…fucking with three men, with a dog, no problem. But this is the touchy point. This is the true unconscious tiny detail. What Lacan means by symptom, not the symptom, but that condensed response. And in a way, all that, tell all the dirty things and so…

…in late 60s, early 70s, French journals published a proclamation, public call, signed by all big names, Charter, Foucault, not Lacan, goes to his honor, Althusser named them, claiming that incest and child sex should, the prohibition should be abolished, that…

…ask this crucial question. Are you meant to be horrified by the victim? How does it work? Or is it secret enjoyment? As Lacan said, we are always responsible for our enjoyment. Thank you. Join Jacqueline. I would like to respond to someone, but I realize…

…It's some kind of privileged role. You wouldn't say that about many other things. Yeah, but it's more or less, that's what Lacan at his best emphasizes. The truly great analyst appears at the end to disappear, not to remain a charismatic product, but…

…me is some conceptual test. I'm very naive here, and I think that ultimately, I hope we agree here, Freud is... Absolutely, and Lacan, against this vulgar form of dis-ablimation in the sense of it's all really about sex and so on and so on. No, Lacan…

…against this vulgar form of dis-ablimation in the sense of it's all really about sex and so on and so on. No, Lacan absolutely believes that there are spiritual forms which should not be reduced in this vulgar way to some sexual desires. Like, Lacan…

…believes that there are spiritual forms which should not be reduced in this vulgar way to some sexual desires. Like, Lacan explodes when you tell him that Feminine spirituality, in the sense of being a non-convent feminine mysticism, should absolutely not…

…effectively moves beyond the master and his law, while the hysteric merely provokes the master. Against this view, Freud and Lacan consistently emphasize that perversion, far from being subverted, is the hidden obverse of power. Every power needs perversion as…

…crucial details things. but not talk about them. And they are not the mega secrets or whatever. They are just what Lacan calls symptoms, basic formations of elementary excessive enjoyment which should remain unspoken. So again, I'm sorry, I claim that's why…

…answers, but two questions that we should confront. And I will try to make... some preliminary steps into this direction. Today, Lacan, as we all know, often, Jacques Lacan, often refers to three of these topological models that you see behind my back.…

…confront. And I will try to make... some preliminary steps into this direction. Today, Lacan, as we all know, often, Jacques Lacan, often refers to three of these topological models that you see behind my back. Mediastrip, crosscap, and the Klein bottle.…

…series of novels, The Dark Tower. Why do I find it attractive? Because it relies on a beautifully naive vision of what Lacan calls plan de capitaine, the quilting point. A mysterious black tower which sutures our reality and thereby holds it together. If…

…two. Mediastrips, they are held together precisely by something like dark tower, which is, I think, a naive image of, again, what Lacan calls the quilting point, point de capitone. And this is the function of suturing. And to get an idea of... Why…

…Or, as even Freud somewhere says in a wrong way, I think, that perverts actually do what hysterics only dream about. Lacan, that goes to his profit and even feminist profit, radically opposes this version. For him, yes, perversion is predominantly masculine.…

…There is even a great debate in psychoanalysis in what specific sense we can talk about feminine perversion. But for Lacan... Perversion, and this is so important today in our freakish time when all this perverted, hidden, obscene underside is becoming…

…underside is becoming public in our political discourse. Perversion is the necessary dark side, obverse side of power structure. Lacan says every political power structure needs a pervert to be its instrument. And it's hysteria, not perversion, which is…

…we always miss the object, object is always eluding us, it's some impossible incestuous object. No, as it is clear with Lacan, already in early Lacan, seminar on psychosis, Lacan The original lost object, it's me, the subject myself as object. The original…

…object, object is always eluding us, it's some impossible incestuous object. No, as it is clear with Lacan, already in early Lacan, seminar on psychosis, Lacan The original lost object, it's me, the subject myself as object. The original question of desire…

…eluding us, it's some impossible incestuous object. No, as it is clear with Lacan, already in early Lacan, seminar on psychosis, Lacan The original lost object, it's me, the subject myself as object. The original question of desire is not this boring…

…something and then he does all possible things to blur it and so on and so on. But I still think that Kant was, that Lacan was right when he says at the beginning of his writing Kant avec Sade, he says something very important. He says that In this…

…know, is something that we can perhaps still look at. I'm thinking about the notion of, well, at least one point in Lacan where he, I suppose, maybe pausing around that notion of determinacy with regard to the Amelie Zand, and of course he's... Sorry,…

…maybe pausing around that notion of determinacy with regard to the Amelie Zand, and of course he's... Sorry, about a point in Lacan when he talks about or perhaps avoids talking about determinacy from the point of view of the analysand. And he speaks, of…

…is wrong here? Oh, I don't have time here to go into psychoanalysis, but I think it's a wonderful... Case of what Jacques Lacan called objectita, the object, small a, what Lacan calls the object of desire. How do you fall in love usually? I mean, this…

…to go into psychoanalysis, but I think it's a wonderful... Case of what Jacques Lacan called objectita, the object, small a, what Lacan calls the object of desire. How do you fall in love usually? I mean, this is even an empirical fact some sexologists…

…Yeah, but vorsichtiger, but at the same time ready to take risks. You have to take risks. You know, it's what Jacques Lacan says about psychoanalytica. You cannot be in your psychoanalytic practice. You cannot be covered by any rules. At a certain point,…

…who absolutely wanted to keep away from philosophy. He saw it even as a danger for psychoanalysis, his connection with philosophy. And Lacan was even more adamant. In one of his famous pronouncements, he says, Je me surge contre la philosophie. I raise up…

…enjoyment, surplus enjoyment, is put into analogy with Marx's notion of surplus value. So, philosophical references abound. There is no Lacan without philosophical references. And, of course, there is a paradox, and I think that Lacan, on the one hand,…

…philosophical references abound. There is no Lacan without philosophical references. And, of course, there is a paradox, and I think that Lacan, on the one hand, opposed philosophy as a unitary field, as a totality, But by opposing this unitary field of…

…is this event and why? Because, okay, there are still, nevertheless, many people who work in some sense with both fields, and Lacan did inspire quite some philosophical readings, and I think basically what I... tried to do in this book with this emphasis…

…you look into how philosophy usually if it does so adapts or appropriates psychoanalysis it can more or less digest everything and in Lacan there are lots of things like this from this notion of the concept of the other or of truth, of the subjectivity…

…of psychoanalysis, it is ontology, the word that is usually, I mean, that psychoanalysis doesn't really know what to do with, and Lacan had some kind of really harsh words. for ontology being the discourse of the master. So I really tried to not really…

