…you... It's like Pokemon. You add it to reality to make it meaningful. But this is not all. At the same time, what Lacan calls Object A... is something that is an object, a surplus object, something that, as it were, falls into our reality from nowhere.…

…the pretext of murder investigations? You know, this is for me, in a very elementary way, the most interesting aspect of what Lacan calls object small a. It's what causes your desire, but what is usually directly experienced as an obstacle to it. For…

…too vulgar, too direct. That's the mystery of the series. You need an obstacle. The object A is not her. The object A, as Lacan puts it, is not the object of your desire, which is usually at least another human being. But what makes you desire? And…

…I'd like to thank you and Slavoj. I want to thank you. I am grateful to your patience. Thanks very much. And, you know, Lacan defines the real as that which always returns to the same place. I hope this is real and that I will return here. Thanks…

…his publications is that the way Hegel radicalized Kant by getting rid of the thing in itself is also the way that Lacan radicalized Freud. So that the unconscious in Freud is in some sense a real thing, a quasi-biological entity that's there, hidden…

…that the unconscious in Freud is in some sense a real thing, a quasi-biological entity that's there, hidden beneath appearance. For Lacan, that's not really true. The unconscious occurs in the gaps and ruptures on the surface. There's not really a hidden…

…me, a certain... If you want to structural deadlock, impossibility, passivity, what do I mean by this? Let me go on here. For Lacan, subject does have always an object that it is. It's just that the paradox of subject is that the subject is an object…

…I am. And it's not just this. It's that this surplus of not knowing has to be embodied in an additional paradoxical object called by Lacan, object small a, the object call of desire, and so on and so on. Which is why I don't... I will talk too much,…

…of desire, and so on and so on. Which is why I don't... I will talk too much, I'm afraid. Which is why for Lacan, you know, when people think for psychoanalysis, object of desire is forever eluding. Yes, but that object is not out there. I cannot ever…

…eluding. Yes, but that object is not out there. I cannot ever reach it. That object is myself. Subject... Which is why for Lacan the ultimate subject in sex terms is a woman with this eternal hysterical question, tell me why you love me. It means tell…

…If the symptom is something that we can kind of borrow from psychoanalysis, but originally you trace it quite beautifully back to Marx. Lacan says Marx kind of brings up the idea of symptom as the kind of access of ideology. So would it be possible to…

…this term too much because in psychoanalysis it has a very precise meaning. It's especially symptom is never just a symptom. Lacan plays with this term symptom like a knot. Symptom is really what... holds the subject together. If you dissolve the symptom,…

…what's going on. You're also a god on campus of the student generation growing up on postmodern theory. And you're always quoting Lacan, Derrida, and Walter Benjamin, Heidegger, as well as Freud and Marx. When I was in college in the 60s, we never heard…

…enough there. Precisely because the list that you enumerated, you know, one has to introduce distinctions there. You mentioned, for example, post-modernism, Lacan, and so on and so on. But you know that we are the last Stalinists in the sense that we fight…

…one, also propelled Miller to intervene in such The financial universe is an architecture made of fictions, and its keystone is what Lacan called a subject supposed to know, to know why and how. Who plays this part? of the subject supposed to know.…

…Now I will immediately elaborate this, because in a way Hegel definitely can think unconsciously. an unconscious. And I checked it up, even Lacan is aware of it. He says, I think, I may be wrong that it's in Seminar on Identification, that there is a…

…says, I think, I may be wrong that it's in Seminar on Identification, that there is a Hegelian unconscious, but Lacan insists not the same as Freudian. Overdetermination. Then, this is the truly hard point, modern formalized science. Hegel obviously dismisses…

…No, you are doing literally for your enjoyment and so on. But nonetheless, the motive which is central for Freud and especially Lacan, the motive of the gap between the true and the real. The real of jouissance. This gap, Hegel maybe cannot get it.…

…cannot get it. Let me give you here a brief quote of one of late Lacan's seminars, seminar 19, sorry, 29. from 76, where Lacan says, a quote, session of December 14th, 76, the true or the real? At this level, everything is set up as if these two…

…but he was a total idiot. He didn't know. But it must be attributed to you. This is what, in a way, I think Lacan means today. when he talks about the discentered subject. There is no subject more discentered than the king. So I think here Marx is…

…of my ancient points, this is where I think if we are true Hegelians, we can nicely show how right was... Lacan, namely where Catholic Church is wrong apropos sexuality. This idea that the only civilized sexuality is ultimately for procreation and that…

…problem is that if you take away daydreaming, you no longer have sex, you have a nightmare. I mean, that's the basic point of Lacan. This is the monstrosity of the humans. This is why we can sustain so much violence and so on, because fantasy is always…

…dealer guy, what you have provoked me into some more philosophy. I will begin with the what I already hinted at yesterday. For Lacan, for all this stuff about the center subject, subject is caused by the signifying chain, and so on, but it's not as…

…the center subject, subject is caused by the signifying chain, and so on, but it's not as simple as that. If you read Lacan closely, he says some things which sound almost almost Hegelian, some kind of, for example, the late Lacan, he says somewhere that…

…as that. If you read Lacan closely, he says some things which sound almost almost Hegelian, some kind of, for example, the late Lacan, he says somewhere that the subject is ultimately a cause of itself. He of course doesn't mean it in a naive Fichte and…

…is nothing but a retroactive effect of its own effects and here failure intervenes and it's this circularity which is for Lacan defining of subjectivity what is a subject Subject is something, as we know from Lacan, a signifier, a representable. So subject…

…and it's this circularity which is for Lacan defining of subjectivity what is a subject Subject is something, as we know from Lacan, a signifier, a representable. So subject is represented, or let's put it in a totally naive way, pre-Lacanian. You are a…

…of what is reality. Certain notion of irrationality, of the limitation of our reason, and so on, and so on, all that. So, Lacan This is one target of psychoanalysis, that it's not simply strong enough. It may be interesting, but it has to rely on…

…relationship, is not an axiom which only underlies human sexuality, determining it as fundamentally antagonistic. And incidentally, even here, Lacan is often misread. Even Jacqueline Miller sometimes, I think, gets lost. For example, when he says that il n'y…

…the two sexes as always in a permanent conflict, never harmony, and so on, and so on, this is not at all what Lacan means, this... To use the horrible, terrifyingly bad bestseller, men are from Mars, women are from Venus. No, the whole point of Lacan…

…Lacan means, this... To use the horrible, terrifyingly bad bestseller, men are from Mars, women are from Venus. No, the whole point of Lacan is not that we have the two sexes as constituted and then they always miss each other and so on, but that each…

