…but I hope not if you understand it correctly. I claim that the first thing to do is to strictly distinguish what Lacan calls sexual difference in the sense of sexual antagonism and gender identities. It's not the same for Lacan, and that's his point…

…to strictly distinguish what Lacan calls sexual difference in the sense of sexual antagonism and gender identities. It's not the same for Lacan, and that's his point of il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel. It's precisely that sexual difference is a kind of a…

…game in another way. Usually Marxists talk about use value and exchange value. Use value, we know what this is. I claim that Lacan is right when he claims that this couple does not cover the entire field. When we are dealing with a commodity or even…

…field. When we are dealing with a commodity or even an object, of youth that another dimension of value is needed, called by Lacan, cult value. Some other social theorists today call it sign value. Let me take a commodity like stone jeans. It has a use…

…be the bad guy, you decide. But just don't ask me these half an hour questions where you have five strokes on Lacan and... After penetrating beneath the Oedipus complex of desire grounded in prohibition, how do we reintroduce and thus return to the domain…

…by some even religious people is, and they make a correct observation, which you find also among others already in Adorno and Horkheimer and Lacan, of course, is that You can feel this if you read Sade. I did read him, but not a lot. I find it, sorry,…

…metaphysics is coming to an end. So, and then I much prefer here, I must say, this approach, which is that of Deleuze, Lacan, and Badiou, which is more an eclectic approach on, you know, like you take whatever you want from history of philosophy and so…

…the fantasy, as if this is a kind of an ultimate, almost deathly liberation, and so on, and so on. It's not this. Lacan is very precise here. Traversing the fantasy... doesn't mean stepping out of the fantasy in the sense of we are now free for…

…stepping out of the fantasy in the sense of we are now free for some authentic being and so on and so on. Lacan explicitly emphasizes this. Let's not read too much into it. Because, like, again, I'm almost tempted to say that, and Hegel emphasizes this…

…almost tempted to say that, and Hegel emphasizes this again and again, the paradox is that This is the deepest insight of what Lacan calls traversing the fantasy. How? Even if you see the untruth of something, you still have to live in it. You know,…

…to Cinema. I had a conflict with Sophie Fiennes. I think it's theoretically a wrong one, because I'm not a pervert. As Lacan emphasizes all the time, a pervert fits perfectly... every order of power. It's obscene double. Lacan is here a great feminist…

…I'm not a pervert. As Lacan emphasizes all the time, a pervert fits perfectly... every order of power. It's obscene double. Lacan is here a great feminist because Lacan always emphasizes the true revolutionary dimension is in hysteria, not in perversion. So…

…all the time, a pervert fits perfectly... every order of power. It's obscene double. Lacan is here a great feminist because Lacan always emphasizes the true revolutionary dimension is in hysteria, not in perversion. So when you say pervert, you know what…

…pervert, you know what the basic pervert's position is? Hysteria as well as obsessional neurosis as its subspecies. Here Lacan closely follows Freud's indication that obsessional neurosis is not another species. It's a subspecies of hysteria. It's just kind…

…is the social order which provides you with an identification. You are a woman, a teacher, whatever. The hysterical question is, as Lacan puts it very nicely already in his seminar two and three, especially three on psychosis, why am I what you are saying…

…reaction, sorry. I cannot resist being evil. But, no, the point is this one, that... Which is why, you know when Lacan speaks about the lost object of desire? People usually think that it's this boring postmodern bullshit, you know. Whatever we are…

…grabbing, it's never dead. The true object is always elsewhere. No, the original lost object is myself. The original hysterical experience for Lacan, and at the same time, the birth of subjectivity. And it's nicely described by the one who was also up to…

…Lacan, and at the same time, the birth of subjectivity. And it's nicely described by the one who was also up to a point against Lacan, but here he was great, I think. Jean Laplanche did this a lot, of how, let's say you are a small child. You feel…

…other wants from me. It's not just some Levinasian impenetrable other. It's self-identity. What am I for others? But perversion for Lacan and to Lady Freud is precisely a pervert has answers. He doesn't have questions. But a pervert is somebody who says,…

…non-this, how the most sensitive readers of Hegel appear more and more to be women. And this in spite of all the criticism of Lacan and so on, that he's a male chauvinist. Lacan here has nothing to be ashamed. I learned this even from my great enemy,…

…more and more to be women. And this in spite of all the criticism of Lacan and so on, that he's a male chauvinist. Lacan here has nothing to be ashamed. I learned this even from my great enemy, Elizabeth Rudinesco, who wrote that, you know, they claim…

…to be ashamed. I learned this even from my great enemy, Elizabeth Rudinesco, who wrote that, you know, they claim Lacan normativity of heterosexuality, blah, blah. I'm sorry, from the very beginning of the Lacanian school. Gays were totally, simply, without…

…question, accepted as analysts. While all others, IPA and so on, did this only, I don't know when, late 60s and so on. Lacan was by far Lacanian school the first which didn't make any problems by this. So, okay, but nonetheless, sorry, and then I go…

…can terrorize you because I know better than you what is good for you, and so on and so on. And I think that when Lacan says that in psychoanalysis, the analyst occupies the post of object small a, it means exactly the post of the void. It's not the…

…ignorance, not your knowledge. The analyst should just provoke you, confuse you. No, no, he doesn't know anything. I claim that even Lacan here maybe fell into a trap. Namely, why did he... I never was convinced by this idea of short sessions, you know,…

…four minutes. And I know I went through it. Like, if you were lucky, it was four minutes, no? I mean, the idea of Lacan was this one. Most of the psychoanalytic session is blah, blah, blah. You lose time. Only at certain moments towards the end, you…

…strange temporality where to say one true thing You have to talk nonsense for 40 minutes. It's an illusory shortcut, I think, what Lacan is doing there. But nonetheless, and then I didn't forget about the red savior, yes. To return to you, I know I…

…I know I didn't satisfy you, but you see my point here. how should I put it, Guy Le Goffet, an intelligent reader of Lacan, who even I think we should invite him here. John Kobczak invited him, which is a big surprise for French people. He's very…

…crucial one because it's a warning against this, let's call it, transgressive notion of analysis. We step out, and this is why... Lacan later dismissed, didn't like, his seminar on ethics, which is for me too close to Georges Bataille in the sense it is…

…the army and sublation and it's also I mean it's about less than nothing because you conceive it as a kind of sex between Hegel and Lacan do I say this? I don't think I say this is it in the form this is what I wanted to ask you because you have…

…go into all this which I think is a correct reading how you know I'm opposed to this reading that at the very end Lacan had some final shattering insight no I think Lacan reached a certain point of of a deadlock around Seminar 20, and then what he…