…kind of... So these were this kind of abstract stakes that Mladen mentioned and basically the argument there is that for Lacan what is interesting is that ontology as this science of being, co-being, comes with a certain price. This would be this…

…not fully being. And the importance of this negativity of this something is precisely that while not being fully being, and Lacan calls this the real being, as different from being precisely, it nevertheless affects the laws of being and its appearing. So…

…Like it is really, jouissance is there. And so it's never just... MF. This is one of the ways to read what Lacan says about there is no sexual relationship or sexual difference. It's not difference between the sexes. It's something... The difference is…

…of the affair which kind of fits all kinds of social and other fantasies so yeah it is not only my achievement I guess that Lacan already I mean the formulas of sexuality I mean the Where can you get more abstract or more kind of deep into the logic…

…more abstract or more kind of deep into the logic and mathematics than with sex? I mean, this is somehow already written into Lacan. But I think it is important not simply to reduce it to this point of impasse and impossibility, which, however, as such,…

…Already indicated that crucial for Lacan's notion of surplus enjoyment enjoyment found in the very renunciation to enjoyment you know Lacan always proclaimed that anxiety is authentic okay but all the topic of sacrifice there was something fake in it for…

…know Lacan always proclaimed that anxiety is authentic okay but all the topic of sacrifice there was something fake in it for Lacan there is always a secret surplus enjoyment in renunciation itself so I would maybe like to give you one simple example,…

…way, give body to some deeper personal guilt, fear, or whatever. So I claim, again... Here you can understand in what sense Lacan turns around the term sublimation. In usual way, sublimation means you take some vulgar drive, fear, and you sublimate it. But…

…means you take some vulgar drive, fear, and you sublimate it. But no, the logic should be the opposite one, as Lacan points out. The true sublimation can be, for example, a venereal disease itself. When you have some more fundamental anxiety, which…

…don't know which chapter in which of my books, but the point is that this notion made history, it's a wonderful example how first, Lacan uses it not only one time that I thought, he uses it two times, two, three times before, but not as a term, more…

…you have to suture it, precisely, to close the field. But here, things get complicated. complicated because if you read clearly Lacan especially if you combine Lacan with German idealism and so on and so on that's the lesson of Kantian transcendentalism is…

…precisely, to close the field. But here, things get complicated. complicated because if you read clearly Lacan especially if you combine Lacan with German idealism and so on and so on that's the lesson of Kantian transcendentalism is that this future which…

…is the mega discovery of junk object it's incredible how ignored it is that the structure of this antinomies fits precisely even Lacan didn't know it so I'm not criticizing others not to be Lacanian I'm just shocked how even Lacanians ignore this how the…

…point what should here or one could here introduce Lacan's distinction between enunciated, what I'm explicitly claiming, and what Lacan calls the position of enunciation, the position from which I speak in the everyday capitalist servitude volontaire. I…

…mostly because it's the stuff from my next book. Okay. I want to say this. To translate it directly into Lacanian terms, what Lacan calls point de capiton, the quilting point, where the two levels mix in a point. This would be This would be maybe a…

…cut. In the sense that you cannot even clearly define it. So against this accusation of binary logic and so on, what Lacan means by sexual difference is precisely that it's a kind of an obstacle cart which you cannot clearly defy. Sexual difference means…

…difference is precisely that it's a kind of an obstacle cart which you cannot clearly defy. Sexual difference means precisely for Lacan that at the phenomenal level of our self-experience, you cannot say, I'm purely man, I'm purely woman, and so on. All…

…I will repeat some old jokes. It's, of course, that of the two lines signifier and signified. The whole point of what Lacan calls the quilting point, point de capitaine, is that At a certain point, signifier has to fall into the signified. I mean,…

…the moment of truth, they must suffer some ultra-anxiety and so on. That's the beauty. I think that this is the greatness of Lacan. In one of my early books, I tried to read... It was a provocation, of course. When I was looking for progressive…

…heterosexuality. I think that the good point of the film is that and the novel is that it accepts this as a genuine position. And Lacan explicitly says that, for example, to be a, how do you call it, women priest, a nun, a nun, that to be a nun is…

…and I am returning to them. Don't you see that behind all my jokes and so on? Even the reason I even use Lacan is strictly as a means to reinterpret Hegel. I'm very old-fashioned here. My friend, we don't think the same. Congratulations, Robert Pippin.…

…only a very condensed version. The idea came to me and to my good friend Jock Kovchek that The structure... You know, Lacan, in his Seminar XX, encore, on feminine jouissons and some others, develops his famous or infamous formulas of sexuation. He wants…

…sexuality through some logical paradoxes, universality with exception, and so on. And John Kovjic originally came to this idea that what... Lacan is describing there, and he wasn't aware of it, I checked with his people who knew Lacan, are the very…

…idea that what... Lacan is describing there, and he wasn't aware of it, I checked with his people who knew Lacan, are the very structures of Kantian antinomies. Dynamic antinomies are what Lacan calls masculine, mathematical antinomies are what Lacan calls...…

…I checked with his people who knew Lacan, are the very structures of Kantian antinomies. Dynamic antinomies are what Lacan calls masculine, mathematical antinomies are what Lacan calls... So, of course, I'm not talking about biological sexuality. I'm talking…

…Lacan, are the very structures of Kantian antinomies. Dynamic antinomies are what Lacan calls masculine, mathematical antinomies are what Lacan calls... So, of course, I'm not talking about biological sexuality. I'm talking about why our universe, even the most…

…it, and so on. In the second part of the book, I go into detail in detail of this parallel between what Lacan calls surplus enjoyment, the additional twist in enjoyment which changes simple pleasure in what we usually call, in more emphatic terms,…

…we take Freud seriously, all the topic of unease, unbehagen in culture and so on, sexuality as such prohibits this. This is what Jacques Lacan means, I simplify it very much now of course, when he says il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel, there is no sexual…

…the miracle happened for us. This was the formative experience of my youth. The explosion of so-called French structuralism. Lévi-Strauss, Foucault, Lacan, Althusser, all of them. And for us this was like... We get out of that closed space. And it was a…

…felt threatened by this new French way and ferociously attacked it. And then we needed a couple of years to... discover Lacan and precisely because we were nonetheless, me and my friend, trained in this German continental philosophy where you see What…

…subjectivity is not something that you can reduce to some ideological effect and so on and so on. And here Lacan enters. We immediately discover that against all others, Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, who diminished subject to some imaginary effect of…

…against all others, Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, who diminished subject to some imaginary effect of some deeper structural processes, with Lacan you have what was... For all others, impossible to think. Structure with the subject. The subject is there.…