…And subjectivity can only arise in a reality which is ontologically incomplete, traversed by an impossibility. This also means for Lacan, I will try to demonstrate this, now I'm just positing the axioms, that subject is eminently constitutively sexed. It's…

…sexual relationship. So, how do I... What do I mean by this? Let's begin with Kant, from Kant to Hegel. Why is for Lacan Kant at the beginning of it all? I'm of course here relying on the path-breaking study, and it's very strange how totally ignored…

…to discover that these two antinomies, quantitative antinomies, dynamic antinomies, and mathematical antinomies, exactly fit, and it's shocking that Lacan never writes this, was not afraid, sorry, was not aware of it, exactly fit Lacan's formulas of sexuation.…

…formulas of sexuation. In other words, what are, for Kant, mathematical antinomies, all or non-all, are structured like what Lacan calls the deadlock antagonism of feminine sexuality, what Kant calls dynamic antinomies, which are structured exactly like what…

…Lacan calls the deadlock antagonism of feminine sexuality, what Kant calls dynamic antinomies, which are structured exactly like what Lacan calls masculine antagonism, which is universality and its constitutive exceptions, and so on, and so on. So, that's…

…Which is why in my new book that I'm just finishing, there is a chapter of antinomies of pure sexuation, because this is what Lacan is doing. Okay, so what's then the problem with Kant? Here I think what is crucial is to accomplish a passage from Kant…

…I use the stuff from my new book, so you can get it. Okay, let's go on. So that's then the idea of Lacan, that in the same way that Hegel... draws the ontological consequences of Kantian antinomies which means that it's not only that our epistemology…

…antinomies but it reproduces an antinomy which is in the very core of what is reality reality is profoundly antinomic And for Lacan, in this sense, Sexual antagonism is the privileged way to get at this, therein resides, as you can see in Kant again,…

…the youth and so on. There is a radical negative dimension and the gap is there. And I think the greatness of Lacan is that his reference to philosophy He makes an alliance to what philosophy, its own founding gesture that philosophy tries to unleash.…

…alliance to what philosophy, its own founding gesture that philosophy tries to unleash. And what is this founding gesture? When Lacan, when he attacks philosophy, he gets very simplistic. He likes to say that philosophy is this Weltanschauung. world view the…

…all the time obliterating its own founding gesture. At the same time, of course, psychoanalysis, one big regression. And the genius of Lacan is that he got it, in spite of all his anti-philosophical posturing, that the only way to bring out The most…

…bring out The most radical dimension of Freudian psychoanalysis is through a reference to philosophy. All philosophers are needed. When Lacan talks about repetition, it's Kierkegaard. Lacan talks about surplus surplus enjoyment it's Marx and so on and so on…

…dimension of Freudian psychoanalysis is through a reference to philosophy. All philosophers are needed. When Lacan talks about repetition, it's Kierkegaard. Lacan talks about surplus surplus enjoyment it's Marx and so on and so on and so on it's a much more…

…you make of Jacqueline Miller's notion of ordinary psychosis? First, it's not Jacqueline Miller's. From what I know, it's already... Already Lacan says that the ordinary person, the sane ordinary person has a psychotic structure and so on and so on. But…

…so problematic in Miller here is that My God, he should have known. It is as if, I'm sorry to say this, as if Lacan, as if he didn't read Lacan. Lacan's whole point is that. And Lacan says this emphatically. For example, debating Kant. Lacan says, my…

…that My God, he should have known. It is as if, I'm sorry to say this, as if Lacan, as if he didn't read Lacan. Lacan's whole point is that. And Lacan says this emphatically. For example, debating Kant. Lacan says, my real has nothing to do with this…

…is as if, I'm sorry to say this, as if Lacan, as if he didn't read Lacan. Lacan's whole point is that. And Lacan says this emphatically. For example, debating Kant. Lacan says, my real has nothing to do with this Kantian thing in itself, some entity,…

…as if Lacan, as if he didn't read Lacan. Lacan's whole point is that. And Lacan says this emphatically. For example, debating Kant. Lacan says, my real has nothing to do with this Kantian thing in itself, some entity, pure real, out of law. Lacanian real…

…Real is an internal obstacle twist whatever within the symbolic itself. This brings us back also to feminine sexuality. For Lacan, it's often misread. Feminine sexuality, the formula doesn't mean women are partially within the symbolic order, but ha-ha, we…

…symbolic order, but ha-ha, we are not totally in, we are a little bit out, we have that stupid jouissance feminine. No, Lacan says women are also more fully within the symbolic than men. Because, you know, the other... part of non-all is no exception.…

…So it is as if there is something, I mean, Miller still, I confess it, she is basically a genius, she is my introduction to Lacan, but it's as if He's losing nerves in the last years. My idea is, and I say this with all respect, look at his edition…

…into this for me rather tasteless uh tasteless uh It's like National Geographic, National Inquirer, those, you know, like, oh, Philippe Lacan asked me, is Philippe Solaire there? Yes, he was there, you know, reporting all these rumors about and so on. Also,…

…new post-feminist woman. She was absolutely, I mean, he's making such, I think that he's a sad example of what maybe holds even for Lacan, that, and maybe it holds also for me, that it's not always that when a thinker is at the end of his path that…

…last words. No, there can be a high point before and then you go down. And I think the tragedy of the very last Lacan was that somewhere around seminar 20, a year before, after, I think this is his high point. He there formulated a certain deadlock of…

…Borromean knots and so on, these are desperate attempts to find a way out. And if you really read closely those very late Lacan seminars, which are somehow tragically funny, like he tells a couple of sentences, some of them are an open admission of total…

…me, it means he's not young, no doubt, What if Miller went on the same path again? Miller defines the real in Lacan as we pass from the real of nature, external real, submitted, subjected to natural laws, to this totally outlaw, chaotic, postmodern real,…

…sad, because again, I admit it, in spite of all my misunderstanding with Miller, I say it brutally, without Miller, I would simply not be in Lacan. I would not ever understand Lacan. Thank you. Okay, so I think we'll leave it there. Some more tomorrow.

…sad, because again, I admit it, in spite of all my misunderstanding with Miller, I say it brutally, without Miller, I would simply not be in Lacan. I would not ever understand Lacan. Thank you. Okay, so I think we'll leave it there. Some more tomorrow.