…reading how you know I'm opposed to this reading that at the very end Lacan had some final shattering insight no I think Lacan reached a certain point of of a deadlock around Seminar 20, and then what he did later were just failed attempts to come…

…because he basically, I quote one of the passages, openly admits his utter failure. I think it's much more tragic, the fate of Lacan. I also like this as a general reading of thinkers. I think thinkers are a little bit like Shakespeare's games. You have…

…much, like fuck you, why didn't I do this, you know, discover this. He introduces a certain wonderful distinction, claiming that Lacan, that sometimes it's not the same thing to say there is no sexual relationship and there is a non-relationship. And all…

…it's not the same thing to say there is no sexual relationship and there is a non-relationship. And all the last Lacan hinders on this oscillation, you know, which incidentally, if some of you know philosophy, it's very close to the beautiful Kantian…

…among them. That's nothing. That's bullshit. And Guillaume Goffet is right when he hints that even Miller... the great interpreter of Lacan, makes this mistake sometimes. For example, when he interprets Il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel as simple, how shall I…

…fit. But this is not it. This is simply eternal struggle, disharmony, and so on. This is part of classical mythology. What Lacan is saying by his Iñapadra porsexual is something much more radical. The contradiction, I developed this, read my big fat book…

…you notice a very strange thing? My God, I was so mad at her again. Fuck her, why didn't I observe this? Not once does Lacan use the term sexual difference. No, he is not in this domain. For Lacan, if you read his formulas of sexuation, it's not that…

…didn't I observe this? Not once does Lacan use the term sexual difference. No, he is not in this domain. For Lacan, if you read his formulas of sexuation, it's not that there is an eternal disharmony between masculine-feminine position. No, the disharmony,…

…position. No, the disharmony, the rupture, disparity is within each position. You know, it's twice missed identity. It's as if almost for Lacan, there is one sex and there are two ways to fail to be that sex. Again, Lacan has, because the moment you…

…missed identity. It's as if almost for Lacan, there is one sex and there are two ways to fail to be that sex. Again, Lacan has, because the moment you go into this eternal disharmony and so on, eternal struggle of sexes, then you are at the level of…

…I didn't lose my thread, exactly the same formula. I would have said that there is a... non-relationship within Hegel and within Lacan. They both screw it up. So it's definitely, of course, not a matter of bringing them together. And I especially emphasize…

…such a dogmatic? And I tell them, okay, I can immediately enumerate to you passages where I clearly point at unresolved problem in Lacan. Lacan, show me one passage in your work where you do the same to Judith Butler. And this, with my friend, Avital…

…a dogmatic? And I tell them, okay, I can immediately enumerate to you passages where I clearly point at unresolved problem in Lacan. Lacan, show me one passage in your work where you do the same to Judith Butler. And this, with my friend, Avital Ronel.…

…claim. I almost think that today the subversive thing would be to adopt a kind of a simply dogmatic attitude. You can criticize Lacan and Hegel. I am for Lacan and for Hegel. They were both right and so on. Of course, there are empirically problems,…

…the subversive thing would be to adopt a kind of a simply dogmatic attitude. You can criticize Lacan and Hegel. I am for Lacan and for Hegel. They were both right and so on. Of course, there are empirically problems, like they were not right. But my…

…the beauty, you guessed it, from socialism, it took the name. But you see the point? That's the point of identity. Whereas Lacan puts it in a wonderful way, the signifier falls into the signified. You need the signifier to guarantee the identity. That's…

…totally different, bone is another type of object but Hegel is here a materialist when he says spirit is a bone or as Lacan put it somewhere, subject is what is not an object, but this negation is inherent to the object, it's a very subtle point,…

…paradox of a positive entity whose substantial truth is just negation, it's literally the embodiment of nothing. This is also for Lacan and for Hegel a subject, this level of self relating is something that simply to put it simply that Brandon ignores.…

…comments reactions reflections and then move towards death drive a little bit of my new variations on my internal eternal sorry topic Lacan Hegel then tomorrow it's the boring part but I love it it's a You know who is Robert Brandom, the high priest…

…mood, and she says, no problem, I'm also not in the mood. That must have been too loud, I think. Well, you know, if Lacan knew it well, Sex, without these rhetorical detours and so on, is simple animal trafficking. There is none of what we call sexual…

…sex. They are not on the same side. Because like with the coffee, let's speak about the coffee. So the coffee, let's say he read Lacan, he read Lacan and he think, come for a coffee with me, let's have sex. She read Sisu and she said, come for a…

…not on the same side. Because like with the coffee, let's speak about the coffee. So the coffee, let's say he read Lacan, he read Lacan and he think, come for a coffee with me, let's have sex. She read Sisu and she said, come for a coffee with me,…

…you a hint. What, just an indication, this is of course not an analysis, what Marx didn't see is The paradox which Jacques Lacan, my teacher, identified as the paradox of what he calls objectita, object kleines A, the object cause of desire, which is an…

…that small element which seems to disturb the perfection, and you lose this potential virtual perfection itself. This is the paradox Lacan is aiming at, that You have, let's put it in abstract terms, an ideal, but some small element disturbs it. But…

…here on the side of Adorno and his award against Habermas because, why? The greatness of Adorno and Benjamin and others is that Lacan says the same on the very cover of Ecris. He says, our battle is the battle of enlightenment going on. Adorno always…

…maybe find it at its purest. You have this, you may agree with them or not, these big names, public intellectuals, Lacan, I don't know, Lacan, Deleuze, and so on. But they were extremely marginalized, practically, totally excluded from academic life. And…

…its purest. You have this, you may agree with them or not, these big names, public intellectuals, Lacan, I don't know, Lacan, Deleuze, and so on. But they were extremely marginalized, practically, totally excluded from academic life. And here, to return to…

…sees that after a session, 50 minutes, he's not this Lacanian cheater, but the traditional one. Although I must say, I understand Lacan. I never could even imagine myself being an analyst, but I would certainly be for short sessions, and you can imagine…

…come to your point a little more of, ooh, desire impossible, it always eludes us, and so on, and this pseudo-tragedy. Lacan is basically a comic theorist, I claim, which doesn't mean he's not talking about horrors. The whole lesson of psychoanalysis is…

…But at the same time, we cannot ever get rid of it. You know, and that would be very simplistic, classic interpretation for Lacan, for example, and I know what I'm talking about because I am the one, obsessional, wait, you have to look three seconds at…

…can we do about it. But I claim two things. First, that, and I develop this repeatedly in my books, that real for Lacan is not substantial but it's most radical you know you should forget about all this shitty pseudonyms and poetry which to be lacon…

