'm a male chauvinist man and suspect my wife of cheating me sleeping with other men. Even…

…opposition, like men active, women passive, whatever. These are all constructs. So what I would say is that empirically, what Lacan says, there is no sexual relationship, means precisely that, again, at the phenomenon level, there are never just men and…

…There are languages which you could say would resist this kind of this invasion by people like Elon Musk. I mean, if Lacan said about what Lacan said about the Japanese language or maybe what Freud said about the unconscious of the Irish, maybe that…

…which you could say would resist this kind of this invasion by people like Elon Musk. I mean, if Lacan said about what Lacan said about the Japanese language or maybe what Freud said about the unconscious of the Irish, maybe that is the means where we…

…on. I know Hegel is one of the key figures in your dossier. Two of the other key figures in your dossier, I suppose, would be Lacan and maybe you will Kant as well, up to a point. Kant and Marx, up to a point. Up to a point, exactly. But I…

…relation to the pandemic, whether there's an argument to be made for something of the status of the virus as something like what Lacan calls l'objet petit R. Now, we'll have to decode that in some way, but it has some connections with the Kantian ding…

…of the women. I totally agree. Not all women agree, right? Not all women agree. I even gave examples as a Lacanian. Lacan says somewhere, and this is for me a beautiful feminist statement, that in the majority of cases of a normal, under quotation…

…of Dawkins' notion of mem, like genes, mems... Our mind works as a virus. And now I'm getting closer to my terrain. Jacques Lacan knew this when he says the big other is parasitizing of us. There is no harmonic continuity between human, animal, and the…

…this, a kind of a philosophical zombie who cannot die. But one of his revenants, you say, repeater is a French philosopher, Jacques Lacan. And in your last books, you always said that we need Lacan to keep Hegel alive? Is this still your position that…

…of his revenants, you say, repeater is a French philosopher, Jacques Lacan. And in your last books, you always said that we need Lacan to keep Hegel alive? Is this still your position that we need Lacan as a repeater of Hegel to keep him alive? Here,…

…Lacan. And in your last books, you always said that we need Lacan to keep Hegel alive? Is this still your position that we need Lacan as a repeater of Hegel to keep him alive? Here, in an interview that I recently gave, I think I draw a nice parallel…

…him alive? Here, in an interview that I recently gave, I think I draw a nice parallel between this formula, Hegel avec Lacan, Hegel with Lacan, and Jacques Lacan's thesis, which is already in a different way, developed by Adorno and Horkheimer in their…

…an interview that I recently gave, I think I draw a nice parallel between this formula, Hegel avec Lacan, Hegel with Lacan, and Jacques Lacan's thesis, which is already in a different way, developed by Adorno and Horkheimer in their dialectic, their…

…of a pure ethical... pressure to enjoy, which can be even very painful, and so on. So in the same way, I think Hegel avec Lacan doesn't mean what some readers did at a very high level. I admire them. They were popular. I read them when I was younger.…

…You claim in all your previous books on Hegel, we talked about it, that the updating of Hegel must be done through Lacan. But Lacan visited the famous lectures on the phenomenology of spirit that Russian philosopher Alexander Kozhev gave in the 1930s in…

…all your previous books on Hegel, we talked about it, that the updating of Hegel must be done through Lacan. But Lacan visited the famous lectures on the phenomenology of spirit that Russian philosopher Alexander Kozhev gave in the 1930s in Paris. Kozhev's…

…is, A, sorry, pure form of subjectivity is Cartesian cogito, what Kant would have called subject of transcendental apperception, which, and Lacan always emphasizes this, should not be confused by the wealth of my inner life. I cannot be reduced to my inner…

…one joke? They couldn't remember it. The only joke I know is in a letter to that guy, Medard Boss, a psychiatrist friend, Lacan, it's not a great joke, but at least an ironic remark. Heidegger reports after meeting Lacan that Lacan seems to him a…

…guy, Medard Boss, a psychiatrist friend, Lacan, it's not a great joke, but at least an ironic remark. Heidegger reports after meeting Lacan that Lacan seems to him a psychiatrist who is himself in need of a psychiatrist. Okay, it's not a bad joke, but…

…Boss, a psychiatrist friend, Lacan, it's not a great joke, but at least an ironic remark. Heidegger reports after meeting Lacan that Lacan seems to him a psychiatrist who is himself in need of a psychiatrist. Okay, it's not a bad joke, but the only…

…on. I know Hegel is one of the key figures in your dossier. Two of the other key figures in your dossier, I suppose, would be Lacan and maybe you were Kant as well, up to a point. Kant and Marx, up to a point. Up to a point, exactly. But I…

…relation to the pandemic, whether there's an argument to be made for something of the status of the virus as something like what Lacan calls l'objet petit a. Now, we'll have to decode that in some way, but it has some connections with the Kantian ding…

…know it understandable you know there is a key difference between kantian think in itself the way it is independently of us and what Lacan calls object small a i will not get lost now in philosophy just to give you and for Lacan Object A is more a…

…it is independently of us and what Lacan calls object small a i will not get lost now in philosophy just to give you and for Lacan Object A is more a kind of a core of a fantasy. It's phantasmatic. Let me give you a simple example. I always use it,…

…from Richard Dawkins to Daniel Dennett, for them, and I found this a very convincing theory, at a different level, Jacques Lacan, my psychoanalytic master, is saying the same thing. At the same time, our mind... and especially language, is kind of a…

…like. Just don't forget something. I don't have the time to go into it today. It can be developed in a nice way. Jacques Lacan did it. Oedipus doesn't have an Oedipus complex. No, it's totally wrong. Oedipus just did it. Screw his mother and so on. But…

…maybe to conclude with one of my intellectuals here, he had the same problem. Friends were telling me, older people knew him, Lacan behaved in public in a very affected, typically French way, you know, these artificial manners. And then, of course, as a…