…to be accepted as a king. Which, again, is the exact opposite of the king who believes that he is a king. You know, Jacques Lacan has this wonderful statement that a madman is not only a beggar who thinks he is a king. A madman is only the king who…

…seriously and go at least into something that will be like three quarters of a theory. About, again, this parallel between what Lacan calls with all the wonderful French ambiguities, you know, because means More of, but if you know French, it also can…

…see immediately in box sense is the point. Then, the surplus value, Merwert in Marx, and I would like to add, as Lacan does, and it's strange how this topic is almost totally neglected, the topic of surplus knowledge. knowledge in excess, and how the…

…as already mentioned, has three forms, surplus value, surplus enjoyment, and surplus knowledge. They are all forms of appearance of what Lacan calls l'objectita, the object small a, the object cause of desire. Lacan begins the 11th week of his seminar Les…

…surplus knowledge. They are all forms of appearance of what Lacan calls l'objectita, the object small a, the object cause of desire. Lacan begins the 11th week of his seminar Les Noms du Père, from 73, 74, you know this wonderful play which works. It's…

…of his seminar Les Noms du Père, from 73, 74, you know this wonderful play which works. It's a basic theoretical insight of Lacan, very Hegelian, I claim. It means precisely those who are not dupe tricked, they err. They are most in the wrong. And I…

…the wrong choice to make the right choice. And when he asks himself in this 11th session of his seminar, he asks himself, Lacan, sorry, a question in his usually arrogant way, addressing himself. Here's a quote from Lacan. What was it that Lacan who is…

…of his seminar, he asks himself, Lacan, sorry, a question in his usually arrogant way, addressing himself. Here's a quote from Lacan. What was it that Lacan who is here present, really invented. He meant himself. And then he answers the question. He…

…asks himself, Lacan, sorry, a question in his usually arrogant way, addressing himself. Here's a quote from Lacan. What was it that Lacan who is here present, really invented. He meant himself. And then he answers the question. He says, like that, to get…

…He meant himself. And then he answers the question. He says, like that, to get things going, objeta, the object, small a. So Lacan considered this his, the core of his return to Freudian. So again, it's not desire of the other. It's not the unconscious…

…is structured like a language. It's not even there is no sexual relationship or some other of these big Lacanian mantras. And Lacan emphasizes that this object small a is not just one among his contribution. He thinks everything that he really invented is…

…how it means gradually exactly the opposite of what it meant. At the beginning, it was in his first seminars, early 50s, For Lacan, object A was simply the imaginary object, the image with which I identify and so on. Then it is closer, gets closer to…

…of object small a. And here, reference to Marx's especially to Marx's notion of surplus value, it's crucial. It enabled Lacan to articulate his notion of object small a as surplus enjoyment, pludesvir, merlus. The predominant motive which penetrates all…

…which penetrates all Lacan's references to Marx's analysis of commodities is the structural homology between surplus value of Marx and what Lacan calls surplus enjoyment. The key, if we are looking for the roots to surplus enjoyment in Freud, then I think…

…what Freud calls compulsion to repeat, and the compulsion to repeat is, of course, the basic movement of what Freud calls drive. Lacan, in reading closely Freud, distinguishes in the notion of drive between its goal and its aim. The goal is, for example,…

…goal, direct goal of the oral drive is, okay, it's like a child sucking breast, getting fit, satisfying your need. But for Lacan, the true aim of drive is the very repetitive movement of satisfying it. What really brings satisfaction is just sucking the…

…Freud calls compulsion to repeat. Wiederholungstrang. Here there is so much work to be done in going further from Marx, sorry, even from Lacan in reading Freud exactly. Just a couple of motives to amuse you, maybe, or to allow you to see in new light…

…to bear this in mind because already through this simple insight you can get rid of this all pseudo-postmodern stupidity of Lacan as a poet of non-satisfaction, like jouissance, full enjoyment, is never here, it's castrated, it's on, you never get the…

…the primitive Oedipal version, no woman is really a mother, you know, we always, we men in so-called normal sexuality, which for Lacan is not normal, and so on. We always thought, no, but you know, Lacan, and this is where psychoanalysis begins in exact…

…we men in so-called normal sexuality, which for Lacan is not normal, and so on. We always thought, no, but you know, Lacan, and this is where psychoanalysis begins in exact parallel with Marx again. Lacan's premise is not just this tragic negativity. We…

…assume the void of desire. Desire is a gas no object can satisfy it and so on and so on. No, the first complication of Lacan is, okay, no woman is a mother, but we have to add even mother herself is not the mother, you know. In other words, what…

…again, back to my main line. We have to distinguish here, as you probably all know, between pleasure and enjoyment. What Lacan calls enjoyment, jouissance, is the deadly excess over pleasure. It's beyond pleasure principle. So now comes, of course, the basic…

…It's beyond pleasure principle. So now comes, of course, the basic paradox. Surplus enjoyment is a nonsensical tautology because for Lacan we do not have zero level enjoyment which is then supplemented by some surplus. Enjoyment is in itself a surplus.…

…prohibit enjoyment, so we have to get rid of them or replacement with different norms. The big problem is why what Lacan calls the super ego injunction to enjoy sabotages enjoyment in the most efficient way. Because I claim the classic moderately…

…then I wanted to pass on to modern science, where we have the same surplus paradox, which is why very nicely Lacan speaks about primordial accumulation of knowledge with modern science. You know, in traditional societies, you have some basic common sense…

…hyperactive all the time, like all prohibitions are over and so on and so on. Even my original teacher, the nephew of Lacan, Jacqueline Miller, unfortunately bought this story. How the new century will be the century of the real. It's no longer Oedipus,…

…yourself. Like, you may be determined socially as a man, but sorry, I don't recognize. I'm not that, I'm not that. Well, for Lacan, the first note here would have been that it's always like this. Okay, not to such a degree, but, sorry, maybe I'm a…

…when I go to a toilet and see gentlemen, am I that? I mean, and this, I'm not making just a joke here. For Lacan, sexual identity is ultimately always an escape a desperate attempt to cover up a fundamental anxiety. Am I dead or whatever? This is why…

…is ultimately always an escape a desperate attempt to cover up a fundamental anxiety. Am I dead or whatever? This is why for Lacan, subjectivity is such a... Sorry, no, but just to go on. So you know what would have been my solution? It's a little…

…as such. Why? Because you know what's the problem from Lacanian theory? Okay, you can disagree with the term, but when Lacan speaks about what he calls symbolic concentration, he means precisely this fundamental anxiety and ease as if by way of entering…

…was stolen from me. My look was no longer looking back at me. It is in such weird experiences that you catch what Lacan called gaze as the object small a at its purest. The part of our image which eludes the mirror-like symmetrical image. relationship.…

…very weird operation of censorship? It is as if it's not that they wanted to protect us, but they wanted precisely what Lacan called the big other. They wanted to protect some all-knowing view. They didn't want to protect us. We all, again, automatically…