…about yesterday, accompanied by trigger warnings, you know, like danger, revisionism. Namely, the way he describes the subjective position, he, Lacan, in 7.7, of Antigone as that... of other living dead, which is too strong, it blinds us, too strong, we…

…none of that. So what I want to say is that this, I find it crucial that the real, at its innermost for Lacan, it's a purely formal entity. Imagine a certain space, let's call it a symbolic space, structured around a certain central impossibility. But…

…Imagine a certain space, let's call it a symbolic space, structured around a certain central impossibility. But this impossibility for Lacan does not have a positive cause. It's not some real from outside which puts, it's a totally immanent structure of…

…not have a positive cause. It's not some real from outside which puts, it's a totally immanent structure of impossibility. And for Lacan, this is one of the ways to read his known all. Every symbolic space is structured around a certain impossibility. And…

…to the symbolic order as its own immanent impossibility. This is why this pseudo-Kantian, this is why I always claim that Lacan is, in this great formal sense, Hegelian, not Kantian. Because the Kantian reading is the real is the thinking. it always…

…hegel precisely imagine again a certain symbolic space it has a real it's real in prevents you to say it all or whatever and Lacan goes even a step further here that the real which is usually taken as the Lacanian real there must be some horrible thing…

…to say now is that the moment you define the real like this, it becomes clear how. And that's the whole point of Lacan. He's more of an optimist here. For Lacan, the whole point of psychoanalytic treatment is that through the symbolic, we can affect the…

…define the real like this, it becomes clear how. And that's the whole point of Lacan. He's more of an optimist here. For Lacan, the whole point of psychoanalytic treatment is that through the symbolic, we can affect the real. And why? Because you can. I…

…Yeah. No, I don't have a big theory there, but I will say something else. Although I don't like Eric Laurent, follower of Lacan, who is one of the right-wingers now. Yeah, unfortunately. But he wrote a nice text on political reasons and racism, where he…

…now. Yeah, unfortunately. But he wrote a nice text on political reasons and racism, where he had a nice idea that for Lacan, that Lacan supplements Freud here. For Freud, we know the foundational gesture of a society is to kill the father, the dead…

…unfortunately. But he wrote a nice text on political reasons and racism, where he had a nice idea that for Lacan, that Lacan supplements Freud here. For Freud, we know the foundational gesture of a society is to kill the father, the dead father returns…

…privately I have I think that there is something in the structure of today's power which works like that. And I follow here Lacan who, and Badiou, who read in this way, you know Jean Genet, his play Balcony, Balcony, that that's the basic, that the how…

…sense that it's not me, it's this radical alienation. My power is out there in the insignia. The point developed already by Lacan in his reading of Genet's play, I'm not even sure in which seminar, and then Badiou in his nice short book, Pornography…

…your logic, you know. My God, I don't play this game. And here I, I'm sorry for repeating this, but here I appreciate Lacan. Jacques Lacan. Because, I'm sorry if you know the story, but it's a crucial one, subjective. All the people around Lacan, when…

…you know. My God, I don't play this game. And here I, I'm sorry for repeating this, but here I appreciate Lacan. Jacques Lacan. Because, I'm sorry if you know the story, but it's a crucial one, subjective. All the people around Lacan, when he was still…

…appreciate Lacan. Jacques Lacan. Because, I'm sorry if you know the story, but it's a crucial one, subjective. All the people around Lacan, when he was still alive, were bothered by this, you know, Lacan was even more of a clown than myself, although this…

…story, but it's a crucial one, subjective. All the people around Lacan, when he was still alive, were bothered by this, you know, Lacan was even more of a clown than myself, although this is maybe difficult to imagine. He was playing a certain role in…

…desire that, you know, don't worry, in private he's a good, warm guy like ourselves. I asked many people about this who knew Lacan from close. And I don't know if it's true, but they all told me the same story, that it was monstrous. many reasons…

…precisely the true neighbor. Face is not covered. It's basically you see what is beneath the face, the horror. Because that's for Lacan, even for Hegel, a true subjectivity. The stupid face you laugh hypocritical as we are, it's a must. It's just that,…

…Lacanian real, which is, I'm sorry if you know this lesson, but it's very important against any theological mystification of Lacan. It's not just impossible. Impossible in the sense that it's never a pure universality. Every universality is always colored by…

…okay, this always was. The point is that you immediately discover it, sorry, experience it as universal. And this is the beauty of Lacan. We don't have time to go into this. Because there is a particular object which, as it were, gives body to this…

…to go into this. Because there is a particular object which, as it were, gives body to this universality. But this object is what Lacan calls object vita. Because it's precisely devoid in body and so on and so on. But, okay, we can go in here, but we…

…priori. Well, Lacan's answer is precisely there is. And this is object A, the whole structure of desire. The whole point of Lacan, maybe this would be one wonderful way to conceptualize Lacan, to say that he wrote the fourth unwritten Kant's critique, a…

…is object A, the whole structure of desire. The whole point of Lacan, maybe this would be one wonderful way to conceptualize Lacan, to say that he wrote the fourth unwritten Kant's critique, a critique of pure desire. Because for Lacan, Desire. Desire is…

…way to conceptualize Lacan, to say that he wrote the fourth unwritten Kant's critique, a critique of pure desire. Because for Lacan, Desire. Desire is always contingent, particular. For Lacan, there is total desire. Okay, so let's go on. I guess, okay, I…

…he wrote the fourth unwritten Kant's critique, a critique of pure desire. Because for Lacan, Desire. Desire is always contingent, particular. For Lacan, there is total desire. Okay, so let's go on. I guess, okay, I did. Mostly, let me go a little bit on…

…almost analogous to Lacan's notion that the structure of the unconscious is similar or analogous to a language. Yeah, but even here with Lacan, you know, now I will be critical so that you will not think that I'm dogmatic. I will be critical even against…

…you know, now I will be critical so that you will not think that I'm dogmatic. I will be critical even against Lacan himself. Lacan likes to make this sweeping abstract rather. How far does it work in real detailed analysis, you know? Because what's…

…now I will be critical so that you will not think that I'm dogmatic. I will be critical even against Lacan himself. Lacan likes to make this sweeping abstract rather. How far does it work in real detailed analysis, you know? Because what's so problematic…

…abstract rather. How far does it work in real detailed analysis, you know? Because what's so problematic is that when, what Lacan does after this peak, you know, you can see like royal announcement with trumpets, blah, blah, blah, unconscious structured like…