…real person behind? Does he have an ugly side, or he likes pornography, cheap literature, whatever? And my psychoanalytic teacher, Jacques Lacan, this was because he always appeared in public in heavily mannered way and so on. And people asked me, no, I…

…he was supposed to it, but how problematic it is, love your neighbor as yourself. Because, you know, for Freud... and Jacques Lacan later, neighbor is the opposite to your fellow man. Neighbor is precisely, you know what would be for me the best…

…and so on. I'm talking about a kind of a I don't like the term psychology here. Subjective. Subjective version of what Lacan called subjective destitution and so on and so on. In every radical social change, something like this has to happen. Yes, it…

…say is that here... I'm sorry to repeat another... Old story, which is my favorite one. I like this. He's close to a joker here. Lacan was much more a joker than me, I think. Maybe you know the story. I was telling you that, you know, Lacan played a…

…here. Lacan was much more a joker than me, I think. Maybe you know the story. I was telling you that, you know, Lacan played a certain role, a little bit comical, ironic, in public, very affected, artificial. And then I asked older people who knew Lacan…

…a certain role, a little bit comical, ironic, in public, very affected, artificial. And then I asked older people who knew Lacan closely, it was a typical bourgeois obsession of mine, but you know him privately, tell me, what's the real person behind…

…truth is in your mask. The truth is in what you are doing. So that's why my psychoanalytic teacher, now dead, Jacques Lacan, my favorite anecdote about him is the following one. acted publicly in a very affected way, this complex French phrase. He was…

…acted publicly in a very affected way, this complex French phrase. He was playing a role. Then I knew some people who knew Lacan intimately and asked them, okay, do you discover then a private person? He can be funny, ordinary. They told me, no, in…

…read it in a male chauvinist way as hysterical women. For Jacques Lapon, this is the highest mode of subjectivity. Lacan emphasizes that all creative science, not university science where you just report on the results, but creative science is hysterical.…

…from in to outward and how people are more and more addressing something in front of them or some other... The other in Lacan, I think, who would be just the resemblant other, or someone who's kind of your peer other. But this is the solution of…

…is at the moment? I don't believe in immediate practical efficiency, like to be a successful leftist politician, you need to read Lacan. But I think that things that we are witnessing today, which can at least partially be covered by the notion coined…

…you are vulgar directly, but all the oppression remains there. And these are the paradoxes today. For example, what I learned from Lacan for our analysis is how totally wrong Dostoevsky was. It's one of the big things that I hate about. I'm not a…

…he, one of his heroes with Dostoevsky, it's always more ambiguous. If there is no God, then everything is wrong. permitted. And Lacan turned this around. No. If there is God, then everything is permitted. Because if there is God in this strong sense,…

…even philosophical, very fundamental philosophical implications. And also psychoanalytic ones, because one of your other great influences is Lacan, right? So you bring this psychoanalytic view, and like you said, you think that these categories of masculine,…

…go to the end what hysterics only dream about. I think, for reasons that I will not develop now, that this and Jacques Lacan and Freud are very clear at this point. No, perversion is not subversive. Perversion is always the hidden, obscene other side of…

…nothing. And I think that human desire and subjectivity, to cut a long story short, are something like this. And when Lacan talks about... When Lacan, Jacques Lacan, talks about so-called object A, object cause of desire, it's pre-end of surplus enjoyment,…

…that human desire and subjectivity, to cut a long story short, are something like this. And when Lacan talks about... When Lacan, Jacques Lacan, talks about so-called object A, object cause of desire, it's pre-end of surplus enjoyment, plus de jouir, it's…

…desire and subjectivity, to cut a long story short, are something like this. And when Lacan talks about... When Lacan, Jacques Lacan, talks about so-called object A, object cause of desire, it's pre-end of surplus enjoyment, plus de jouir, it's precisely a…

…desire, it's pre-end of surplus enjoyment, plus de jouir, it's precisely a paradoxical entity which exists only in excess. When Lacan speaks about surplus enjoyment, it's not we have a basic enjoyment and then a surplus enjoyment. Basic enjoyment is simple…

…enjoyment, it's not we have a basic enjoyment and then a surplus enjoyment. Basic enjoyment is simple pleasure. It's not enjoyment for Lacan. Enjoyment is in itself an excess. And now, let's go further. To amuse you a little bit, I will try to develop…

…sure a difference here it doesn't matter if I really hit with this Alain Badiou or not the difference between Badiou and Lacan for Badiou subject is without an object What makes subject, subject is precisely, it's not embedded in, and so on. For Lacan,…

…Badiou subject is without an object What makes subject, subject is precisely, it's not embedded in, and so on. For Lacan, there is no subject without an object. Even the most abstract subjectivity, the Hegelian pure self-relating or Cartesian cogito, need…

…The very failures in her report. The very inconsistencies, confusions, can signal authenticity. You know, this is a beautiful paradox, Lacan. Jacques Lacan mentioned it somewhere, that our subjective expression is always a failed one. In the sense that you…

…failures in her report. The very inconsistencies, confusions, can signal authenticity. You know, this is a beautiful paradox, Lacan. Jacques Lacan mentioned it somewhere, that our subjective expression is always a failed one. In the sense that you want to say…

…them with these problems of neural ink wiring the brain and so on, I'm asking them one simple question. For Jacques Lacan, unconscious is not some spiritual substance, deep instinct. It's a very fragile virtual entity. It is what some intelligent beings,…

…Maybe I'm distorted by my youthful experience, but the great news when I was young was this great wave of French thought, Lacan, Althusser, anti-humanism, and so on and so on. So I think that, and I connect this with the legacy of German idealism.…

…in a further speculation, I don't have the time to go into it now, I would have said that... This is why, for Lacan, the basic form or the basic form, shape of human subjectivity is feminine. and hysterical. For a true Freudian, the term hysteria is…