…And I think we were productive there. And second, our big obsession. It will sound horrible to say this, but for us, Lacan was a means to read Hegel, to attack the big philosophical questions. So this doesn't mean we in any way dismissed actual…

…Sacrifice in permissivity or sacrifice on account of the divine fundamentalism. If there is no God, then everything is permitted. Jacques Lacan, as probably many of you know, turned this wisdom around. For him, it is exactly the opposite. If there is no…

…is no God, then everything is prohibited. Or, if there is God, then everything is permitted. And I think it's clear what Lacan meant. On the one hand, imagine a religious fundamentalist. Isn't it that for him, precisely because he perceives himself as a…

…this conversation is usually pretty intellectual. They ask you, one customer, he admitted to me, he told me he was asked about Jacques Lacan even. And if they are satisfied with this, then they tell you, okay, that's my price. If you want, we go to my…

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

…again, an ingenious theoretician, one of the few in the last 50 years. After that big wave of French structuralism, Deleuze, Lacan, he's one of the three, four, maybe five, not five figures who really did something new. It's Ernesto, then another one…

…excessive enjoyment. Enjoyment... if you allow me to improvise a little bit here, enjoyment is for me something, like for Lacan, very paradoxical. It's not the same as pleasure. Enjoyment is, even usually enjoyment in pain, enjoyment is how through pain…

…the cart, and then leave it there. This is a nice example of pure surplus enjoyment without pleasure. That's what... Lacan means by surplus enjoyment. Enjoyment in a way, enjoyment in procedure itself. The process itself provides enjoyment. And our sexuality…

…know. So it was more to remind himself, be careful, don't enjoy here too much. And this eating in this sense is what Lacan calls object small a, the surplus enjoyment. That it's necessary? Like, if you directly make love, if you directly go to sex, it…

…kilos too much away, you don't get perfect body. You get something totally non-interesting. You see my logic. This is what Lacan calls surplus enjoyment. You add something. which ruins the full pleasure. But through ruining it, it creates the phantom of…

…of full pleasure. And here, I'm so sorry we don't have time to go into it because all my fun is here. Here, Lacan enters. Lacanian analysis in a specific way which I see as connected with... connected with Hegelian dialectics. Why? An example that I…

…you coffee, but it claims it's coffee without milk, and so on. This abstract spectral element is absolutely crucial. Element called by Lacan, objects, and so on. Another way to approach this Pleasures and so on. You know where enjoyment is inscribed in our…

…When you are not, you are universal where you protest your particular identity. Which is why the universal subject, as Lacan, Jacques Lacan saw it clearly, and here you have a link between politics and psychoanalysis, the universal subject is hysterical…

…are not, you are universal where you protest your particular identity. Which is why the universal subject, as Lacan, Jacques Lacan saw it clearly, and here you have a link between politics and psychoanalysis, the universal subject is hysterical subject. What…

…you imagine some stupid students of mine? Why stupid? Because they told me, oh, professor, you convinced me with your knowledge of Lacan. Would you accept me... As your patient, you know. Well, my answer is always double. First, if you think I could be…

…it is really pleasant to hear how he uses a concrete universal, a determined denial, or the difference between pleasure and enjoyment in Lacan, and to give it a political, acute and at the same time funny use. In this talk he has also put into play…

…one of the participants attacked me that I underestimate the... the... that I... underestimate the role of transcendent realism in Lacan. Now, I didn't quite get what this would mean, no? I thought transcendent realism, like reality exists and is transcendent…

…the beauty. This was the clumsy retranslation back into English of surrealism. They translated surreal, transcendent, implement in young Lacan, reference to Dali, all those guys were crucial. But, okay, that's another question. What I'm saying is that there…

…colleague. I don't fully agree with him, but he has many good points. Samo Tomsic, in his book on Marx and Lacan, he insists on capitalism. He tries to deploy systematically, out of different fragments in Lacan's work, something like Lacanian reading of…

…political economy. And his basic point is a strict parallel between what Marx calls mervert, surplus value, and between what Lacan calls plus de juir, surplus. Mehr Genuss, surplus enjoyment. In other words, capitalism is something unique. It's not just one…

…of the car and out drops a corpse. So you see the point. Where did the corpse come from? I think this is what Lacan calls... Object small a, the surplus object. It comes from nowhere. And it's nice that, don't forget if you are a good Marxist, that…

…And I think this corpse is somehow the surplus value, the surplus produced here. And so this, again, would have been what Lacan calls... A surplus which is totally non-substantial but comes by. And there are many paradoxes to account for this. For example,…

…told her, just don't try to lose that one or two kilos. Because, you know, this would be maybe the best example of what Lacan calls surplus enjoyment. Look, you appear as if you have one or two kilos too much. But this ideal of beauty, my God, how…

…you should... find in many movie stories and in real life this, let's call it, function of object A. And the same goes for Lacan, generally for libidinal economy. Another story, which I hope you don't know it, I quote it a couple of times in my book…

…most terrifying example of this surplus enjoyment. You should watch it. It's terrifying, but such a supreme example of what Lacan meant by surplus enjoyment. Joseph Goebbels, you know, in 43, after Stalingrad defeat of Germany, his famous speech in Berlin…

…of life, is not... Simply cultural features, you know, religion, customs, and so on. But precisely, and we are back at Lacan, what Lacan called jouissance. Jouissance Excessive enjoyment as a way to organize a social life. In Lacanian meaning of this term,…

…is not... Simply cultural features, you know, religion, customs, and so on. But precisely, and we are back at Lacan, what Lacan called jouissance. Jouissance Excessive enjoyment as a way to organize a social life. In Lacanian meaning of this term, le real,…

…is cut and sliced into pieces, run over by a rollover. In the next scene, you cannot die. Always you return. And as Lacan pointed out in Count of Exad, Exactly the same feature you find in Sadean fantasy. Juliet is tortured again and again, always…

…is let's say, a focus on form, a focus on legalization and on formalization, mathematization. And you know the work of Badiou. Lacan also is stressing enormously the role of formalization. And he, for instance, Lacan takes up what Plato says in the Mennon…

…mathematization. And you know the work of Badiou. Lacan also is stressing enormously the role of formalization. And he, for instance, Lacan takes up what Plato says in the Mennon on... where Plato promises to deal with the issue of value. And people…

…let's say, we need formalization. And so that's one thing I don't see you do immediately, to focus like Badiou does, or like Lacan does, on formalization. So that's perhaps a small question of why is that not your focus. And... in what sense it can be…

…The formalist approach of the modern sciences was purely formalist. So do we need a new mathematical writing? That is actually what Lacan is proposing. Perhaps other forms of writing. So that's the first issue in relation to form. The second issue is more…