…examples. Usually it's Signorelli from psychoanalysis of everyday life and so on. A lot more of work is needed there. Although Lacan is on top something there. It's this counterintuitive approach of signifier. my enemy to conclude my talk. To conclude that…

…said, and he said, oh, this must be a naughty guy, arrogant, somebody told. But... Here I have a problem. Here Lacan is onto something. And some intelligent, really bright cognitivists, I'm not dismissive of brain sciences, cognitivism as such, get into it,…

…because... We need it because, okay, now we go into Lacanian legacy, my Blackenian theory, my point would have been because, as Lacan says, il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel. It doesn't work without it. If you want sex without fantasy, without fantasy…

…Hegel knew, again in a very Kierkegaardian way, is that you can sustain all the edifice of mediation, but you need, like what Lacan calls Le Point de Capitaine, quilting point, you need an immediacy. This is the moment to ask you, since we are going to…

…sex in a way always was virtual. Virtual in the sense that I already described it. That precisely, how do you put it, Lacan, Jacques Lacan says somewhere, I think, that real sex, that sex has a structure of masturbation. In the sense that, as I said…

…a way always was virtual. Virtual in the sense that I already described it. That precisely, how do you put it, Lacan, Jacques Lacan says somewhere, I think, that real sex, that sex has a structure of masturbation. In the sense that, as I said already…

…an ordinary jerk, the moment he puts this on, it's as if he is transubstantiated, you know. So this is for Lacan phallic signifier. It's precisely something discentered, something which you never own, and castration is this, Lacanian name for this gap. You…

…bothers you. that image to put her finger like that up or whatever. You focus on some tiny feature which is precisely what Lacan calls the surplus enjoyment. And this is why the most perfidious critique of the WikiLeaks accusation is to say, of course we…

…Okay, please make them brief so a lot of people can talk. Thank you. Thank you. First of all, happy birthday to Jacques Lacan. To whom? Jacques Lacan. When did he? Lacan, today is his birthday. Ah, today? Yeah. No, I usually, in my mind, I rather…

…them brief so a lot of people can talk. Thank you. Thank you. First of all, happy birthday to Jacques Lacan. To whom? Jacques Lacan. When did he? Lacan, today is his birthday. Ah, today? Yeah. No, I usually, in my mind, I rather celebrate, wasn't it a…

…of people can talk. Thank you. Thank you. First of all, happy birthday to Jacques Lacan. To whom? Jacques Lacan. When did he? Lacan, today is his birthday. Ah, today? Yeah. No, I usually, in my mind, I rather celebrate, wasn't it a week ago or when,…

…there is Another way of cheating there, it's not so much at the empirical level, what they are doing there, but you know, as Lacan, Lacan usually says that comedy is a phallic affair, but what does he mean by this? He somehow puts it in very simple…

…is Another way of cheating there, it's not so much at the empirical level, what they are doing there, but you know, as Lacan, Lacan usually says that comedy is a phallic affair, but what does he mean by this? He somehow puts it in very simple terms,…

…toilet, so his head explodes, He comes out, he's just burned here and so on, you know, this art wellness. I think, again, that Lacan, in his reading of Kant with Sade, points out how you find the same mystery in Sade. The victims in Sade, Norris of…

…to hold the place of the void. You need it. Sorry? Yes and no. We don't have time here. Things get so complicated. Because Lacan was precisely in those years he proposed the notion of point de capitone in seminar 3 on psychosis. Then he used it for…

…point, then with, of course, at the end you get master signifier. No? But again, it gets very complex. Because again, if you read Lacan, you know what's the problem with him? I was like this. He cheats all the time. Cheats in the sense that he... Even…

…know, for example, in one of his most famous seminars, Seminar 7, translated for a long time, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, there, Lacan developed his notions of Kant with Satan, and also of this relationship between law and desire. And at the very end of…

…he elevates desire itself into the supreme law, as it were. It's something, again, it's something totally different. For example, Antigone, for Lacan, her desire is her law, her law, okay, her maxim, and so on and so on. You know, so it's a different…

…women, a cow, and a worm. Then the next one, take two dogs, two women, and one man. You know, you lose. So, as Lacan notes it intelligently, in so far as for Kant, the basic point is that the proper ethics should be without paths. You shouldn't enjoy,…

…fact of belonging to certain community. Yes? Would that be the unconscious? What is really unconscious? It's clear, I agree here with Lacan, that unconscious is much more, it's not simply there is something deep in me or whatever beyond my God. What is…

…the thought of the dream brings in the unconscious. Here things get wonderfully complicated and so on and so on. So again Lacan was fighting all some kind of a primordial, instinctual universe where whatever the home is, is the end. The unconscious is the…

…immediate rational. Unconscious is even more reflected in this way, you know. And that's the entire problem of how to read Lacan to Freud or Freud to through Lacan. Maybe I should conclude with this. For example, for Lacan, the most elementary definition…

…reflected in this way, you know. And that's the entire problem of how to read Lacan to Freud or Freud to through Lacan. Maybe I should conclude with this. For example, for Lacan, the most elementary definition of the unconscious is something like, you…

…problem of how to read Lacan to Freud or Freud to through Lacan. Maybe I should conclude with this. For example, for Lacan, the most elementary definition of the unconscious is something like, you know, the discourse of the other. Yeah, okay, but what did…

…not true. So we have in this sense truth which more refers to some authentic subjective position, we have this opposition. But Lacan is aiming at something slightly different here, I claim. It's not in this sense that we have the truth is this higher…

…hundreds of millions of children killed in abortion at the true Holocaust? What about this and so on? So again, to present this. Lacan also uses this term pathetically in his Ecris, where he says, ver non quo, me anglici, I tell you the secret, I truth…

…I already developed this here, I think, in the same way that enjoyment. It's not only impossible, that would be this negative theological Lacan, the worst, but at the same time, you cannot reach it, but you cannot escape it. No, because no matter how you…

…How much energy is released when two bodies hit each other? You cannot escape, it sticks to you. But the same goes for Lacan for truth. You think the problem is not just People usually quote just that Lacan, the postmodern Lacan, La Verite en un…

…it sticks to you. But the same goes for Lacan for truth. You think the problem is not just People usually quote just that Lacan, the postmodern Lacan, La Verite en un Coquelin, me dear. You can just half say it. You cannot say the whole truth. No, but…

…you. But the same goes for Lacan for truth. You think the problem is not just People usually quote just that Lacan, the postmodern Lacan, La Verite en un Coquelin, me dear. You can just half say it. You cannot say the whole truth. No, but there is…

…playing those games. I am here at the Lacanian. You know that wonderful joke, I always quote it, you must have known, by Lacan, this is my attitude towards time, you know, my fiancée is never late for an appointment, because the moment she is late, she…