…is feminine. and hysterical. For a true Freudian, the term hysteria is something the highest you can say about a person. Lacan is clear here. He says university discourse is established knowledge. Inventions happen at the level of hysteria. Hysteria is for…

…I'm bluffing, don't ask me, but at least I think I'm more radically oriented here. That's the lesson of psychoanalysis, of Jacques Lacan, do not compromise your desire. If you desire something... Think about it, go to the end in it. Of course, you should…

…go together and desire and happiness don't go together. By desire, I don't mean just desiring something. I mean what Lacan described. formulates as the ethics of psychoanalysis. Stand by your desire, do not compromise your desire. Maybe the only serious…

…both these stories, it's a strange reactivation of patriarchy. Crucial for the transition is the good father. I remember here Jacques Lacan who says, maybe I think you know better how that the only tolerable whatever sexual relationship can occur under the…

…more, to the topic of the Freudian unconscious. The unconscious for Freud is not some deeper irrational dimension, but it's what Lacan would have called a virtual another-see, which accompanies my conscious content. Let me take an example of a joke that I…

…again a short text published in the journal Crisis and Critique. You can freely download it. It's the last issue dedicated to Lacan, where you also find, I mentioned it yesterday, the text by Adrian Johnson. And here Milner has a short text entitled…

…how you make plural of exodus, exoda or, okay, we'll take the primitive one, exoduses are told. Of course, end of quote. Lacan refers here to the opposition between flight, wandering around without goal, and exodus, when you wander around but with a final…

…between verbal pity and factual cruelty, the honorable souls have discovered the virtues of segregation. Since the beginning of 1970s, Lacan considered segregation as the social fact par excellence, racism being but a sub-case of that general process. End of…

…different forms. And while Bolsheviks certainly loved them, wanted to help and redeem them, they followed the model of what Lacan called university discourse. Proxies were their followers. Object small a, object theta. And they put all their effort into…

…theta. And they put all their effort into enlightening them, into changing them in modern subjects. You know the Lacan scheme of university discourse. University knowledge addresses object a, unaccountable, and the point is to produce modern subject. The…

…a virgin, in a kind of innocence, and so on and so on. I think this, Platonov, is a wonderful example of what Lacan called la langue, language, as this beyond semantic confusion. But what's so beautiful in... Platonov, here I will make a leftist turn,…

…language, as this beyond semantic confusion. But what's so beautiful in... Platonov, here I will make a leftist turn, is that what for Lacan is more some stupid, boring, enjoyous, I cannot stand joyous. I mean, for me, in my Gulag prison, if you are the…

…parts, smooth functioning of these elements of social life not yet swallowed by the capital, can capital function normally. But Lacan precisely opposes non-all and exception. Lacan's point of non-all is not not all or there are exceptions. As you probably…

…the point you finished on yesterday, because you were saying something really interesting about the relationship that this might bear to Lacan and the role of the reno as a symbolic thing within Lacanian theory. I have a separate question about Deacon, but…

…would you agree, I'm here plagiarizing my good friend Alenka Zupancic who pointed out this, how it's clear that, What pushed Lacan from Antigone to Signia de Cufontaine next? Because the moment of her, and I know I'm using a contradictory term, because…

…know what... For example, when you mention the subject and so on and so on, but does not only Miller but even Lacan in his theory. Okay, he says, sometimes Miller speaks like, you know, psychoanalytic discourse, sorry, resist capitalism and so on and so…

…it's a confusion, so that's why we should... Okay, I'll put it in this way. Where, you know, in what sense, even although Lacan has often, even in his very last year, adopted this anti-capitalist rhetoric and so on and so on, but what does this amount…

…has to be structurally, to be real, what rational choice theorists call a state that is necessarily a byproduct. It's the same that Lacan says, I think, about analytic cure. You don't try to cure it. It happens as a byproduct. But we've moved on from…

…this, okay, I'm saying, sorry, sorry, Ninochka joke, you know, coffee without milk, coffee without... My thesis will be that for Lacan, the unconscious has purely this virtual negative status. Like, you know the joke, no? Coffee without milk is not the same…

…ideology today. So, another point... This is why today, and I remember Jacqueline Rose once proposed this formula that what Lacan calls university discourse is this new totalitarian scientific expert discourse. This is for me to date maybe even the…

…be an extremely strong decision that you experience as fate. And here, again, as I developed many times here, Freud and Lacan followed this lesson of Kant, Schelling, and so on, where they claimed that The truly free decisions are unconscious decisions,…

…a leftist Marxist digital journal, which now tens of thousands downloads it gets immediately. There, in the last issue of Lacan, Adrian Johnston published a text, downloaded it, it's a very good quote, Lacan's Endgame, Philosophy, Science and Religion in the…

…published a text, downloaded it, it's a very good quote, Lacan's Endgame, Philosophy, Science and Religion in the Final Seminars of Jacques Lacan. And he does something which I was suspecting a lot of times, but I wasn't... sure about it, how to put it.…

…I was suspecting a lot of times, but I wasn't... sure about it, how to put it. You know that all the late Lacan is obsessed by this idea. First Lacan dismissed imaginary, then even symbolic as another domain of fiction, semblance, and this idea, although…

…I wasn't... sure about it, how to put it. You know that all the late Lacan is obsessed by this idea. First Lacan dismissed imaginary, then even symbolic as another domain of fiction, semblance, and this idea, although it's never so simple with Lacan, but…

…dismissed imaginary, then even symbolic as another domain of fiction, semblance, and this idea, although it's never so simple with Lacan, but basically getting at the pure real. Even, unfortunately, Miller, in his last text, goes into this, that with today's…

…knows something. In his seminars of 87, 88, the last ones, it's really tragic reading. They're very short. If you read them, Lacan, in some sense, breaks down. He claims that, and it's not the same as the Borromean knot, that... our striving to arrive…