…questions. I mean, it's for another talk. Let me go like this. You know that I always find first Kant, sorry, not Lacan, Not ambiguous here, but much more delicate on the one hand, and that's the greatness of Lacan. He totally rejects this traditional…

…Kant, sorry, not Lacan, Not ambiguous here, but much more delicate on the one hand, and that's the greatness of Lacan. He totally rejects this traditional idea of putting the Freudian unconscious along the line of Schopenhauer, Lebenswelt, all those…

…line of Schopenhauer, Lebenswelt, all those irrationalists, and so on and so on. It has nothing to do with this. As Lacan puts it emphatically, The Freudian subject, the subject of the unconscious, is the Cartesian cogito. It's a very clear statement. And…

…subject, the subject of the unconscious, is the Cartesian cogito. It's a very clear statement. And so here I think Lacan is radically opposed to all those emerging in Lebenswelt, light world, you know, all those simple oppositions. A Kantian subject,…

…we should never forget that we are part of a certain living world and so on and so on. No, but for Lacan, unconscious is on the side, if you want, of rational abstraction against life world. Unconscious is some drive which destabilizes the stability…

…and so on. But you know how, if we were really to go into this topic, my starting point would have been this one. Lacan says, yes, the subject of the unconscious is Cartesian cosito, modern science, but you know, I'm sure better than me, that at the…

…subject of the unconscious is Cartesian cosito, modern science, but you know, I'm sure better than me, that at the same time, Lacan says that the discourse of science is based on verwerfung. Foreclosure, which is not a good translation, but let's call it…

…a same-thinking statement should be repeatable, valid for whoever... announces it, and so on, and so on. While for Lacan, nonetheless, the dimension of psychoanalysis is, in this sense, the dimension of subjective truth, not the dimension of objective…

…of my talk, what antagonisms does Hitler need to obliterate that are projected into the figure of the Jew? So all this for Lacan, although he oscillates a little bit, for Lacan is... I don't see how this dimension of reference, to put it in Lacanian…

…obliterate that are projected into the figure of the Jew? So all this for Lacan, although he oscillates a little bit, for Lacan is... I don't see how this dimension of reference, to put it in Lacanian terms, to subject of enunciation, my truth position,…

…put it in Lacanian terms, to subject of enunciation, my truth position, this is a dimension which... doesn't fit science. When Lacan says that the subject of psychoanalysis is the subject of science, he, I think, simply means, as you said correctly, this…

…when Kant says, du kannst, denn du sollst. You can because you must. I think Kant is really very radical here. He knew that, as Lacan would have put it, there is no big other. In what sense? Kant is usually read as a fetishist of duty. You must do…

…to say. No, no, what I want to say is that they get it, that you know... Freud, although you know all that bullshit, but Lacan can be misread in the sense that when he says unconscious is the discourse of the other, as if he thinks, oh, fuck it,…

…Sorry, I couldn't help it. It's my unconscious. And the other is personified much too quickly. The other is also the body in Lacan. Sorry, the other? It's also the body. Yeah, yeah. But again, this was never clear to me. Which body, you know, because we…

…male-female, because lots of things are being said these days about it. We'll perhaps come back to it. But at one point, Lacan talks about diogenes. It's a difficult name to pronounce. And I would rather not enter into the debate on cynical reason. That's…

…who masturbates in public. And asks Alexander the Great to move away because he is shadow that he doesn't see the sun. So Lacan says... Diogenes is an example of the fact that the sexual act is purely related to pleasure. And Lacan is arguing that…

…see the sun. So Lacan says... Diogenes is an example of the fact that the sexual act is purely related to pleasure. And Lacan is arguing that that's not what the sexual act is about. The satisfaction it brings is not pleasure, or that's not the purpose…

…in the world, which has to be a desiring position and is immediately a political position. In that seminar, Lacan also says that l'inconscient c'est politique. L'inconscient. C'est politique. He doesn't say la politique c'est inconscient. L'inconscient c'est…

…Troika. Me, Mladen Dolar and Alenka Zupancic. She published in French, in English, in German, a book, Illusion of the Real, Kant avec Lacan. where, yes, she goes in detail into this, in what sense, as Lacan puts it very clearly, that if you, to this you…

…English, in German, a book, Illusion of the Real, Kant avec Lacan. where, yes, she goes in detail into this, in what sense, as Lacan puts it very clearly, that if you, to this you were, I think, alluding, that if you look at the starting point in…

…of not finding sexual identity is just an extreme effect of a lack of identity which pertains to sexuality as such, according to Lacan. This is what Lacan means by il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel. And that's one of my problems with this case.…

…identity is just an extreme effect of a lack of identity which pertains to sexuality as such, according to Lacan. This is what Lacan means by il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel. And that's one of my problems with this case. categorization, that you have now…

…then I made a list. Oh, her list is better. I will love you. No. This is why I claim for structural reasons. And Lacan knew it. He mentions this. True love... is the highest act of freedom, which precisely for this cannot be ever experienced as a free…

…I think, of a psychoanalysis. Yes. That is, ne pas céder sur son désir and castration. Absolutely. And the paradox, nice paradox of Lacan is that... This is not kind of a not even, it appears as a paradox, but in reality, no, castration is a condition…

…it appears as a paradox, but in reality, no, castration is a condition of being unconditioned in this sense, no? No, no, no, Lacan has here, and I hope we agree, I'm sorry we don't have time, that Precisely, people usually say, yes, Freud had its…

…customs and so on but a civilization, customs which if you permit me here a reference to theories of Jacques Lacan, psychonautic theories which signal how you deal with what Lacan calls jouissance, excessive enjoyment. which doesn't mean kind of a…

…you permit me here a reference to theories of Jacques Lacan, psychonautic theories which signal how you deal with what Lacan calls jouissance, excessive enjoyment. which doesn't mean kind of a half-traumatic sexual madness enjoyment, but it means not direct…

…nicely of a And then when they order of dishes, and that, I think it's unique, it's one of the best examples of what Lacan calls separation, as opposed to alienation. When they get the meal, they get a plate, and on it is just some grey, indistinct...…

…guise of digital programs, functions as the external site that determines and regulates our desires, with the obvious reference to Lacan. He quotes repeatedly Lacan's formula, desire is the desire of the other. It's not mine, it's constructed through social…

…symbolic Big Other, a case which enables us to become aware of how we are de-centered and regulated. Spoken and not speaking, as Lacan put it. Lacan's answer is a resolute no. What is threatened in the digitalization of our daily lives is not our free…