…incredibly complicated in the sense of the question, whose question. If you know this, then you probably also know that for Lacan, and here another half-Lacanian, Jean Laplanche, wrote... Okay, he didn't write it. Some of his best essays are collected in a…

…lost object of desire. Let me repeat the old line because it's important. According to common sense, even some wrong reading of Lacan, desire is the object of desire, the true object is incestuous, it's forever lost, so there is forever law, you know, all…

…object of desire, the true object is incestuous, it's forever lost, so there is forever law, you know, all this turning of Lacan into some kind of a stupid negative theological judgment. you know, like, oh, the object is always lost, we just get metonymic…

…misunderstanding, that, that, yes, in this sense that the object of desire is lost, this, all this, almost theology of lack in Lacan, the fundamental fact, this lack and so on, Ah, but Lacombe Mendeleevich is not an idiot. You know what he knows very…

…more it returns in the guise of a symptom or whatever and so on and so on. So, you know, that's the finesse of Lacan. Lacanian real is not some big absence. It's even more something you cannot ever get rid of. You know, the classic example here would…

…become invested by the same dirty enjoyment. You start to enjoy the rituals. So you know, this is the ABC of also what Lacan means by enjoyment as real. It's precisely this combination of, this may be the best definition of the real, that it's impossible…

…you can't get rid of it. And I think this second part is missed a little bit by Gilles Deleuze's critique of Lacan. Deleuze emphasizes too much this negative theological aspect of Lacan. Everything is prohibited, it's forever lost. No, it's not lost. Let's…

…part is missed a little bit by Gilles Deleuze's critique of Lacan. Deleuze emphasizes too much this negative theological aspect of Lacan. Everything is prohibited, it's forever lost. No, it's not lost. Let's go on. So again, what you find in La Plonge…

…I don't know what I want. The ultimate lost object of desire is the desiring subject itself. That's why for Lacan, when He analyzes the hysterical structure and defines femininity as hysterical. In its structure, Lacan's point is profoundly feminist here.…

…of, I see that others project, expect something into me, from me, but what is this? What am I for the others and for Lacan? For Lacan, the The ultimate question of desire is this one. It's not this stupid teleology, do I really want that, don't I want…

…that others project, expect something into me, from me, but what is this? What am I for the others and for Lacan? For Lacan, the The ultimate question of desire is this one. It's not this stupid teleology, do I really want that, don't I want something?…

…it's what am I? Desire is in this sense originally intersubjective. That the original lost object is me, myself. And for Lacan, subjectivity is absolutely correlative with me being lost object for myself. Which is why, and if anything for Lacan, Male…

…And for Lacan, subjectivity is absolutely correlative with me being lost object for myself. Which is why, and if anything for Lacan, Male subjectivity is a compromise. To give you the most succinct elementary definition of male subjectivity for Lacan is that…

…if anything for Lacan, Male subjectivity is a compromise. To give you the most succinct elementary definition of male subjectivity for Lacan is that its structure is perverse. Perverse is for Lacan precisely that you avoid this terrible gap of what for an…

…To give you the most succinct elementary definition of male subjectivity for Lacan is that its structure is perverse. Perverse is for Lacan precisely that you avoid this terrible gap of what for an object I am, and you assume that you are an object…

…terrible gap of what for an object I am, and you assume that you are an object instrument. You know, because as Lacan puts it nicely, Hysterical subjects, inclusive obsessional neurotics, who are also, you should always bear in mind this, we don't have…

…objects, instruments of historical will. We know where history goes and we are instruments to realize that will, which is why Again, Lacan is far from dismissing the hysterical subjectivity. The first hint you get here is that for Lacan, in contrast to the…

…will, which is why Again, Lacan is far from dismissing the hysterical subjectivity. The first hint you get here is that for Lacan, in contrast to the standard metaphysics, which claims men are subjects, women are objects, for Lacan, if you want to put it…

…you get here is that for Lacan, in contrast to the standard metaphysics, which claims men are subjects, women are objects, for Lacan, if you want to put it in sex terms, subjectivity is a such feminine. And masculine subjectivity always involves a minimum…

…subjectivity always involves a minimum of escape from the obfuscation of the abyss of subjectivity. Which is why, for Lacan also, two further political and theoretical, one political, one theoretical consequence from here For Lacan, for example, what's the…

…Which is why, for Lacan also, two further political and theoretical, one political, one theoretical consequence from here For Lacan, for example, what's the status of science? Science as a discourse. It's not what Lacan calls university discourse. University…

…consequence from here For Lacan, for example, what's the status of science? Science as a discourse. It's not what Lacan calls university discourse. University discourse is the institutionalization of science, but science in its inventive moment, as it were,…

…simplistic idea, even Freud, wrongly formulated one, when he says, perverts do all that hysterics only dream about doing. No, Lacan at the same time says, this is so important for clinics, that nowhere is the unconscious more obfuscated, inaccessible than…

…this is so important for clinics, that nowhere is the unconscious more obfuscated, inaccessible than perversion. So perversion is for Lacan, even if you do all the horrible things, whatever perverts do, it's repression at its most radical. So, Laplanche, ah,…

…was a beautiful gesture from a humanitarian standpoint. It was a mega mistake from a clinical point, because Wolfman was, as Lacan says somewhere, the first pure borderline patient, which means on the edge of psychosis, paranoia, and typically This is why…

…do that, because it would be... Maybe we can do it okay on next Monday if you want, you know. These four discourses is maybe Lacan at his best. It's a simple four formulas and it's so productive in the sense that it really works as a position. But I…

…it into this stupid explanatory title on feminine enjoyment and sexuality, whatever, you know, as if you are so stupid. So Lacan, there, defines God in this way. God doesn't exist, but he inexists, inexistons divi. Like, that's the whole point, how…

…Like, that's the whole point, how something, even if it doesn't exist, it can have its efficiency precisely as a fix. And Lacan refers here to those paradoxes of Stoic logic, you know. They were the first to elaborate this, that you cannot draw from…

…Of course you can draw from true a true one. But you can sometimes draw from a false premise a true conclusion. And Lacan says, that's the status of God. It doesn't matter. We can presume that it's false, but you can draw true conclusions about…

…on. So, now comes, I think I already mentioned it, I just want to read you the quote. Now comes the beauty. Lacan defines exactly in this sense This so much maligned, but also celebrated notion, this feminine enjoyment beyond phallic enjoyment. What is so…

…so much maligned, but also celebrated notion, this feminine enjoyment beyond phallic enjoyment. What is so nice about this notion in Lacan is that first, she doesn't say it exists, you know? Some wrong readings substantialize it, in the sense that our…