…know, Adrian Johnston located something wonderful here. He noticed something very surprising, that in the very last two, three years, Lacan all of a sudden starts to refer... he liked provocatively to mention before dialectical materialism. Now it's all of a…

…They form our reality itself. Our social reality can only reproduce itself through symbolic fictions. Johnston's point is that that's why Lacan all of a sudden refers to historical materialism. In the same way as for Marx, you cannot study pure, real of…

…Marx, you cannot study pure, real of capitalism. You have to include fetishism and all other ideologies. This is why, for Lacan, the final formula, here it assumes its meaning of... Psychoanalysis is no longer traversing the fantasy because this would still…

…let's have a chat. What did you mean by that, identification with the system? No, identification with the symptom. we cannot get and Lacan even writes symptoms not symptoms that not of the real that we have to accept that we are caught in this game of…

…This model of arriving at the pure real is still caught in the trap of the transgressive mode. This is why Lacan already in the next seminar, Desiring Disinterpretation, immediately abandons the logic of his reading of Antigone. In Antigone, traversing the…

…you confront the real, but you cannot remain there. You have to fall back into the game. But the sad thing is that the last Lacan returns to this. So... In what sense? You know, and I made it myself that I didn't get this. You know that the late…

…returns to this. So... In what sense? You know, and I made it myself that I didn't get this. You know that the late Lacan, very late, often uses this term to make use of fictions. He said, we are materialists, but we should... make use of God, make…

…often repeated here, this Lacan's wonderful formula, uh, If God is dead, then nothing is permitted. And Johnston's idea is that Lacan confronted this paradox. If nothing is permitted, then no God kills our desire. Then it's a terrifying universe of total…

…to violate it again and again and so on and so on. And... So, again, what I don't like is this almost cynical version of Lacan. And I remember when I was still on speaking terms with Miller, this was in 2000, I think. We had a friendly debate in Los…

…the idea that I'm too much a philosopher, that I don't know clinics and so on. But I think that this conclusion of Lacan, make use of, play, it's precisely a proof that, now me, us philosophers, strike back, that Lacan was not enough a philosopher. He…

…that this conclusion of Lacan, make use of, play, it's precisely a proof that, now me, us philosophers, strike back, that Lacan was not enough a philosopher. He got caught into this cynical deadlock because he didn't think to the end philosophical…

…philosopher. He got caught into this cynical deadlock because he didn't think to the end philosophical consequences, which are what? Although Lacan knew, that's my suspicion. We may debate it. Some of you may know more. although Lacan knew very well there…

…philosophical consequences, which are what? Although Lacan knew, that's my suspicion. We may debate it. Some of you may know more. although Lacan knew very well there is a wonderful formula in in encore seminar that Le Real at an impasse The real is a…

…let's leave this for tomorrow, because Balibar, I think here, in a wonderful text, makes a fatal mistake. Because he even mentions Lacan, the logic of non-all, but uses it in a traditional sense, like this means something resists. No, no, no. I think the…

…resist capitalism. They have a formula there. No, I think that look for imminent antagonism. But let's go on. So in spite of Lacan knowing this, again and again, Lacan and Miller, when he wrote the text, The Real of 21st Century or whatever, is still…

…there. No, I think that look for imminent antagonism. But let's go on. So in spite of Lacan knowing this, again and again, Lacan and Miller, when he wrote the text, The Real of 21st Century or whatever, is still obsessed with this idea of although…

…I think that this idea that Antigone is transgressive is, I think, a profound misunderstanding. Because in the ethics, Lacan asks, what's the state of Antigonus' act of bearing Polybices? And it's bearing of Atti, transgenerational pre-combination, which…

…pure signifier. But I think, I admit totally that it gets immediately more complex, I think that this is the reason why Lacan immediately, as I often repeat, next year, in his desire and his interpretation, went to Signe de Coufontaine. which is his…

…a model of desire when he says pure desire. But you know when, I often mention this, when in the last page of Seminary 11, Lacan says pure. the desire of the analyst is not a pure desire. I think this is a criticism of this model. But nonetheless, I…

…Zupankic, she only has it in Slovene, wrote a text, now wonderful in Slovene, on Oedipus at Kolonos, where she says how already... Lacan says something wonderful. Was it in Antigone somewhere? He says that there is a deep truth in this that we all have…

…saying? He's not saying, oh, my tragic fate, blah, blah, blah. He's saying, fuck you, I'm not guilty, I didn't want it, and Lacan emphatically agrees with it, you know. No, no, I'm sorry, I don't have more time, but it's so refreshing to return to…

…I think about Sophocles, Oedipus said at Colonus, you know, the biggest luck is not to have been born at all. And then Lacan adds a joke, but very few people succeed this. So I think that this Sophocles wisdom... should be used for abortion propaganda.…

…Perverts do what they dream of brutality and so on, but as all great psychoanalysts, from Freud, the founder, to Lacan, so clearly, perversion is always just the hidden side of power. Perversion is not subversive. While hysterical, feminine position is…

…need the figure of the Jew to maintain its identity? I'm here repeating, most of you know it, my old joke. taken from Lacan when he says, it's a very simple, nice insight, that if you have a pathological husband who is jealous pathologically of his…

…if you have a pathological husband who is jealous pathologically of his wife's infidelity, suspects her to sleep with other men. And Lacan makes a simple, nice point. Even if all his suspicions are true, wife is all the time sleeping around with other…

…I've developed, I'm sorry if you know this line of thought, I developed this in some of my books, namely how I think Lacan has here a perfect answer, that what the sad doesn't get is death. This second, what he imagines as second death, always already…

…because if we follow this line, we remain in this pseudo-Hegelian, because even Hegel sometimes falls into it, even Lacan most of the time. This opposition between homeostatic natural order and then with humanity, another dimension, negativity emerges, and…