…other. And we should take this statement seriously. in its strongest sense. As opposed to a mere, the big other doesn't exist. Lacan has here a precise distinction. If he says that something doesn't exist, This means just that it doesn't exist in reality,…

…like to be vulgar. If you kill all communists, then also communism no longer exists, because there is no one to practice it. But when Lacan says, il n'y a pas de grand autre, there is no, he has in mind a much stronger meaning. There is no big other…

…as a coherent symbolic fiction since it is always thwarted, destabilized through imminent antagonisms and inconsistencies. This is why for Lacan the big other is unconscious and Lacan plays nicely with this idea. inconscient, you know, he uses the shortened…

…it is always thwarted, destabilized through imminent antagonisms and inconsistencies. This is why for Lacan the big other is unconscious and Lacan plays nicely with this idea. inconscient, you know, he uses the shortened formula ICS, which can be read at the…

…read at the same time as unconscious, inconscient, and inconsistent, inconsistence. And this brings us to the crux of the matter. For Lacan, there is a space for subjectivity only insofar as the big other, there is no big other. The space for subjectivity…

…the big other. And, okay, I repeated this endlessly in my books. I will not lose time now. So this is why for Lacan, what does it practically mean, there is no big other? It means paradoxically the space of freedom. It means what Lacan calls separation…

…for Lacan, what does it practically mean, there is no big other? It means paradoxically the space of freedom. It means what Lacan calls separation in contrast to alienation. Because no matter how much you repeat, I have no free will, I'm overdetermined by…

…you repeat, I have no free will, I'm overdetermined by symbolic mechanisms, all those stupid formulas which are not the ultimate truth of Lacan, I'm not speaking, I'm spoken, subject is just an effect of the signifier, and so on and so on. This is the…

…signifier, and so on and so on. This is the position of alienation. My truth is out of myself, out there. But for Lacan, if this were the ultimate truth, then there would only maybe exist imaginary selves. Selves with their will, of course, and their…

…subject. They exist only insofar as there is a gap in the other. Which is why subject is strictly correlative to what Lacan calls the lack in the other. For example, you can see this nicely with intelligent theologists. When they claim that an…

…have the right to say, okay, I killed the child, sorry for this pathetic example, but what can you do? And then you paraphrase Lacan, it wasn't me, it was the big other who was acting through me. No, you are... This is why Freud says, I forgot where,…

…you know. In psychoanalysis you must confess and be responsible even for what you don't know about yourself. But you see that for Lacan, this is the space of freedom. The fact that in Yapa, the grand author, there is no big other, there is no external…

…out there, controlling me, but nonetheless... There is a place where things are really decided. The deepest lesson of psychoanalysis for Lacan is that that big other doesn't exist. And precisely this lack in the other itself opens up the space for our…

…exists out there in digital programs and so on and so on. So, what, because again, I will just briefly return to what Lacan means by there is no big other. It means, and this is absolutely crucial for Lacan, castration doesn't mean I am castrated, I…

…I will just briefly return to what Lacan means by there is no big other. It means, and this is absolutely crucial for Lacan, castration doesn't mean I am castrated, I never fully have what I want, I am separate. No, the big other is castrated. That's…

…fantasy that you find not only in cartoons but already we know where all of it is clearly formulated in Marquis de Sade as Lacan noted in his Cant avec Sade what you find in the Sadean victim if you read the rather boring book I never could have…

…father. They embrace. She says, Daddy, up. They disappear in a big... You know what's so interesting? here you can see what Lacan means by object A and so on. Something that appears just an accidental side story is really what the movie libidinally is…

…than it may appear. Market is universality in practice. You know, it's something that can be also developed nicely based on Lacan when he speaks about universality of signifier and so on. Let's say we talk about freedom. And let's say I collaborate…

…need this figure of the Jew to function, to sustain its ideological edifice? Independently of true or not. I follow here Jacques Lacan, who proposed a wonderful formula, crazy. He said, it's a little bit male chauvinist, that's why I don't like it, but…

…person I'm a kind of a neo-fascist. I like order, discipline at all levels, even in love life. Like my favorite... saying by Lacan is, my fiancé is never late for an appointment. Because the moment she is late, she is no longer my fiancé. There must…

…today, in the course of which the relationship to the other is gradually replaced by the captivation of individuals by what Lacan baptized with the neoleogism, the London's consumerist gadget. But, sorry, before I go into this direction, I want to emphasize…

…film, The Man of Steel, is literally in his translation of Stalin. So what I want to emphasize here is that, again, Lacan saw this tendency. For example, in the ethics seminar, Lacan evokes the point of the apocalypse, the impossible separation of the…

…Stalin. So what I want to emphasize here is that, again, Lacan saw this tendency. For example, in the ethics seminar, Lacan evokes the point of the apocalypse, the impossible separation of the symbolic material of Jewish songs, the full immersion into…

…we live, he aims at the fact that, quote, the possibility of the death of the symbolic has become a tangible reality. Lacan mentions the threat of atomic Holocaust. However, today, again, we have other versions of the death of the symbolic. And Lacan…

…reality. Lacan mentions the threat of atomic Holocaust. However, today, again, we have other versions of the death of the symbolic. And Lacan clear how the problem is not so much that we will be dwarfed by the machines, but I think we are already…

…course, an alternate reality for our daily experience is opaque. We are not aware of it, but it can be. manipulated. And Lacan also implies again how... Lacan focuses on the changed status of science implied by the profusion of objects entirely forged by…

…our daily experience is opaque. We are not aware of it, but it can be. manipulated. And Lacan also implies again how... Lacan focuses on the changed status of science implied by the profusion of objects entirely forged by science. What is involved in…

…is indestructible constantly is expanding, reproducing itself through self-division. In short, the fear of the mutant creature called by Lacan, La Mena, living as a born, the inhuman undead organ without a body. The mutant presubjective undead life Because…

…without bodies, which impose their repetitive freedom onto beings that they are. supposed to serve. And again, this is the reason Lacan sees in our world, as they say, increasingly populated by again what Lacan called Latus, these undead objects. Today, the…

…to serve. And again, this is the reason Lacan sees in our world, as they say, increasingly populated by again what Lacan called Latus, these undead objects. Today, the interesting point here is how, apropos this object, we have to include capitalism. We…

…mistake here. The same mistake as in the well-known joke about paradoxes of definition used often by one of my big teachers, Jacques Lacan. My fiancée is never late for an appointment because the moment she is late, she is no longer my fiancée. This is…

…think the experience of English language as an oppressive imposition also scales a much more dramatic fact. And here I follow Jacques Lacan, that every language is a parasitic foreign intuber. If there is a point which Lacan made in a justified way, it's…