…enjoyment is just mediated by language, alienated, but we mean real Gothic, real enjoyment, real, full, multi-orgasmic, whatever. No! For Lacan, in a very elegant way, she claims that if anything It's family enjoyment, which is much more in language. In…

…just talks about it and it's intensely erotic. There is no flashback and so on. You know, that would be... This is for Lacan, feminine enjoyment. We men are too stupid. For us, you talk to the... Sorry, I'm imitating vulgar machonis now. You talk to the…

…and so on and so forth. So you see, the beauty is this one, that something as central as feminine enjoyment for Lacan is Its existence can be purely counterfactual, but nonetheless, it functions. You know, it's like, you know all those stupid, well-known…

…I don't dream about it. Again, of course, this is not reality, but it's a myth about, and I agree with you, even Lacan has somewhere precisely this theory, that even one death is not enough. For example, Lacan says this is not about women, but about…

…about, and I agree with you, even Lacan has somewhere precisely this theory, that even one death is not enough. For example, Lacan says this is not about women, but about psychotics. He says somewhere that to produce a really good psychotic you need at…

…structuralism, talks about, it's a crucial term, about, he defines his position as transcendental empiricism. Are you saying that Lacan and Althusser were transcendentalists? I mean strong structuralism. With Lacan, That's the problem with Lacan. Up to a…

…defines his position as transcendental empiricism. Are you saying that Lacan and Althusser were transcendentalists? I mean strong structuralism. With Lacan, That's the problem with Lacan. Up to a certain point, he was. It's clear. Up to what point? When he…

…empiricism. Are you saying that Lacan and Althusser were transcendentalists? I mean strong structuralism. With Lacan, That's the problem with Lacan. Up to a certain point, he was. It's clear. Up to what point? When he liked to emphasize, especially in…

…larger and then at some point somebody says, it's stupid, why carry so many which means the fundamental lesson of psychoanalysis for Lacan is that, again, we cannot step out of language. Language is always already here. All we know is, and I developed…

…You know his book about structuralism, which is, by the way, not his best book, The Prison House of Language, no? that for Lacan, it's not so much a prison house, but even, says this somewhere, it's a torture house of language. The basic idea is that…

…time to go into it, I think in no way underprivileges women. It's not that women are not castrated, women are castrated. For Lacan, you don't have time to go into it. The signifier fall is precisely the signifier of castration. In the sense that the…

…you are castrated. But that's another thing. My answer to you would have been yes, but then things get complicated with late Lacan, with the real. The real is precisely a dimension which cannot be accounted for in the terms of castration. Okay, I will…

…is so provocative in Freud is not the irrationality of drives of sexuality but how discursive rational they are. This is what Lacan means with his unconsciously structured like language and so on and so on. That even drives if you take the chapter in…

…about machine artificial. Drives have nothing to do with some instinctual authenticity and so on and so on. And I think Lacan is right. There is nothing in the Jungian says archetypal about drives and so on. They are contingent symbolic constructs and…

…right. There is nothing in the Jungian says archetypal about drives and so on. They are contingent symbolic constructs and so on. Lacan even here you can see where Judith Butler goes a little bit too quickly. even locates the very discovery of Oedipus…

…a prostitute like two, three times a week or something like that. It's totally crazy. So what I'm saying is that Lacan shows nicely that Freud was able to formulate Oedipus complex precisely because in social reality Oedipus complex was already in crisis.…

…what it's all about, how you make love, and you no longer need all these fantasies. The basic insight of Freud and of Lacan is that with regard to sexuality, we never reach maturity. No matter how adult we are, we always need something that fits the…

…do it on a beach, on an exotic... The lesson of all this, you see, is that the infantile... fantasies never disappear. What Lacan means by there is no sexual relationships is precisely this, that we never grow mature. To the end, sex needs a phantasmatic…

…the history of the greatest advocate of this view, of Christianity. Here is an important passage, but always ignored, from Jacques Lacan from his encore, Seminar XX on Feminine Sexuality. I quote it. Christ, even when resurrected from the dead, is valued…

…someone who has just come back from an orgy of churches in Italy, but without copulation, end of quote. So Lacan is very clear here. One should reject the endlessly repeated critical thesis that the Catholic sexual morality imposes normative heterosexuality…

…Hegel, namely why is Christianity�Lacon made this point nicely�why is Christianity so�sorry, why is sexuality so traumatic for Christianity? Lacan spells out the secret. It's not that because we have a big struggle between spirituality of belief and brutal…

…okay, a nice question, but what I would have said is that first, we always have in all great theorists, Hegel, Freud, even Lacan, up to his neck, we have inconsistencies in the sense that they say one thing, but they actually, if you follow their…

…Nietzsche. I openly admit it. I have problems, didn't succeed. But here about Eve, I agree you know where also. When Lacan says that woman is, by definition, hysterical, this is usually dismissed as male chauvinism. No, but Lacan means almost the opposite.…

…where also. When Lacan says that woman is, by definition, hysterical, this is usually dismissed as male chauvinism. No, but Lacan means almost the opposite. The opposite of hysterical subject is here either master or a pervert. And Lacan praises hysteria.…

…chauvinism. No, but Lacan means almost the opposite. The opposite of hysterical subject is here either master or a pervert. And Lacan praises hysteria. Master is an idiot, by definition. Master is the one who really thinks that he's a master, blah, blah.…

…an idiot, by definition. Master is the one who really thinks that he's a master, blah, blah. Pervert is the worst for Lacan. It's a very interesting position. I agree with it, that Lacan is totally opposed to this celebration of perverse position as more…

…that he's a master, blah, blah. Pervert is the worst for Lacan. It's a very interesting position. I agree with it, that Lacan is totally opposed to this celebration of perverse position as more radical than hysteria it was fashionable when I was young in…

…better new master while hysteria sorry while a pervert goes to the end really does it. I claim, on the contrary, that Lacan was right when he emphasized that pervert position always fits a power structure. The true subversive position is that of hysterical…

…that pervert position always fits a power structure. The true subversive position is that of hysterical subject, which is why, for Lacan, he even says that science, once it is established as part of institution is university discourse, but that science in…

…means to be a self-murdering, self-killing psychotic or whatever. I mean, what I mean by there is no big other is simply what Lacan calls, like, there is no other of the other, no transcendental guarantee, contingency of the act, and so on and so on.…

…with Buddhism is elsewhere, but it's true that the same as Buddhism, I also, and I say this, it's with Hegel and with Lacan. Look, with Hegel, we had, it was even predominant for some time, the conservative Hegel. Hegel was read as a critique of this…