…I am. I am not without object. And this I think is I'm now proceeding very fast. This is why for Lacan Subjectivity is as such feminine, hysterical. Lacan is here a good Freudian. Beware of praising perversion. Perversion always perfectly fits discourse…

…And this I think is I'm now proceeding very fast. This is why for Lacan Subjectivity is as such feminine, hysterical. Lacan is here a good Freudian. Beware of praising perversion. Perversion always perfectly fits discourse of power. It's a hidden... The…

…itself which then gets materialized in our human symbolic practices and so on and so on. This is also why for Jacques Lacan, The object cause of desire, object A, is precisely an object which materializes this plus itself. As Lacan put it, object A…

…is also why for Jacques Lacan, The object cause of desire, object A, is precisely an object which materializes this plus itself. As Lacan put it, object A is precisely whenever I grab an object, I always sooner or later experience that this is not what…

…the capitalist fantasy. But we have to be much more specific here. Jacques Lacan's formula of fantasy is subject confronted with what Lacan calls objet A, the object small a, the object cause of desire or surplus enjoyment. And here, the link with Marx is…

…calls objet A, the object small a, the object cause of desire or surplus enjoyment. And here, the link with Marx is crucial. Lacan begins his conversation The 11th week of his seminar, which is a wonderful, ambiguous phrase in French, it can be read as,…

…it. And the other reading, Le Nom du Père, Names of the Father. Okay. At the beginning, in his typical arrogant way, Lacan asks the question, What was it that Lacan, who is here present, invented? He talks like this is typical Lacanian arrogance. And…

…Père, Names of the Father. Okay. At the beginning, in his typical arrogant way, Lacan asks the question, What was it that Lacan, who is here present, invented? He talks like this is typical Lacanian arrogance. And he answers like that to get things going,…

…And he answers like that to get things going, object A. So it's very important. It's not all those phrases well-known of Lacan, unconscious is the desire of the other, the unconscious is structured like a language. He says, Lacan, my great invention is…

…those phrases well-known of Lacan, unconscious is the desire of the other, the unconscious is structured like a language. He says, Lacan, my great invention is object A. Object creation is a long history in Lacan's teaching. But it is Lacan's reference to…

…a long history in Lacan's teaching. But it is Lacan's reference to Marx, especially to Marx's notion of surplus value, that enabled Lacan to deploy his definite notion of object A as surplus enjoyment. And I think it's clear in what way Lacan developed…

…that enabled Lacan to deploy his definite notion of object A as surplus enjoyment. And I think it's clear in what way Lacan developed his absolutely crucial notion of surplus enjoyment with reference to Marx. So what is surplus enjoyment or We can also…

…to Marx. So what is surplus enjoyment or We can also use here Freud's term, Lustgewinn, a gain of pleasure. What does Lacan mean by it? It's not simply stepping up of pleasure, more pleasure, but the additional pleasure provided by the very formal detours…

…get a little bit more complicated. What is this surplus about? It's a very precise paradox. We have many surpluses with Lacan. Surplus enjoyment, surplus knowledge even. surplus value in Marx. I think we even have surplus power in politics. What do I…

…hinted at between the lines is a necessary part of it. What Freud aims at with his notion of gain of pleasure, or what Lacan aims at with surplus enjoyment, is precisely a surplus which is a surplus. And I had other rituals like that. I'm not blaming…

…like that. I'm not blaming women here. So, this process of gaining pleasure gives us the minimum of how desire works for Lacan. It's never desire in its immediate object, but it's the very procedure of attaining the object which of desire, which accounts…

…deformed philosopher, I would immediately say this is the Cartesian subject, no? And already here we have again a unity of Lacan and Marx. A, for Lacan, he says something very surprising. He says that the subject of psychoanalysis, the Freudian subject, is…

…immediately say this is the Cartesian subject, no? And already here we have again a unity of Lacan and Marx. A, for Lacan, he says something very surprising. He says that the subject of psychoanalysis, the Freudian subject, is the Cartesian cogito. So it's…

…perverts... Do openly what hysterics only talk about and dream about. I think the situation is the opposite one. And Lacan has shown this clearly, that perversion is not subversive. Perversion is just the hidden obverse of every... edifice of power.…

…happened. I have no illusions here than the actually existing Europe. Again? Hi. I heard you a second time now talking against Lacan and what he said about hysterics. Yes, I remind you that there are three discourses that serve the master. The master's…

…book, again, a lot of it. But I think that, no, no, no. Where did you find this? It's absolutely clear that Lacan, even precisely in his Seminar 17 and so on, he emphasizes all scientific inventions are hysterical in that nature. Hysteria is...…

…Scientific, I mean. Sorry? No, he's not very liking of that scientific hystericism. Oh, no, wait a minute. No, no. Lacan is not a postmodernist. He absolutely believes science touches the real. From analytic dialectical discourse, not from a hysteric…

…discourse, not from a hysteric discourse. No, okay. I would love to enter this, but nonetheless, again, what is absolutely clear in Lacan, which is for you then the good discourse, the analyst. Analyst, yes. Yeah, but the only way to analyze discourse is…

…quarter turn in perverts discourse. It gets you both ways. It gets you to analyze. No, no, no. But if you read Lacan clinically, closely, he says that to even begin analyzing a pervert, you should hystericize him. Lacan follows here Freud who says in…

…no, no. But if you read Lacan clinically, closely, he says that to even begin analyzing a pervert, you should hystericize him. Lacan follows here Freud who says in a beautiful way, because many people think that perversion is like your unconscious is out…

…way, because many people think that perversion is like your unconscious is out there in the open, you do everything. But Lacan follows Freud who says that nowhere is the unconscious so inaccessible as in perversion. Perversion is a repression at its worst.…