…fact. And here I follow Jacques Lacan, that every language is a parasitic foreign intuber. If there is a point which Lacan made in a justified way, it's that the relationship between human-animal and language is parasitic. Language is not our spontaneous…

…another. I'm an atheist, but nonetheless, I think that the only way to be atheist is to go through theology today. Jacques Lacan said this. He said the only true atheists today are theologists. Namely, people usually say that, you know, This is even, I…

…I didn't think you were able to do this. I must admit it. You are a man. I didn't think you were able. Jacques Lacan said, gave us a theory for this, where it's a quote from one of his late seminars, where he says, "...beyond the mother stands…

…you do discreetly there, it's your problem. It's a wonderful detail. So what I'm saying is that in this sense, I think, Lacan was right in criticizing Hegel here. You know, Hegel, in maybe the most famous passage of his maybe greatest book, Phenomenology…

…where he claims servant, who wasn't ready to risk his life, servant works. Servant has to renounce enjoyment, master enjoys. But Lacan turns this around. He says, no, master is so worried about his authority that the master is prohibited, really prohibited…

…today i claim that You know, if you, now you will say, but what about a normal permissive father? The problem is, as Lacan knew very well, that permissivity, you can do it, tends to turn imperceptibly into a superego injunction. You have to do it. You…

…hear it again to see how. He ended up listening to it 40, 50 times per day. You know, like this is what Lacan calls... sanctum, not symptom, but synthesis, this kind of a condensation of stupid enjoyment. It haunts you, it's stupid, but although you are…

…were, with beautiful national myths laid the foundations for it. What interests me is to put it in Lacanian terms, or Jacques Lacan, the status of big other, big other in the sense of the public symbolic order, the unwritten or written rules which…

…than it may appear. This kind of, let's call it, disintegration of the big other. In the very naive, forget about Jacques Lacan here, sense of automatic reliance on certain basic things. dogmas, why not? And I think progress can be measured precisely by…

…this hysteria and more specifically in the figure of the hysteric? And I ask this question as a kind of restaging of the way Lacan was a commentary of May 68, and the way he responded to the fundamental sort of chez vous that the hysteric asked at…

…total misformulation, where he says, a pervert guy does in reality what hysterics only dream about. But this is totally wrong. As Lacan puts it nicely, every power, the more brutal it is, the more it needs a pervert support. Perversion is not subversion.…

…Perversion is not subversion. Perversion is always the obverse type of perversion. how power functions. And on the contrary for Lacan, the true subversion is hysterical questioning. So in this sense, okay, I mean it's a question of PR, public relations,…

…elaborated by psychoanalysis and Marxism. Repetition, unconscious, over-determination, modern mathematical science, then the dimension of language, which Lacan calls la langue, language in its ridiculous aspect of playing with words, ambiguities, and so on, then…

…far as possible to introduce ambiguity, clear structure in language, but on the contrary, by way of mobilizing precisely the dimension that Lacan calls la langue, all these stupid, abstract associations and so on and so on. You know, I think I even, I'm…

…idealist, self-bewusen, self-consciousness, he is talking about the unconscious, that is to say that, now this is a crazy thesis, but Lacan developed it very convincingly. I think, I'm not sure it was in his Lambert de la Psyche Analyse, the other side…

…Psyche Analyse, the other side of psychoanalysis seminar, on four discourses of psychoanalysis, I think it's from 69, 1970, where Lacan proposes a crazy statement, self-consciousness is an object. What does he mean by this? I think something very simple,…

…think about her. Nobody has to think about it. But in the very forum, this performative dimension is at work. Something similar, Lacan... Fuck, am I dreaming? It sounded almost as my name, and I thought, I was thinking about that horrible story that I…

…not clear negations, but this compromise negation, verdrängung, you repress it, but not quite. As Freud hints at somewhere, and Lacan proposes a beautiful formula, there is no repression without the return of the repressed. Because if there is repression…

…toy or whatever, this is an admission that you must add something to coffee, this would be the Lacanian object cause of desire, what Lacan calls the object small a, object it a. And so the root of this without or with milk is that already coffee is…

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…express yourself and so on. No, I like something that I learned. A friend told me, an old guy who was friend of Jacques Lacan himself. He told me that there was something incredible about Lacan as a person. When you saw him in public, He was playing a…

…learned. A friend told me, an old guy who was friend of Jacques Lacan himself. He told me that there was something incredible about Lacan as a person. When you saw him in public, He was playing a certain role, acting in a very artificial way and so…

…strike of Kim Jong-il. What kind of a warm human person is there behind this mask? And the shock was when you met Lacan in private, having dinner with him, going somewhere, was that there was nothing behind. He was exactly the same person. This would be…

…It's an even more radical true contradiction. Maybe this is how I would interpret what I described to you as how Lacan acts. There is no duality there. He's just, in private life, the same totally effective, disgusting, artificial monster as in public…

…of violence are we find this same underlying hypothesis in philosophers or thinkers as different as Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Lacan. The whole basic premise, as you probably know, of Jürgen Habermas's communicational ethics is that there is an ethics which…

…to enable the resolution of direct confrontation through symbolic mediation. Language is peace, exchange of symbols, trust, and so on. As Lacan puts it, even when language lies, even when we lie, we lie against the background of a dimension of truth. even,…

…which is missing in Heidegger and which is the focus of Jacques Lacan's theory of the symbolic order. Throughout his work, Lacan provides variations on Heidegger's motive of language as the house of being. Language is not man's creation or instrument. It is…

…as the house of being. Language is not man's creation or instrument. It is man who dwells in language. A quote from Lacan. Psychoanalysis should be the science of language inhabited by the subject. End of quote. Lacan's paranoia twist, however, his as a…

…had to be, in most of readings, reinterpreted as if we are dealing with a point of view shot. Here we encounter what Lacan calls gaze as object. precisely because, again, we get the gaze which cannot be attributed to the subject. We all know, to give…

…Who must be? Whose innocence? Who is the one whose innocent belief has to be maintained here? It's the function of what Lacan calls the big other at its purest. And this brings us, again, to the problematic of belief, very fashionable today, you know,…

…happens. A child buys the egg, unwraps it, breaks the chocolate shell and goes directly at the plastic toy. If you don't understand Lacan, this is, I think, the perfect case of Lacan's motto, I love you but inexplicably. I love something in you more than…

…say what you mean. It gives you the breathing space, my God. And here I think, with the help of Freud and Lacan, we should correct Marx. I think that the whole topic of... Literally, we need more alienation. Why this hermeneutically imperialist approach?…