…crazy insistence absolutely clean no traces of shit or whatever Again, why I find this interesting is that you can see how when Lacan talks about big other and so on, the other's gaze, this is not some fantasy. This is something which is my God. Hayes…

…were, of the big other. The belief to be protected is the belief of the big other. So, again, my old Thesis, when Lacan speaks about the big other, the big other is not so much this Hegelian cunning of reason, substance, a divine-like entity which pulls…

…if you saw the movie, Mulholland Drive, in two steps. First, it's that test shooting scene, which is, you can understand there why Lacan says that, repeats after Freud, that the real appears as dream within a dream. We are in a movie, but we get... a…

…then narratively. But nonetheless, those minutes when the phone goes on ringing, where we have precisely what? And here I combine Lacan and Deleuze. It's like the Cheshire Cat in Alice, big reference of Deleuze in the logic of sense. You know, when…

…et avant. Wind instrument and string instrument. Able to sink and so on and so on. So it's as if, again, counteracting what Lacan calls woman doesn't exist is that there you have the guarantee when vagina talks woman does exist positively not just as the…

…he has broken the chains. So in other words, Liberation is first you have to beat yourself, to get rid of that, as Lacan would have put it, the surplus enjoyment with which your master pays you. That's the difficult part of liberating yourself. And my…

…crucial for, as Lacanian, you also know this as well as I, that precisely fantasy at its most radical for Lacan is not subjectivized. Fantasy is asubjective. Fantasy is not what you fantasize about. It's precisely... Paradoxically, what Freud calls…

…Fantasy is asubjective. Fantasy is not what you fantasize about. It's precisely... Paradoxically, what Freud calls fundamental fantasies for Lacan, what you are precisely unable to directly fantasize about. This is the whole point of, you know, that wonderful…

…precisely was never fantasized by the small kid. It's pure presupposition. So in this sense, yes, I agree that when Lacan speaks about the divided subjects, I claim, the ultimate division is precisely between subject and fantasy. It's that the subject…

…get two years of gulag and a little bit of confession to do for not fully recall. I detect sometimes a trace of irony towards Lacan in you. Am I correct? No. This is not sincere. What I mean is that doesn't it happen, I think, once when they are…

…you know, love is not direct, that object of love is not the same as the object of desire. It's not the same as what Lacan calls the object cause of desire, which is that on account of which I love you. And again, you can hear complicated way in a…

…which for me is the fundamental dimension of fantasies, gets lost, maybe. Namely, two aspects of fantasy. One, repeated again by Lacan, and you find it already in Freud, which is that fantasy is not opposed to reality. When your fantasy disintegrates, you…

…that? Well, the first thing one cannot help noticing is that Jacques Lacan's well-known critical inversion of this Dostoevsky's dictum, Lacan inverted it into, if there is no God, then everything is prohibited. This inversion is much more appropriate to…

…Talmud formula exemplifies the idea of God kept alive by subject's incessant activity. In his seminar on the ethics of psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan opposes to the thesis of the death of God the claim that God is dead from the very beginning. It is just…

…the happy outcome. Is this abandonment not another name for the abyss of freedom? This abandonment to freedom causes anxiety. As Jacques Lacan reinterpreted Freud, not because the divine is far from us, but because it gets all too close to us, since it is…

…The pseudo-intellectual's reaction to this scene is something like, I mean, I even had ex-friends. Because, you know, following the joke of Lacan that I like, my fiancée is never late for an appointment because the moment she is late, she is no longer my…

…status, since it depends wholly upon pathological objects and motivations, pathological in the Kantian sense of empirical contingent. Jacques Lacan aims on the contrary to demonstrate the transcendental status of this faculty of desiring. That is to say, the…

…breaks out in this carnivalesque transgression, suspension of the ruling patriarchal law is the fantasy of the feminine power. Now, when Lacan draws attention to the fact that, in everyday French, one of the designations for the wife is la bourgeoise, that…

…run the show and so on. The problem, I think, runs deeper. One of the consequences of the fact that master, according to Lacan, master is always an imposter, is the duplication of the master. The agency of the master is always perceived as a semblance…

…am a dogmatic Lacanian, I admit it, but at least I have good reasons for it. One of this is that, for example, I met Lacan a couple of times. Okay, he was already half... beyond consciousness, so he didn't know who I am. But the point is that, as…

…half... beyond consciousness, so he didn't know who I am. But the point is that, as everybody knows, and I learned it, Lacan was always, he played a certain, assumed a certain public role, you know, eccentric behavior, it was impossible to speak with him…

…the true ethical position. But okay, let's go on. So we could also say that this, let's return to this knightly, so precisely Lacan, that's my point, was never at home, to put it this way. Okay, let's go on. So this knightly obscene law, we could…

…if you know, there is void, there is nobody home, no person behind. And so a similar case of this state what Lacan would have called l'entre-deux-morts, between the two deaths, where the subject is alive, yet not at home, not integrated into the social…

…Ich, the ego, and Lust, the pleasure, where the non-pleasure, Unlust, is defined in the terms of non-assimilation, of, as Lacan puts it, as what remains irreducible, unassimilable to the pleasure principle. The terms used by Freud and Lacan to describe…

…of, as Lacan puts it, as what remains irreducible, unassimilable to the pleasure principle. The terms used by Freud and Lacan to describe the relationship of this primordial if, ego, and jouissance, enjoyment, perfectly fit the metaphorics of the racist…

…jouissance. But how? What I am tempted to propose is... namely, as a model for a strategy able to incorporate what Lacan called going through fantasy, la traversée du fantasme, I propose a strategy of over-identification, namely, a procedure which takes into…

…But what Jeff, in a way, was asking was the strategy which you implied by referring to the ceaselessly public character of Lacan. as a way of kind of gradually eradicating the obscene privacy. The actual conclusion of your talk, for me, can't end in…

…have to do is step outside of that in a kind of caricature of both, which is what I thought you were describing with Lacan. You can't take a kind of activist egalianism in the sense that I can now end the obverse by constantly exposing it, because all…

…only saying that in the specific situation, this... kind of over-identification at least renders it inoperative. Lacan's strategy, the example of Lacan, the strategy implied in it is again a different one. There is even a third strategy, and here, this is…

…I could have, but I will not now, not to spend too much of your time, develop this opposition, that this opposition, according to Lacan, is not an opposition that covers all of the field of ethics. So for Lacan, To put it very simply, the logic of…

…develop this opposition, that this opposition, according to Lacan, is not an opposition that covers all of the field of ethics. So for Lacan, To put it very simply, the logic of this public law and order is the logic of the public good, of the supreme…