…Beyond Interpretation. It was really an ingenious move where he claimed that hysteria is precisely A gesture of problematizing interpolation. As Lacan pointed out, the fundamental hysterical question is, who am I in the sense of, why am I what you, the big…

…me why do you love me? And the instinct is right, I think, here. That's the enigma. I mean, this is why for Lacan, hysteria is the basic subversive attitude. And what the hysteric knows perfectly is that Perversion is not truly subversive. It closes the…

…ruined their thought. So they tried to keep that secret, no? And we, Slovene, my Slovene school, have similar problems with Hegel and Lacan. We are no longer just playing this game, Hegel and Lancon together can save us. We are trying to make a move…

…that, you know, you go there, I envy my brother. He got to screw that beautiful lady. And they explain to you, no, as Lacan said, your desire is the desire of the other. Don't you see the desire? I think... I think, again, I think that it radically…

…don't know which one, I think it is less than nothing, my book. The starting point of Christianity, for me, should be, as Lacan says in Encore, that God doesn't exist but exists. hyphen exists. It means exists out of itself, exists through our belief in…

…way that, you know, God is waiting to hear, do I really exist, and so on, you know, as if believers decide about him. Now, as Lacan put it long ago, God is dead but doesn't know that he is dead. That's why he lives. In this case, we should add that…

…is ultimately creepy. And this is what makes him a neighbor, not just a fellow man. You know, this is the key distinction for Lacan already for Freud. The fellow man is the one who is like us. You can identify with him and so on. Fellow man becomes…

…and a dog, and they do it in this way. Then you take two cows, three men, and it's totally boring. The only enigma, and Lacan saw this nicely, is... Why did he write about it? You know what I mean? His writing, not in some sublime, the very act of…

…Hysteria is this perplexity. Why is she doing it? But in a pervert there is no perplexity. The very definition for Freud and Lacan of a pervert is he knows what he wants. This is why incidentally also that the ABC of psychoanalytic clinic, perverts are…

…perverts are revolutionaries. We do it. No. I think we should exactly turn it around. There is a constant in Lacan and Freud already. For example, Freud says something beautiful somewhere. He says that... Nowhere is the unconscious more inaccessible, excluded…

…it all out, every dirty… no, there it's totally closed. Why? Now we have to make next step, which is that. For Lacan, perversion is a transgression, of course, of explicit rules. But what I repeatedly called an inherent transgression is the other obscene…

…that's the... Okay, I will not go into other Lacanian details. You must know them, which can be beautifully deployed. How for Lacan, that's why subject as such is hysterical. Because as Lacan put it, subject is not an object. This simply means you are…

…details. You must know them, which can be beautifully deployed. How for Lacan, that's why subject as such is hysterical. Because as Lacan put it, subject is not an object. This simply means you are a subject insofar as you cannot properly locate yourself…

…this example of charity today. That's for me practice as it were. You know, like, my God, what do you bullshit here about Lacan, Hegel, all these distinctions when children are starving in Somalia and so on and so on. Why is this ideology at its purest?…

…my definition of, you know, along these lines. The second thing is that... Then we go specifically to Christianity because, you know, Lacan says, as I also repeated, that the true formal of atheism is not God is dead, but God is unconscious. He means…

…you, but because... Did you get the point that I made? Sorry, I'm sorry. Just to finish, I mean, the interesting point about Lacan on sublimation in relation to Sade, as you said, is not his erotics, not his social theory, it's the fact that he pushes…

…Because here I found a certain, maybe I'm wrong, not so much tension as an indecidability, non-clarity, however you call it in Lacan, because I think that too many readings of Lacan, mine included... fell, did fall into this trap of bad desire versus good…

…not so much tension as an indecidability, non-clarity, however you call it in Lacan, because I think that too many readings of Lacan, mine included... fell, did fall into this trap of bad desire versus good drive, you know. But I think that ultimately…

…Lacan, mine included... fell, did fall into this trap of bad desire versus good drive, you know. But I think that ultimately Lacan doesn't privilege drive against desire. As if you know, desire is still attached to the law, caught in some dialectic master,…

…so on. I don't think you can reduce one to the other. clear in the ethics seminar seven that sublimation in SAAD and for Lacan radical forms of sublimation linked to the death drive is a move from say pathology to the And also it's the bearing, just…

…read my old point. You remember on the very last page, even the last or one before the last paragraph of Semiral 11, where Lacan says, the desire of analyst is not a pure desire. It's an upon desire pure. Now, as always with Lacan, you should ask the…

…of Semiral 11, where Lacan says, the desire of analyst is not a pure desire. It's an upon desire pure. Now, as always with Lacan, you should ask the totally stupid question. Who is that idiot who ever claimed the desire of the analyst is a pure desire?…

…the totally stupid question. Who is that idiot who ever claimed the desire of the analyst is a pure desire? The answer is Lacan himself. four years earlier in Antigone. Which is why, maybe I'm wrong, but now Antigone is almost my taboo, you know, the…

…you know, the one which should be, no, sorry, not Antigone, the ethics seminar. Because precisely, I think that what Lacan does in next seminar, Transference, when he analyzes Claudel, Coufontaine, Signe there, it's precisely Signe what eludes Antigone, what…

…in Antigone. I think that would have been much closer. It's precisely just a way of, you know, No, the no of signia. Lacan moved forward, which is why, yes, I agree with you about sublimation and so on, and we would have... Sorry? The absolute, this…

…mean this is, can you imagine this monster eyes everywhere? So Hegel already had this incredible insight which we can read through Lacan when he says in seminar 11 of how the work of art acquires its beauty through deposing, gentrifying the gaze. Which is…

…get some total terror, total unpleasure. And it's incredible what Kant does here. He directly, I couldn't believe it, so maybe Lacan was not totally idiot, he directly uses the couple lust, pleasure, and enjoyment, genus. He said that when things are…

…we call this castration. Because you are decentered. Here we can see where some old-fashioned feminists get it wrong. When Lacan talks about so-called phallic signifier, he doesn't mean any symbol of male virility. For Lacan, phallic signifier is the…

…feminists get it wrong. When Lacan talks about so-called phallic signifier, he doesn't mean any symbol of male virility. For Lacan, phallic signifier is the signifier of castration. To assume phallus means to assume your castration. In what sense? The phallic…

…phallic signifier is the signifier of castration. To assume phallus means to assume your castration. In what sense? The phallic element for Lacan is... the insignia of power. A judge puts on a robe, a king has a crown, whatever, and this is the phallic…