…What I tend to rehabilitate a little bit is master's discourse, if you ask me. I think that today, to horrify you again, we, and Lacan was aware of this, We need a new figure of a master. And master is not, don't confuse master with the one who knows…

…Then I said, listen, but, because at that point I was at a certain conference when Drusilla Cornell ferociously attacked Lacan from Derridean standpoint. I said, but Drusilla Cornell, I appreciate her, but she's openly Derridean, attacking Lacan. And the…

…Cornell ferociously attacked Lacan from Derridean standpoint. I said, but Drusilla Cornell, I appreciate her, but she's openly Derridean, attacking Lacan. And the reply was, no, it doesn't mean anything, she just has to do this for her career. Okay. The…

…basic, this is what I reproach Deconstruction means the work is never done. Analyze more, go on, go on. What I like in Lacan is precisely the idea analysis is not an infinite process. At a certain point, you say, stop, it's over. It's finite. It's not…

…that they understand, but they don't. I know, I've read a couple of... But if paranoia is a form of knowledge, as I believe Lacan says, then I have become very paranoid by this talk today. In a good sense, I hope. Yeah. Now, I want to ask about…

…Marxism, I think, simply doesn't have a theory of the state. And if you want to be Lacanian here, look at the ambiguity of Lacan here. He is even too past... You know, Lacan... formulates the problem, how to break out of the logic of capital, but his…

…the state. And if you want to be Lacanian here, look at the ambiguity of Lacan here. He is even too past... You know, Lacan... formulates the problem, how to break out of the logic of capital, but his only consistent answer is the position of a saint.…

…don't follow this. But for me now, me and my friends wrote books on it. When you say not all, but not all for Lacan does not mean that there is something outside. Not all means there is no exception. Lacan is very clear here. Lacan's non-all, the…

…you say not all, but not all for Lacan does not mean that there is something outside. Not all means there is no exception. Lacan is very clear here. Lacan's non-all, the second part of non-all is there is no exception. And I think this is the whole…

…part of non-all is there is no exception. And I think this is the whole point. That's why I think, for example, when Lacan speaks about feminine sexuality, he is totally misread as if not all of women are not totally integrated into symbolic, part of…

…and so on and so on. So we would have to go very deep into this topic. And it's a very contested topic. What did Lacan exactly mean by non-all? And here, if you want, the other guy mentioned this. Yes, I am in some sense critical of Lacan in the…

…did Lacan exactly mean by non-all? And here, if you want, the other guy mentioned this. Yes, I am in some sense critical of Lacan in the sense that, and he admits it, if you really read closely his last seminars, very last, where the whole seminar is…

…out. For example, knots, all those grafts, and so on. And at the end, in a very tragic way, he admits a failure. So Lacan is very unfinished in the sense that Tragically open thinker. This is why I disagree with those Lacanians who are looking in last…

…is very unfinished in the sense that Tragically open thinker. This is why I disagree with those Lacanians who are looking in last Lacan for some secret, you know. What did he whisper when he was dying? Was there some final wisdom? No, it's much more…

…go into it, but it's a wonderful topic. Can I just point out just one little thing you said? Because I love puns and Lacan said, you said the thing Lacan left is Lacan's not. Okay, yes, but you know that in his last seminars he precisely denounced not…

…wonderful topic. Can I just point out just one little thing you said? Because I love puns and Lacan said, you said the thing Lacan left is Lacan's not. Okay, yes, but you know that in his last seminars he precisely denounced not as a false way. He…

…a false way. He totally rejects it. At the very end. And I think the whole problem is first even to formulate what was Lacan struggling with in the last 10 years of his life. But that's okay. Sorry, sorry. I would love to go into this dogmatic…

…Marx at a much higher conceptual level, and so on. Because I think that the more fundamental problem of Marx, and Lacan was aware of it, is that Marxian notion of communism is nonetheless... a dream of keeping capitalism without the capitalist object.…

…of communism without its obstacle. And this is, for me, the absolutely crucial element of what Marx calls, sorry, what Lacan calls, surplus enjoyment. That it's the constitutive obstacle. It's something that apparently is an obstacle, but you take away the…

…back again, you are indestructible. And the first time this was developed, as far as I know, was in Marquis de Sade. As Lacan pointed out, look at Juliet. she's tortured terribly, but in the next scene she comes again back with all her beauty and so…

…not mean we just sit behind and do nothing. But we should be more than ever aware of the risks. Let me enter in some Lacan languages. Yes, sorry, in that sense you mean. Yes, yes, yes. At the same time, which is the... Ah, yes, but, okay, I'll put…

…it's not that you as a self are active. It's something acts through you. You know, to use these kitschy words, which even Lacan sometimes uses, something in me more than myself is acting through me, and so on. So, we have different versions, but this…

…that, first, that the problem here is not to approach it at this level. Because, again, you know my old joke here, the Lacan that I always quote. My inspiration is here, Lacan who wrote somewhere already in his early years, I think, that even if... If…

…it at this level. Because, again, you know my old joke here, the Lacan that I always quote. My inspiration is here, Lacan who wrote somewhere already in his early years, I think, that even if... If a husband is pathologically jealous of his wife,…

…natural, to assume our nature, let's also do the horrible things, to put it very simply. But then, at a certain point, as Lacan emphasizes, the sad saw something in a very intelligent way. He saw that in this way we still remain slaves of nature. We…

…short, suspend the very circle of natural causality. And here comes... It's more complex, but basically, Lacan's genius, I claim. Because Lacan claims that what Sade didn't do, he was still too empirical, is that Sade calls this radical negativity the second…

…circle of life and death, but the death in the sense of the interruption of this eternal circle itself. So, according to Lacan, it's a beautiful, simple formulation. I quote it, I think, in my Disparities book. Lacan says what Sade didn't see is that…