…is the logic of the public good, of the supreme good, of the social good, of the good of all, of social life. But for Lacan, precisely when we evoke the public good, on which is always based the ego ideal, the moment we do this, we already, okay, to…

…the public good, on which is always based the ego ideal, the moment we do this, we already, okay, to refer to Lacan, we already compromise our desire. And as we know, for Lacan, The ethics, the fundamental ethical rule of second analysis precisely do…

…the moment we do this, we already, okay, to refer to Lacan, we already compromise our desire. And as we know, for Lacan, The ethics, the fundamental ethical rule of second analysis precisely do not give way, do not compromise your desire, do not give…

…rule of second analysis precisely do not give way, do not compromise your desire, do not give way as to your desire. So for Lacan, the movement is such that this public law and order ethics, the ethics of the ego ideal, the ethics of the public common…

…Freud's infamous statement that, you know, women has a weaker superego. Precisely because they are more ethical. Because for Lacan, precisely, superego, far from being an ethical category, superego is precisely an obscene category which the very existence of…

…who stands for power in academia. For example, we Lacanians are often mocked by LGBT or other feminists that we are the patriarchal, Lacan, name of the father, power, and so on and so on. Sorry, but We are so dispersed and alone. I mentioned, you know,…

…with the horror of their predicament. I just claim that the way, and I even say that they are not perverted marginals when Lacan says there is no sexual relationship and so on. are the privileged side which embodies this truth and so on and so on.…

…this word because it's not proper here. Normative superiority of transgender people. In what sense? I do this as a Lacanian. For Lacan, the basic premise is il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel. There is no sexual relationship. Which means precisely that what…

…Lacan, the basic premise is il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel. There is no sexual relationship. Which means precisely that what Lacan is reproached with, he... implies too that he remains fully within the binary gender opposition. No, for Lacan the point is…

…that what Lacan is reproached with, he... implies too that he remains fully within the binary gender opposition. No, for Lacan the point is that precisely this opposition always fails. Sexual identity is something, sorry, sexual difference is something which…

…is really a man dressed up as a woman. And again, this is not an exception. This is it. Which is why for Lacan, as he says, the only true heterosexuals are lesbians. Heterosexual men are subspecies of homosexuality. So, again, you see my point. It's not…

…title after one of these accidents, Trump just killed himself, he is dead. You know where they fell? They should have read Lacan a little bit more. Because they totally missed how identification works. We as a rule identify precisely with others. So the…

…how racism is precisely, and since Donald Trump is such a TV, an effect of TV, television, we would want to consider what Lacan says about imagining through the circuitry of television the jouissance of the other and how the other is getting it all. Are…

…true conflict is at the level of this particular race of life. And I agree with you, this is why in some other texts, Lacan... All the honor goes to him. Already in mid-70s, he predicted the rise of new forms of racism as absolutely an inherent part…

…Don't look from us, theoreticians, this type... Okay, I got confused. Not really, but I will give you a clear answer. Jacques Lacan once provided a perfect formula when somebody accused him, but you are preaching in your theory one thing, but you are…

…don't fit gender. the big official binary. You are either masculine or feminine. I would have said that the basic lesson of Lacan, when he repeats how in a padre a porsexual there is no sexual relationship, is that sexual difference is an antagonism which…

…of a man is that the femme fatale he tries to seduce is a man dressed as a woman. So this is why Lacan says something wonderful, that the only true heterosexuals are lesbians, and that there are two types of homosexuality, what we call heterosexuals and…

…on the theme of between philosophy and psychoanalysis. Which means anything about anything. It's essentially about the way in which Lacan is stranded between and against these themes, but I suppose in many ways it also describes Slavoj Žižek's own…

…I liked that sarcastic, brutal beginning, then I stopped watching it. You cannot even rely on Hollywood blockbusters. What remains for us? Lacan theory, I tell you this. Okay, so let's do. Are you? Where is Madison? Ah, you are there, sorry. No, no, you…

…will first like to explain, illustrate through some examples the Lacanian notion of plus de jouir, surplus enjoyment. Because this, for Lacan himself, was his great discovery. Already quoted here in his seminar from 73-74, Les Noms du Père, those who are…

…are not dupe, those are really in the wrong. And of course, it's a pun with Les Noms du Père, names of the father. Lacan asked himself... in his own arrogant way, this is the question that he, Lacan, raises. I quote, what was it that Lacan, who is…

…with Les Noms du Père, names of the father. Lacan asked himself... in his own arrogant way, this is the question that he, Lacan, raises. I quote, what was it that Lacan, who is here present, invented? And then he answers like that to get things going,…

…father. Lacan asked himself... in his own arrogant way, this is the question that he, Lacan, raises. I quote, what was it that Lacan, who is here present, invented? And then he answers like that to get things going, object A, the object small a. so not…

…Then I found some places where they confirm it on the web, and it's such a sad, tragic story, but good illustration of Lacan. He went to, how do you pronounce it correctly, Walmart, that mega... And when he exited the store, he found there just…

…aggressivity. His face becomes twisted in a certain way. disgusting passivity he's so clearly enjoying itself this is at its purest what Lacan calls pleasure in pain surplus enjoyment okay now comes the pleasure at least for me We have to get to the…

…and so on. So, again, This speech, what was my point? It's that if you want to see, to grasp almost physically what Lacan means by jouissance, enjoyment, as opposed to pleasure, it's this. It's this crowd shouting and so on and so on. And I think…

…is fully here. You just make the non-traditional choice and I think, but we don't have time to go into this now, what Lacan does here is much more subversive than the usual It's against gender, Byron, you know, there are 30, 40 sexes. Lacan totally…

…does here is much more subversive than the usual It's against gender, Byron, you know, there are 30, 40 sexes. Lacan totally confuses the categorization. Lacan says somewhere in one of his seminars, ironically, that he's totally for heterosexuality. But then…

…subversive than the usual It's against gender, Byron, you know, there are 30, 40 sexes. Lacan totally confuses the categorization. Lacan says somewhere in one of his seminars, ironically, that he's totally for heterosexuality. But then he says something which…

…way too simplistic. I think a much better reading would be that. No, the love here is an authentic heterosexual love. But, and Lacan says this somewhere, the mystery, what makes this thing so shocking, is not, oh, I'm really a gay. No, I am a…

…is that the beautiful woman is really a man dressed up. as a woman. That is the ultimate heterosexual male fantasy. And Lacan always emphasizes this, that for the majority of men, our of course unconscious dream is this one, it's very difficult for us…