…and this is the phallic element. And you see the joke that the phallic element is detached from you. That's why Lacan talks about castration. The authority never comes from you, yourself. It's always external. There is always a gap between your miserable…

…so you cannot identify with it? Like, my God, am I really all that? And in psychoanalytic theory, developed by Jacques Lacan, one of my great teachers, this gap, the distance that separates my stupid empirical person from reality, My symbolic identity is…

…this woman who still wants at least a human partner to a man who wants just a partial object. And Jacques Lacan, in his psychoanalytic theory, was deeply impressed by this movement of our technology towards this, let's call it whatever, post-sexual…

…the other form of anti-humanism is the French theoretical anti-humanism, which accompanied the structuralist revolution of the 1960s, Althusser, Foucault, Lacan, and so on. There we know, we'll not go into it, how anti-humanism worked. Then we have the deep…

…to turn it around. We, collective humanity, should do it. I think that the true step should be a more something articulated by Lacan and only in Hegel that you should just realize that not only are we powerless but that the big other capital and so…

…Cartier-Laton and so on. I claim... it would have probably triggered a much more serious revolution or whatever. You know, Lacan says this when he refers to a wonderful ambiguity, when he says that omnipotence, toute puissance, necessarily reverts into all…

…say I'm a dialectical materialist, it means fuck off, nobody will bother me, you know. Okay, so let's go on. You know, when Lacan talks about the big other, what he means is not just the ideal symbolic system, but a weird materiality. If by materiality…

…as such and it's not a material materiality in the sense of language exists in works and so on and so on it's all that Lacan is aiming at with his notion of with his notion of de-centered subject and so on and so on. It's a strange ideal materiality,…

…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…

…were, with beautiful national myths laid the foundations for it. What interests me is, to put it in Lacanian terms of 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…

…it with regard to that aim, to make it a self-strike. This is the fundamental lesson of metaphysics. So I think Jacques Lacan is right when he claims that the horror of sexuality for Christianity and others is not, they are not fighting their vulgar…

…pollution. End of quotes. Now from a psychoanalytic standpoint, it is clear that this fear is a fear of what Jacques Lacan called lamella. What he means by this is some obscene undeadness, a substance which just beyond life and death blindly reproduces…

…there is always this fear in a... creating all the gadgets that mobilizes and so on and so on. And here, Jacques Lacan proposed a neologism, Latouse, L-A-T-H-O-U-S-E, Latouse. It's a weird word, there are many associations. This is for him the name for...…

…who needs real sex, and so on. So, this excess, now this is the introductory part, Lacan's name for this excess is what Jacques Lacan calls object small a, l'object A. Now, let me make a little bit of a detour what Lacan means by this. I will be…

…for this excess is what Jacques Lacan calls object small a, l'object A. Now, let me make a little bit of a detour what Lacan means by this. I will be very precise and give you a simple erotic example. It's confidential, but it comes from the other…

…so it's not too bad. Basically, the definition of object A would be the imperfection that works. This would be, I think, what Lacan calls object teta, object small a, at its purest. in a person something that is a sign of imperfection, but if you take…

…of doubt, of hysterical doubt. You are calling me Democrat woman, husband. Why that? Why am I that? And this is why for Lacan, He is very precise here. Subjectivity as such is hysterical. And for reasons into which I cannot go now, I develop this widely…

…hysterical. And for reasons into which I cannot go now, I develop this widely in my books, I think that here Lacan is totally right against a certain Deleuzian, pseudo-Deleuzian, I have great appreciation for Deleuzian theory, which I simplify to the…

…Like a hysteric subject just provokes the master with a demand for a stronger master while a pervert goes to the end. No, Lacan and already Freud made it very clear that a pervert is a perfect subject. That every power, the more authoritarian it is, the…

…we don't have time to go into it now. Just to give you a quick hint, recapitulating all stuff, what is perversion for Lacan? You know, it's not, ooh, I'm eating shit of other persons or whatever tells you about the imagination. Lacan is here very…

…perversion for Lacan? You know, it's not, ooh, I'm eating shit of other persons or whatever tells you about the imagination. Lacan is here very refined. Perversion is, for him, a formal subjective position. The beautiful paradox of Lacan is that, sorry for…

…tells you about the imagination. Lacan is here very refined. Perversion is, for him, a formal subjective position. The beautiful paradox of Lacan is that, sorry for my tasteless nature, I cannot escape it. You can eat your lover's shit, but you, I don't,…

…all the missionary positions you want, no? But you are a pervert, a pervert. Perversion is a subjective position, which means, as Lacan puts it very precisely, you assume the position of an instrument of the other's jouissance, in the sense that, to put…

…is questioning. The hysterical position is... And this is why... And you know why I like here Freud and Lacan? Because here they are effectively much more feminists. You know, behind this apparently critical celebration of perversion against hysteria...…

…is the one of questioning. But then here things get really interesting. Questioning what? Questioning what I am. Here, you know, when Lacan, this is so important that I repeat it all the time. When Lacan says, ooh, the object of desire is originally…

…Questioning what? Questioning what I am. Here, you know, when Lacan, this is so important that I repeat it all the time. When Lacan says, ooh, the object of desire is originally missing, this is not the stupid idea of how, you know, we never know what…

…myself. That is to say, what am I for the gaze of the other? That's the original question of desire. Here, although I think Lacan did a much better job, but as a strategic compromise with the enemy, here you can maybe read, you are allowed from my…

…And, of course, now, the next crucial step is, of course, that the parents also don't know it. And this is for... Lacan, and Laplanche develops this nicely, the original experience of the unconscious is when the child knows that, as Hegel put it nicely,…

…games with me and I just cannot penetrate them. No, the crucial discovery And this is maybe the primordial form of what Lacan calls symbolic castration, is that the other also doesn't know. When you feel this, that you know the other, that you experience…

…material, he precisely escapes from something, from what is really difficult to think, that we have in the big other, in what Lacan calls the symbolic machine, we have an order which is not material in the usual sense, but which nonetheless functions as…

…you never have enough of it and so on and so on. So this is, I think, a wonderful example of what Lacan calls, he plays in his anxiety seminar of this... ambiguity of toute puissance, omnipotence, and toute impuissance, all in potency. That omnipotence,…

…What he tries to circumscribe, discern as the materiality of ideology, that it's precisely not the material materiality. It's what Lacan calls materialism. The materiality of signifier, of a letter, you can cut it into small pieces, it remains the letter…

…of a letter, you can cut it into small pieces, it remains the letter it is, and so on. So his idea being of Lacan, that of course Lacan doesn't mean here material materiality in the sense you touch it, but materiality in the sense of a blind…