…this eternal circle itself. So, according to Lacan, it's a beautiful, simple formulation. I quote it, I think, in my Disparities book. Lacan says what Sade didn't see is that second death doesn't come after the first death, like we just are born and die,…

…insofar as we are caught in the symbolic order, which is the order of death, drive, and so on and so on. And... For Lacan, this second death is simply the condition of human desire. Human desire is precisely free in the sense that it's no longer caught…

…desire is precisely free in the sense that it's no longer caught into the natural rhythm. And here comes second move by Kant for Lacan to establish that if we read the sad in this way, Second death, that in this sense, Sade has to be read with…

…Now, the distinction between Kant and, sorry, between Kant and Sade, and the limit of Sade, sorry, of Kant for Lacan, is that for Sade, for Kant, sorry, our sexuality cannot reach this level. Our sexuality is totally empirically predetermined. You…

…passion is empirical, pathological, not in ordinary sense. Pathological means for Kant conditioned by contingent empirical objects. But as Lacan points out, But not only true passion does meet this criteria, but a specific human perversion is that precisely…

…on windows, so that at least in this way he risks his life and does something aggressive. You know, so again, for Lacan, the sad, sexual... This Sadean second crime is a proof that sexuality also not only can be non-pathological, but in its basic…

…of a sudden disgust enters, and so on. This brings us to Lacan's definition of the sublime, where the sublime is, as Lacan puts it, is an ordinary object, thing, elevated to the level of the thing, the absolute object. But this sublime, identification of…

…the one of exception out of multitude. But there is another version, which I much prefer, it's much closer to what Lacan describes as feminine, that you have, this is what Alenka describes with Lacan's terms, the repression of the binary signifier. We…

…dominant, that's why we should not assert our identity. This self-humiliation, renouncing your particular identity, obviously produced what Jacques Lacan calls a plus de jouir, a surplus enjoyment, a kind of libidinal profit, which is precisely the fact that…

…I like to repeat. I'm sorry if you heard it. I think it's extremely useful precisely today. This Lacan's Jacques Lacan, my psychoanalytic teacher, paradoxical statement, very precise, that imagine... I'm sorry for the male chauvinist twist of this statement.…

…jealous of his wife, obsessed with the idea that she's all the time sleeping around with other men and so on. And Lacan says something wonderful. He says... His jealousy is pathological, even if everything that he says is true about his wife. Why? Simply…

…some kind of object of desire for others, but I don't know what they see in me. This uncertainty, ontological, is, for Freud, Lacan, and so on, constitutive of subjectivity. The moment you think you know what you are, you are not a subject, you are an…

…the Freudian idea is, no, it's again, objects, objects, objects, plus. And you have this plus over all objects, particular, becomes for Lacan a specific object. He calls objects molle, the object cause of desire. So, let me give you... Give me. Who are…

…It's so pretentious. Yes. I mean this idea of 400 years people will have to... And I know I'm going here against Lacan. Okay, but let me convince you what I like about Beckett. For a partisan of standard Marxist notion of concrete analysis... The…

…it to you. Second aspect of abstract subjectivity is that, but Lacan's position is not. Here is a great difference between Lacan and Alain Badiou. Badiou's formula is subject without object. She uses it. For Lacan, there is no subject without object. Every…

…not. Here is a great difference between Lacan and Alain Badiou. Badiou's formula is subject without object. She uses it. For Lacan, there is no subject without object. Every subjectivity has to rely on object, ultimately on object, cause of desire. I will…

…nobody? You know what is right here? This idea that to be a nobody implies... You should ask, and this is what Lacan calls surplus enjoyment object. What particular libidinal profit do you get precisely from proclaiming yourself a nobody? Now I will give…

…about an empty subject as it were hanging in the air. This subject, I admitted that the operation of subjectivity is... Lacan, Hegel used this metaphor. You know... how to translate it into English, this Baron Munchausen stories about how he's almost…

…asking for a new, better master, while perverts go to the end. They do it, what hysterics only dream about. For Lacan, no, it's the opposite. As he emphasizes, perversion is always the other opposite side of the power structure itself. Ultimately, there…

…deconstructionist. Hysterical questioning is, but why am I what you are telling me that I am? And this is why Lacan says very clearly that even in science, university discourse University discourse is the classification of science. Moments of scientific…

…very excess in desire over every object. Which we can also see, I don't have time to go into it now, why for Lacan... The crucial source in his work of surplus enjoyment is Marxist surplus value. That is to say, how... the very surplus over objectivity…

…proud of it. And that's why we welcome immigrants. You are the real cowards. Okay, let's go on. So I said Judith Butler, Lacan, subjectivity. What does this mean? This will be, I warn you, a little bit more theoretical. Recently I reread that, I call it…

…cannot but appear as an ahistorical, transcendental a priori, indifferent to political struggles for hegemony, because that's her... Reproach to Lacan. Lacan remains a Kantian, you know, like the Kantian bar that separates phenomena from the in itself. A part…

…but appear as an ahistorical, transcendental a priori, indifferent to political struggles for hegemony, because that's her... Reproach to Lacan. Lacan remains a Kantian, you know, like the Kantian bar that separates phenomena from the in itself. A part is a…

…try to explain it. It is a philosophical topic. First, I think that... Butler tries to play the card of historicism. Like Lacan is a Kantian ahistoricist, then there's an a priori bar which excludes something. But no, every bar which excludes something can…

…have time to go further into it, but I would have said, my point here would have been that, in this sense, when Lacan speaks about a divided subject, he's raising a much more subtle point. His point is... Of course, everything changes. We have different…

…situation. It's the forum of, how should I put it, The form of home or being rooted in something itself is excluded. What Lacan calls... This is why Miller developed this nicely long ago when he was still a good theorist. When... He says that the…

…is this. incomplete one. As Alenka Zupancic put it, the formula of sexual difference for me is not MF, masculine, feminine. When Lacan says there is no sexual relationship, he doesn't mean and Don't think that I'm stupid. Here the confusion will be on…