…we want woman, real woman body, just as that sheet, so that we can have our image of whatever it is. And it's, and Lacan has, which is why, for example, I'm sorry if I'm jumping and using some old stuff. Which is why I claim Hitchcock's Vertigo is…

…in him. It's a mortifying love. The only tragically loving person is Judy, but that's another story. So let's go back. What Lacan does is something beautiful here. He complicates the whole scene, pointing out how... You know, I'll put it like this, and…

…should fight for the inclusion of all those marginals and so on. Of course we should to avoid a misunderstanding. But Lacan proposes something which, at least to me, appears much more radical. He proposes that there is something terribly wrong already with…

…cover the true love and so on and so on? But the basic rule, Lacanian reply to this, I think, is that is to do what Lacan did with sexual difference and so on. Again, that it's not enough to say we have the hegemonic order and then we act, speak on…

…should ask what fundamental class antagonism difference is there in the very heart of society whose effects are rebel or in sexuality. For Lacan, why do we have transgender people and so on? Because, as Lacan put it, il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel, there…

…of society whose effects are rebel or in sexuality. For Lacan, why do we have transgender people and so on? Because, as Lacan put it, il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel, there is no sexual relationship. Sexuality in its core is already antagonistic. This…

…is the point where the truth of a field explodes. LGBT, or trans, whatever you call them, people embody the fact that what Lacan would have called it in a pas de rapport sexual. There is no sexual relationship. Which is why I simply don't get it…

…thing yes the name Lacan's name for this impossibility at the core of sexuality is sexual difference sexual difference for Lacan is not men and women But it's some, as it were, self-difference, inner obstacle, self-impediment, which ruins everything. So here,…

…inner obstacle, self-impediment, which ruins everything. So here, people who attacked me on LGBT made a reproach to me and then to Lacan, with which I don't agree. One was, and I don't have, sorry, the names here. Two criticisms which appear to me quite…

…and it sounds almost convincing, that sexual difference is Lacan's fundamental fantasy. This is a theory popular in some circles that Lacan remained too phallogocentric and the Lacan they like is the Lacan of precisely of the surplus, of objectita. And they,…

…sexual difference is Lacan's fundamental fantasy. This is a theory popular in some circles that Lacan remained too phallogocentric and the Lacan they like is the Lacan of precisely of the surplus, of objectita. And they, of course, quote as their sacred…

…fantasy. This is a theory popular in some circles that Lacan remained too phallogocentric and the Lacan they like is the Lacan of precisely of the surplus, of objectita. And they, of course, quote as their sacred passage from Lacan when Lacan says…

…Lacan they like is the Lacan of precisely of the surplus, of objectita. And they, of course, quote as their sacred passage from Lacan when Lacan says that object small a, this surplus enjoyment, is asexual. But the way they read it is simply that there…

…like is the Lacan of precisely of the surplus, of objectita. And they, of course, quote as their sacred passage from Lacan when Lacan says that object small a, this surplus enjoyment, is asexual. But the way they read it is simply that there is some,…

…fundamental fantasy constrained onto it. Here, if you are a Lacanian, you get into your own bureaucratic theology and get it first. Lacan doesn't write, doesn't say that object A is asexual, but that it is A but right in cursive, like object A, asexual.…

…Referring to Alenka Zupancsic's new book, I had the honor of reading the manuscript. I will try to show how Lacan, out of these considerations, proposes a uniquely beautiful theory of analytic act of analytic interpretation, which is not just integrate…

…feel so good that you feel bad and so on. So I will try again to the, because you know why? Because this is what Lacan means by, at the end of the analysis, a new signifier should be produced. It's a much more complex notion. I will develop this…

…this one. The mystery is this one. And this is the big problem for all those who want to dissociate Lacan from philosophy. It's almost impossible. Lacan's fundamental references were always, always philosophers. Name it. pre-Socratics. Lacan has a wonderful…

…dissociate Lacan from philosophy. It's almost impossible. Lacan's fundamental references were always, always philosophers. Name it. pre-Socratics. Lacan has a wonderful reading of Dan in Democritus, Socrates, the basic figure of transferes, Plato, Parmenides,…

…figure of transferes, Plato, Parmenides, Aristotle, Stoics, object A, Aquinas, just name it. The ridiculous answer I get is that Lacan was precisely fighting philosophy. But I think Lacan is doing some subversion of philosophy which is strictly immanent to…

…object A, Aquinas, just name it. The ridiculous answer I get is that Lacan was precisely fighting philosophy. But I think Lacan is doing some subversion of philosophy which is strictly immanent to philosophy. If you take from Lacan the reference of…

…philosophy. But I think Lacan is doing some subversion of philosophy which is strictly immanent to philosophy. If you take from Lacan the reference of philosophy, you simply get another medical treatment science the greatness of Lacan is that he saw that…

…philosophy. If you take from Lacan the reference of philosophy, you simply get another medical treatment science the greatness of Lacan is that he saw that psychoanalysis as a theory has radical philosophical consequences it ruins traditional ontology and so…

…saw that psychoanalysis as a theory has radical philosophical consequences it ruins traditional ontology and so on and so on which is why Lacan is very precise in his Kant with Saab at the beginning when he asks where in the history of ideas does the…

…which began which culminates in Freud, where does it begin? He says Kant. And also, I have a problem with this, but Lacan was an anti-philosopher. But listen, all philosophers from Kant onwards were anti-philosophers, in the sense of none of them wanted to…

…class antagonism as historicizable and therefore it can be overthrown but um Is the structure of sexual difference eternal? I mean, Lacan uses the Matthews and... these kind of ways of approaching the universe? It's a very nice question and because this is…

…that we, by we she means especially John Kobb, Jack and me and now Alenka Zupanchich, all of those who refer to Lacan, that we are closet Kantians, that we propose a certain a priori formal structure which then can be actualized in different forms…

…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 cheating…

…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…

…is this very gap between what I immediately am and the symbolic mandate which confers on me this authority. Which is why, for Lacan, as he puts it, a madman is precisely psychotic, is precisely a subject who denies this gap. As Lacan puts it, a madman…

…this authority. Which is why, for Lacan, as he puts it, a madman is precisely psychotic, is precisely a subject who denies this gap. As Lacan puts it, a madman is not just a beggar who thinks he is a king, but even more, a king who thinks he is a…

…he is a king in himself, of what he naturally is, not because of the symbolic investiture. One has to think of what Lacan calls the phallic signifier not as the organ which immediately expresses the vital force of my being, my virility, but precisely as…