…is really 13, no? Like, whom are you cheating? Again, no ground. But maybe you are here in this groundlessness closer to what Lacan aimed at when he talked about the inexistence of the big other. The big other symbolic order doesn't exist. One of the…

…it's in an early, sorry, Isaac Asimov story, Jokester, where I think this is maybe the ultimate paranoiac dream, the dream of what Lacan calls the other of the other. As if it would have been possible to discover the primordial author of jokes. This may…

…somehow is afraid to take itself seriously. You know that theologists like to point out this fact, which is also accepted by Lacan, that we are naturally believers like it's very difficult to be a true atheist really a radical atheist but I think the…

…all this for subjectivity? What kind of subjectivity fits this open universe? Of course, it's an empty subjectivity. We know it from Lacan, but what does this mean? Let me tell you a personal story which I like, because it's obscene, of course. Recently,…

…is maybe even the lie as such. If there is a lesson of psychoanalysis, it is that the core of the subject is, as Freud, Lacan put it after him, the subject is the thing, and that's the neighbor. I'm slowly coming to my topic. Neighbor is a thing. A…

…But that's the sad lesson of psychoanalysis. That doesn't exclude a lie. What this means... is now we reach this, what Lacan calls, dis-centrement of subjectivity. That when you are at your innermost yourself, you are not yourself, as they put it. You…

…you are not yourself, as they put it. You are lying, basically. That you are at a distance from truth. Which is why Lacan... uses these words, I will not go into this malaria topic that you mentioned, symptom, symptom, and so on, no. In this sense,…

…is just my expression, I project into her, or whatever, whatever. It means something much more crazy. The key point is that for Lacan, The symptom pre-exists what it is a symptom of. This would be for me a beautiful poetic vision, for example. If woman…

…is Kantian ethics. Why? In what radical sense Kantian ethics fits it? That's to say, did you notice something strange? Okay, Lacan has this formula, have you acted in conformity with your desire? That is to say, do not compromise, betray your desire.…

…whatever you want. We have liberal... We have maybe the most cunning, but which I disagree is... And this is how, unfortunately, Lacan is usually read. What I'm tempted to call immoral ethics. kind of a Nietzschean ethics. It doesn't matter what you do,…

…today. Lacanian jargon, I don't speak, I am spoken, and all that stuff. The other speaks through me. But, nonetheless, as Lacan always emphasizes... To simply assume this as a subjective position, for example, I don't know, I say something stupid, Kostas,…

…always, like Alenka's mother, it always eludes you and so on. But, you know, it's absolutely crucial to bear in mind that for Lacan, yes, we always miss the full jouissance, but at the same time we cannot get rid of it. Maybe a more fundamental lesson…

…yes, we always miss the full jouissance, but at the same time we cannot get rid of it. Maybe a more fundamental lesson by Lacan is how... is how, no matter how you try to get rid of enjoyment, like all the obsessional rituals are destined to do this,…

…negation of negation. It is in this sense that, and Alenka developed this in an unpublished text, I think that for Lacan, desire is indestructible precisely insofar as it is utterly fleeting, evanescent, impossible. Desire is not in a Jungioe like a big,…

…put in the terms of the relationship between the Hegelian negation of negation and Lacan's couple of alienation and separation. For Lacan, alienation of the subject in the symbolic order is constitutive of the subject. There is stricto sensu, no subject who…

…subject is the result of the process of alienation. It emerges through the loss of its substantial content. And this is why Lacan does have a counter move. This alienation. But it's not the standard Hegelian one, or at least what people think the Hegelian…

…I alienate myself in substantial content and then triumphantly I recognize myself in the otherness, I re-appropriate. No. For Lacan, alienation is just redoubled. To use the old Hegelian phrase that I repeat endlessly repeatedly. Let's say ancient Egyptians…

…of the Marxist alienation, you know, where faith, market, whatever, controls us. What we can do is... to see how, as Lacan would have put it, the big other doesn't exist. For example, in history, there is no higher historical necessity, substantial…

…is language for nature? How does the emergence of language affect nature? Aaron Schuster, again, drew attention to how Lacan himself oscillates here between the predominant transcendental approach and some timid hints to each beyond. It's interesting how,…

…Lacan himself oscillates here between the predominant transcendental approach and some timid hints to each beyond. It's interesting how, again, Lacan here, if you read him closely, is caught in exactly the same predicament as Heidegger's. On the one hand,…

…invent beautiful stories, to develop myths about what went before. But it's not as simple as that. Often Heidegger hints, sorry, Lacan, that the symbolic order is a reaction to some radical deadlock. Of course, he doesn't use these mystical terms, sorrow in…

…mystical terms, sorrow in nature, but deadlock being at a lost dislocation which is already there in nature. Again, I quote Lacan. so that the Freudian unbehagen in der Kultur should be supplemented by an uncanny unbehagen in der Natur. It's not simply…

…the relationship between nature and culture to be the one of radical discontinuity. End of quote. So, again, you see how Lacan works. On the one hand, you have this eternal... poetry of dislocation of sexuality in human species in contrast to poor…

…text not yet published, she... again, developed all this in detail precisely apropos sexuality. How? In a crucial passage, when Lacan introduces the term of lamella in Seminar 11 for Fundamental Concepts, he says something which passes unnoticed. He says, I…

…Lacan introduces the term of lamella in Seminar 11 for Fundamental Concepts, he says something which passes unnoticed. He says, I quote it, Lacan, What is lamela is what is subtracted from the living being by virtue of the fact that it is subject to the…

…this displacement, you can sustain the myth that we had an authentic language. While the ABC thesis that unites Freud, Hegel, Lacan is precisely that Heidegger is too simplistic when he speaks about language as house designs, as the... the house of being.…

…put it in this way, to give you a formula. When you talk about this constant process of subjectivation, for instance in Lacan, it's true, it's not... This is a very tricky question, because I think that... you are obviously half, at least, a Lacanian.…

…are obviously half, at least, a Lacanian. Then you must know, do you know a wonderful book by François Balmes, Cirque du Lacan, is it Lacan or Heidegger? Cirque du Lacan did the letter on the relation between Heidegger and Lacan, where he draws attention…

…half, at least, a Lacanian. Then you must know, do you know a wonderful book by François Balmes, Cirque du Lacan, is it Lacan or Heidegger? Cirque du Lacan did the letter on the relation between Heidegger and Lacan, where he draws attention to how the…

…you must know, do you know a wonderful book by François Balmes, Cirque du Lacan, is it Lacan or Heidegger? Cirque du Lacan did the letter on the relation between Heidegger and Lacan, where he draws attention to how the term subjectivization is more of…