…It's not men are from Venus, women are from Mars, which I think is much more true. But what I'm saying is that when Lacan says there is no sexual relationship, he doesn't mean masculine and feminine are in eternal struggle and so on and so on. No,…

…like question and answer. What is sex? Sex is the incontinence of the void. But you know what's the problem here of Lacan? How to think sexual difference by... on the one way, avoiding this simple constructionism, there is no fixed identity there, just…

…there is no fixed identity there, just this Judith Butler version, but also how to avoid any substantial duality. And I think that... Lacan shows up a path here, which also, again, opens up a new perspective on transgender and so on. Again, believe me or…

…it nowhere. This would be the platonic real, almost. The real as an idea. This is crucial. This is why real is for Lacan very fragile. It can break down at any moment. For example, let's give you a disgusting example. Because you didn't get my usual…

…from now because it's too complex. This is a very complex question because you must know how complex already it is with Lacan. Because although all the effort in some of his late seminars is to move beyond subjectivity of capital, but the only formula…

…move beyond subjectivity of capital, but the only formula that he provides is the same. And the position of a saint is for Lacan, saint as excrement out of this circulation. But I claim that with today's late capitalism, I wonder if even this works or…

…Miller. No. Where I agree with my book there is that I refer to Miller... You know, with all that stuff written about Lacan and four discourses and capitalism, there is a long debate of capitalist discourse, which of them it is. There are a couple of…

…debate of capitalist discourse, which of them it is. There are a couple of versions. As you know probably better than me, Lacan tried to, at some point, he was tempted by conceptualizing as the fifth discourse, master but with places changed. then for…

…on. Symptoms as such don't directly define psychosis. the mental state and so on. Where things get really paradoxical is when Lacan, okay, he often flirted with these extreme formulations, but he somewhere says that normality is just a successful version of…

…Where is Lenin? And the guy said, Lenin is in Warsaw, you know, that's why she's doing this here. This is what Lacan means by Vorstellungsrepresentant. Something is, the title doesn't name the content of the image, but that which has to be excluded so…

…emerges in a contingent way. Once a thing happens, it retroactively creates its own conditions and becomes necessary. This is what Lacan, Jacques Lacan, referred to as the future anterior of the unconscious, which will have been. While Blank Chance is full…

…a contingent way. Once a thing happens, it retroactively creates its own conditions and becomes necessary. This is what Lacan, Jacques Lacan, referred to as the future anterior of the unconscious, which will have been. While Blank Chance is full of direct…

…by a drug. No problem. The next scene is the obscene undeadness. You go on. You know who was the first, as Jacques Lacan developed so nicely in his classic text, Comte avec Sade, Comte with Sade? It's the universe of Marquis de Sade, where the victim…

…encounter of the enigma the subject encounters, in this case the child's enigma of the other's desire, in this case parents'. As Lacan put it, the subject answers the enigma of the other's desire. What does the other, my parents, want from me? What am…

…is realized. The children imagine themselves as and from this position question their parents' desire. What then is this gaze? When Lacan defines the Freudian drive as reflexive, as the stance of se faire, visual drive, is not the drive to live, to…

…contrast to the desire to see, the desire, drive is a desire to make oneself seen, and so on. I think that Lacan thereby points towards the most elementary theatricality of the human conditions. Our fundamental striving is not to observe, but to be part…

…Kantian thing in itself or something out of symbolic order, just some wild abyss of chaos, whatever. The real is for me, as Lacan puts it so beautifully in Encore, I think, Le real est un impasse de formalisation, or whatever. The real exists, is totally…

…have some failure in nature and then we get language and so on and so on. It's imminent. That's for me the greatest of Lacan, to see this, to see this, how failure, how, even this is how I read Lacan's definition of subject. I was improvising about…

…I think, defines the coordinates of today's consumerism, which provides a clear case of the Distinction elaborated by Jacques Lacan between pleasure, pleasure and jouissance, intense enjoyment. On the one hand, we have the consumerist calculation of pleasures.…

…ultimately pre-modern, naive realism? I will not bore you with this. Read my last books. I claim On the path of Hegel, reading Hegel through Lacan and so on and so on, we can find a unique, original way here, a way which does the job. To put it very…

…know who did this, I think both Aztecs or Incas, Who saw that? It's not as simple as that. You know, Jacques Lacan noticed somewhere. What's so surprising about those rituals that they have with human sacrifices and so on? For what were they sacrificed?…

…again, what hysterical subjects only dream about in an ambiguous way. this version. Hysteria is the position of questioning. And Lacan and Freud already, they never, through psychoanalysis, never dismiss feminine hysteria as, you know, a man should come to…

…unconscious there. No, he says, nowhere is our unconscious more hidden, inaccessible, than in perversion. First result. Second result. As Lacan puts it nicely, far from being subversive, Okay, sometimes this supplement comes open like you in the United States…

…subjectivity, in contrast to those who think man is hysterical self-questioning is, as it were, the origin of subjectivity. And Lacan makes it this clear when, in his different discourses, you know, Master, University, Observation, Analyst, he claims that only…

…discourses, it is clear that we have the male couple, master, and... the feminine couple, hysteric and analyst. But remember, for Lacan, it's not that the analyst is the ultimate goal. The analyst is basically non-productive. The analyst is just a stupid…

…end well. But that's the formula. The formula can even be, I'm running with an ex after you, cheating, whatever. That's what Lacan means with there is no sexual relationship. It does not mean this tragic sense, you know, it's always a romantic catastrophe…

…very unfortunately, a pervert does it in reality what a hysterical subject only dreams about. This is deeply wrong for Freud, Lacan, and all proper analysts. Hysteria is truly subversive. Perversion is simply the dark other side of power. Every power edifice…