…WikiLeaks? We knew it all, I claim. Of course, not the details, but generally. The one who didn't know is the one called by Lacan the big other, the authority knowledge of the public space. We can act as if we don't know because the big other doesn't…

…were urinating in our pants. We were terrified and so on and so on. That's how you build the myth. And here... Lacan, Jacques Lacan, as a person, did something ingenious. Those who knew him personally were always looking for small private details, signs…

…in our pants. We were terrified and so on and so on. That's how you build the myth. And here... Lacan, Jacques Lacan, as a person, did something ingenious. Those who knew him personally were always looking for small private details, signs of humanity, so…

…signs of humanity, so that they would be able to say, you know, behind the arrogant posture of his performances, you know, Lacan acted with a ridiculously artificial formal way, there is really, don't worry, he's a nice, warm guy like us. And I didn't…

…Lacan acted with a ridiculously artificial formal way, there is really, don't worry, he's a nice, warm guy like us. And I didn't know Lacan, but all who knew him told me that this was the great shock of their lives, that when you met him in private,…

…fantasy, the real, and perhaps not everyone in the audience is familiar with the coordinates of your way of approaching film, Marx, Lacan, et cetera, but perhaps we could hear from you how you think you do and should approach films from the most…

…do I belong? The problem is this one. They, okay, sorry for this arrogance. I will say they didn't read properly Lacan. In what sense? I think that they confuse sexual difference or rather antagonism and prescribed sexual roles following lacombe all our…

…to go now into Lacanian theory, but the basic premise is that what transgender people really want to get rid of is what Lacan in his jargon calls the anxiety of castration. That you are, by entering symbolic order, you are deprived of something. And I…

…By beginning this, we get more and more and more. This is, I think, the only Marxist way. That's how I read Jacques Lacan, who wrote, interpretation is not tested by a truth that would decide by yes or no. Interpretation unleashes truth as much as it…

…What disappears in both cases is sexual difference, which precisely is a kind of a tangent antagonism, and this is what Lacan means when he says, there is no sexual relationship. Sexual difference precisely does not function as a, I think gender theory…

…never definitive, you know, who knows what science will discover and so on and so on. So it's precisely what Lacan would have called from the universal masculine structure of with exception, we have ordinary knowledge about the world, universal, everything,…

…reality, which you know, it's always more, we always have to discover a new truth and so on. Which is why, as Lacan already pointed out, something happens with this surplus element in capitalism, To put it very simply, the surplus becomes accountable. You…

…get at it, you have precisely to reduce things. This is the basic Freudian definition of drive and the pleasure it brings. As Lacan put it in very simple terms, oral drive does not strive for an object for example when a baby is sucking mother's breast…

…here critically disposed against a certain, let's call it paradigm. which, so that people will not say that I'm not critical about Lacan, which you find already even in Lacan, at least up to a certain point. This opposition of a natural balance and…

…call it paradigm. which, so that people will not say that I'm not critical about Lacan, which you find already even in Lacan, at least up to a certain point. This opposition of a natural balance and subjectivity as the site of negativity, excess, and…

…of a natural balance and subjectivity as the site of negativity, excess, and so on and so on. You know, even the early Lacan, at least, who was very close to Sartre, we should never forget this, the secret of early Lacan is Sartre, often repeats this…

…know, even the early Lacan, at least, who was very close to Sartre, we should never forget this, the secret of early Lacan is Sartre, often repeats this motive, how in nature there is sexual relationship, blah, blah, blah, and human subjectivity is a kind…

…modernity, imminently, scientific modernity, means... some explosive expansion, and let's not go to the end. We need a proper limit. As Lacan put it in his short booklet published by Verso here, I think, A Letter to Religious People, something like that,…

…to Religious People, something like that, Lacan's point is precisely that here it's incredible how some religious theorists quote this Lacan as his offering the hand of friendship to Catholics. No, he says there explicitly that today more than ever religion…

…here back to the topic of surplus. It was pure, meaningless surplus. And even every intelligent Darwinian will tell you, Lacan here refers to good Darwinians, that Darwin is not Lamarck. Lamarck has this stupid utilitarian mentality. For example, he claims,…

…food. So gradually, the horn, so how do you call them? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gradually they emerged, you know. So no, what, what, Lacan, Lacan, uses exactly the same word as Gould. The problem of human being is not I want to do something, I don't have…

…food. So gradually, the horn, so how do you call them? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gradually they emerged, you know. So no, what, what, Lacan, Lacan, uses exactly the same word as Gould. The problem of human being is not I want to do something, I don't have the…

…want to do something, I don't have the organ for it and then through gradual adaptation or whatever this organ develops. Lacan says the original situation of not only human beings, of an animal, is that through evolutionary confusion, genetic mess, we have…

…to such an extent that, according to the most ancient traditions, all human order should imitate natural order. The real invented by Lacan is not the real of science, it is a contingent real, random, inasmuch as the natural law of the relations between…

…as the natural law of the relations between the sexes is lacking. It is a hole in the knowledge included in the real. Lacan made use of the language of mathematics, the best support for science. In the formulas of sexuation, for example, he tried to…

…not valid at the level of the real without law. It is not valid except with the rupture between cause and effect. Lacan said it as a joke. If one understands how an interpretation works, it is not an analytic interpretation. In psychoanalysis, As Lacan…

…Lacan said it as a joke. If one understands how an interpretation works, it is not an analytic interpretation. In psychoanalysis, As Lacan invites us to practice it, we experience the rupture of the cause-effect link, the opacity of the link, and this is…

…is a question of psychoanalysis exploring another dimension, that of the defense against the real, without law and without meaning. Lacan indicates this direction with his notion of the real, as Freud does with his mythological concept of drive. The Lacanian…

…with his notion of the real, as Freud does with his mythological concept of drive. The Lacanian unconscious, that of the late Lacan, is at the level of the real, let us say for convenience, below the Freudian unconscious. Again, here I start shooting.…

…is at the level of the real, let us say for convenience, below the Freudian unconscious. Again, here I start shooting. Lacan regresses here to the worst of Jungianism. You know, this is the standard Jungian criticism of Freud, that Freudian unconscious is…

…the desire to reach the real, to reduce the other to its real, and to liberate it of meaning. I would add that Lacan invented a way of representing the real with the Borromean knot. We will ask ourselves how valid this interpretation is. Lacan made use…

…add that Lacan invented a way of representing the real with the Borromean knot. We will ask ourselves how valid this interpretation is. Lacan made use of the knot to arrive at this irremediable zone of existence where one can go no further with two. The…

…this irremediable zone of existence where one can go no further with two. The passion, Lacan's passion, for the Borromean knot led Lacan to the same zone as Oedipus et colonus, where one finds the absolute absence of charity, of fraternity, of any human…