…Balmes, Cirque du Lacan, is it Lacan or Heidegger? Cirque du Lacan did the letter on the relation between Heidegger and Lacan, where he draws attention to how the term subjectivization is more of the early Lacan, where subjectivation means subjective through…

…relation between Heidegger and Lacan, where he draws attention to how the term subjectivization is more of the early Lacan, where subjectivation means subjective through symbolic appropriation, but The true enigma is late Lacan's notion of subject where,…

…but The true enigma is late Lacan's notion of subject where, surprisingly, in his, I think, Logique du Fantasme and so on, Lacan violently, in a good sense, returns to Cartesian cogito in an explicit move, again, Heidegger. Why that? So, again, it all…

…so on. In this sense, I am for subjectivity. It has nothing to do with this. Sorry, maybe this is what Balmes hints why Lacan keeps the term subject. Maybe, and Hegel knew this, we, when we talk about subject, we are too much part of this, maybe even…

…much part of this, maybe even pseudo, Fichte and Marx, where subjectivity means, you know, creativity, productivity, domination. For Lacan, subject is at its most fundamental, a passive position, a position even of an impotent observer. The fundamental attitude…

…unwrap... the egg and crack the chocolate shell open, you find in it a small plastic toy. Is this toy not what Jacques Lacan called the object small a. The small object filling in the central void of our desire. The hidden treasure. No wonder Kinder…

…that radical theology is not external but internal to philosophy, a caesura within the thought of, among others, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Lacan, etc. And in terms of the currency, the currency of the death of God is, I would affirm Carl Schmitt's claim…

…But, and of course, in Marxist terms, the symptom logic is the logic of false universality, which is very correctly Jacques Lacan, my psychoanalytic master, said paradoxically that Marx invented the notion of the symptom. Symptom is when you look at the…

…clearly pathological, but why? And now, maybe you will not agree with this, it will shock you, but I insist. What Jacques Lacan, my father, psychoanalyst, I mean, theoretical father, said about... I thought we could have a whole hour and a half without…

…I mean, theoretical father, said about... I thought we could have a whole hour and a half without you mentioning Jacques Lacan. I was wrong. You are guilty because you... Just very briefly, he says somewhere that, let's say, I'm sorry for the…

…Soon we will have to ask for at least elements of a positive program. Why? Reacting to the protests in Paris, In 1968, Jacques Lacan said, quote, what you aspire to as revolutionaries is a new master. You will get one, end of quote. Okay, I think this…

…No, sorry, if I can just do that, I leave you all the time. You know what is so important for me in Jacques Lacan? That for him, he's speaking about nuns. He's absolutely clear in rejecting this bullshit that being a priest or a nun, I mean, now…

…I mean more in a, you Protestants, you do all dirty things like we, but... Those who don't engage in sex. And Lacan makes it clear that there is nothing pathological in it. We should absolutely not reject this pseudo-Freudian bullshit, you know. A normal…

…artifacts. We humans are here, in this book, reduced to a pure disembodied gaze observing, as it were, our own absence. As Lacan points out, this is the fundamental subjective position of fantasy, to be reduced to a gaze which observes the world in the…

…would rather imagine the end of the world than an end to capitalism. And that in that sense that they miss the big other. As Lacan put it. Sorry, in that sense? In that sense that they miss the big other. And that seems to be a way of blocking our…

…your question, that capitalism is, in a way, the natural system. It's not just one. You know in what sense? For Lacan. Human desire is characterized by this constitutive instability, no supreme good, constant hysterization, you never get it. And as it was…

…figure of the Jews to engage in his project? I'm just developing a variation of, you must know it, of this classic point of Lacan. He puts it in a wonderfully naive way. I'm sorry again for my chauvinist bias. Lacan put it like this. He says, let's…

…must know it, of this classic point of Lacan. He puts it in a wonderfully naive way. I'm sorry again for my chauvinist bias. Lacan put it like this. He says, let's say a husband is jealous of his wife that she's sleeping around with other men. And…

…the limitations of Marx and so on and so on. In this sense, it is in this spirit that I want to... combine Marx and Jacques Lacan, and in the first part of my talk, and I doubt if there will be time for the second part, we will see, I would like…

…to begin with some very elementary things about What is Lacan's basic conceptual contribution? What new thing did he bring, Lacan, in his reading of psychoanalysis? In his seminar, Les Non-Dupes Erres, from 73-74, and it's typically Lacanian title, Les…

…wonderful dialectical thought that sometimes to see how things really are, you err the most. You don't see the point. As always with Lacan, there is here already also a word play. Because if you pronounce it quickly in French, le nom du père also means…

…French, le nom du père also means names of the father. Okay, but let's not go into that. In his typical arrogant way, Lacan asks the question. He speaks, of course, he was a megalomaniac in the third person about himself. He said, he, Lacan, what was…

…way, Lacan asks the question. He speaks, of course, he was a megalomaniac in the third person about himself. He said, he, Lacan, what was it that Lacan, who is here present, invented? Then he answers, he says, like that, to get things going, object…

…He speaks, of course, he was a megalomaniac in the third person about himself. He said, he, Lacan, what was it that Lacan, who is here present, invented? Then he answers, he says, like that, to get things going, object A, l'objectit A. He said...…

…true invention is objectita, the object small a, the object cause of desire. And as we can immediately see, anyone who knows Lacan, Although he uses this term from the very beginning of his teaching, this term gets really elaborated only from the late…

…this term from the very beginning of his teaching, this term gets really elaborated only from the late 60s, 70s, when Lacan massively returns to reading capital. It's a clear connection between Lacan's object small a as the so-called surplus enjoyment, and…

…of thought, but I think it's important today. To analyze racism. We should always apply to it, I claim, Lacan's wonderful saying, Jacques Lacan, of course, that even, let's say we have a man, it can also be a woman, but okay, I will use Lacan's example,…

…bit sexist. He says that when a man is pathologically jealous about his wife, that she's sleeping around serially with other men, Lacan says... Even if all the man's fears are true, even if his wife is really sleeping around with other men, his jealousy…

…project? Why do they need the Jew? Not, are Jews really like that? In this sense... Jew is what Jacques Lacan called the zero signifier, the signifier without signified. In what sense? All signification, actual signification in the, of course, anti-Semitic…

…And now comes the beauty. From socialism, it took the name. But you see the point. Socialism, in this sense, empty signifier. As Lacan puts it in a very precise way, at some point, as Lacan puts it, signifier falls into the signified. The name doesn't…

…you see the point. Socialism, in this sense, empty signifier. As Lacan puts it in a very precise way, at some point, as Lacan puts it, signifier falls into the signified. The name doesn't just designate a thing, but you need the name to... It's in a…