…Miller misses something here, which he gives a well too simplified reading of this pre-modern regularity, as it was noted by Lacan. For example, for ancient Aztecs and other civilizations of sacrifice, the natural real was not simply a regularity that cannot…

…real was not simply a regularity that cannot be perturbed. Ancient Aztecs organized human sacrifices to guarantee what? And that's what Lacan noted. It's a wonderful deal. Why did ancient Aztecs sacrifice people? not to fight against chance, not to make it…

…Miller's search for the pure real outside the symbolic, a real not yet stained by the symbolic, that he attributes to Lacan, I think has to be abandoned. Tragically, Miller gets clear too close to Deleuze. In a very Deleuzian way, repeating literally…

…one. As if we first have the pure pre-Oedipal movement of drives, the direct interpenetration of signifying material intuitions, This is what Lacan means by Lalonde. And as if it is only in a logical, if not temporary, afterward that this flux is ordered.…

…on and so on. My point is here very simple, my approach to Miller. It would be very good for him to read Lacan a little bit. Because from a Lacanian standpoint, something is terribly wrong with this line of reasoning. Miller passes directly from the…

…regular rhythm or its laws, to the pure lawless real, lawless, without law. What goes missing here is, I think, precisely what Lacan calls the real. You know, now we come to the crucial, even philosophical point. For Lacan, What Miller does here is…

…missing here is, I think, precisely what Lacan calls the real. You know, now we come to the crucial, even philosophical point. For Lacan, What Miller does here is something against which Lacan warns us all the time. This idea that the real has some kind…

…real. You know, now we come to the crucial, even philosophical point. For Lacan, What Miller does here is something against which Lacan warns us all the time. This idea that the real has some kind of a substantial presence outside the symbolic, is this…

…repeated here, because as you will immediately see, it has a crucial also theoretical consequence, sorry, political, that for Lacan, the real... is not some substantial presence outside the symbolic. The real is an inherent obstacle impossibility inscribed into…

…The real is something on account of which every symbolization fails. But it's not an external obstacle. In this sense, for Lacan, sexual difference is not binary. It's not male-female. But it's a certain antagonism which, as such, cannot be symbolized. But…

…such, cannot be symbolized. But it doesn't pre-exist, symbolization. The real is the imminent impossibility of the symbolic order itself. Lacan says this literally. The real is a deadlock of formalization. That's Lacan's best formula. And that's how we should…

…to say, she reduces sexual difference to a binary symbolic operation. Men do this, women do that, and so on. But what Lacan does in his formulas of sexuation is exactly the opposite. When Lacan speaks of male position, he doesn't describe a certain set…

…Men do this, women do that, and so on. But what Lacan does in his formulas of sexuation is exactly the opposite. When Lacan speaks of male position, he doesn't describe a certain set of features, but just a certain deadlock. Or to put it in another…

…the pure real that he describes, it's precisely an ideological mask which covers up the antagonism. Not only is this pure, what Lacan describes as pure real, scientific or social or sexual, not only is it not really without law, but there is, okay, not…

…reduced to a machine also. Well, yeah, well, it's the subject, you know, the Lacanian subject. Yes. So if you kind of start with Lacan and you also kind of do a bit of Hegel, there's a passage in book two of Lacan's seminars where he starts to…

…our free thinking is always an empty, blind mechanism. We have to rehabilitate mechanism, symbolic mechanism, this is of course the Lacan uses it, but precisely in its alienating force. It's not a mechanism which is organic part of ourselves, whatever. It's…

…force. It's not a mechanism which is organic part of ourselves, whatever. It's precisely something extremely disruptive. Language is for Lacan. a kind of a stupid i underline stupid mechanical apparatus which takes over a living organism and so on and…

…reasoning to nature and reserves a space for God or for the spiritual domain. Kant does the same. On the one hand, as Lacan and others have long ago noted, Kant's problem is to elaborate a philosophy at the level of Newtonian physics. But the whole…

…I agree. Capitalism is intimately linked to the rise of modern science. Even, and we will return later to this, referring to Lacan, who had this, but I'm thankful to Tomsic to focus attention on this, that what happens already with Descartes, it's a…

…claim that we should look closely, and this is where Tomšić I think neglects things a little bit, in what is for Lacan modern science. And we will see that Lacan's relationship to modern science is much more ambiguous. For Lacan, modern science is defined…

…what is for Lacan modern science. And we will see that Lacan's relationship to modern science is much more ambiguous. For Lacan, modern science is defined by two foreclosures which are connected. The foreclosure of subject and the foreclosure of truth as…

…have to experience it, it's no longer science. Science means precisely what? Ah, this accounts for the second paradoxical thesis of Lacan, that Cartesian subject is the subject of modern science. Namely, Imagine modern science, you just say this is the law,…

…in the commercial sense, but more like radical exclusion, rejection, in the Freudian sense of verwerfung, of truth as cause. What is, for Lacan, la verite, truth as cause? When I commit a slip of tongue and say something other than what I wanted to say,…

…abandon? No. When I tell you it's the same as that old story that I like to use, you know, always. This is the gap that Lacan is insisting on. I've used it a couple of times in my book. In academia, I don't know if it's here the same, but in the…

…of truth is where subjectivity is inscribed. And this dimension is excluded from... is precluded, excluded from... language. How then, back to Lacan, can Lacan, ah, another thing I wanted to explain to you apropos of this, how to put it, Okay, we will…

…is where subjectivity is inscribed. And this dimension is excluded from... is precluded, excluded from... language. How then, back to Lacan, can Lacan, ah, another thing I wanted to explain to you apropos of this, how to put it, Okay, we will return to…

…crucial, but later to this. Now, let's see where we are. Oh, perfect, we have time. So let's go on. How can Lacan claim that the subject of psychoanalysis, the divided subject, the subject traversed by negativity, is the subject of modern science? You…

…I don't know, scientific laws, while in the subject of psychoanalysis, this subjective negativity, resistance, or whatsoever, re-emerges. Ah, Lacan has a nice point here. Modern science, that's crucial for Lacan, as I already indicated with my reference to…

…subjective negativity, resistance, or whatsoever, re-emerges. Ah, Lacan has a nice point here. Modern science, that's crucial for Lacan, as I already indicated with my reference to mathematics, modern science breaks with the traditional universe held together…

…make two more crucial points here, yes. First, so what happens in modern science? Here is a nice quote from Lacan. I would call the state of knowledge before Descartes pre-accumulative. With Descartes, Knowledge, scientific knowledge, is constituted on the…