…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 machine-like order, And this…

…Even the spiritual domain of grace functions like mechanical materialism, if you want, like this. And that's the point of Lacan, when Lacan speaks about the autonomy of the signifier. It doesn't mean that these words printed here materially are autonomous.…

…spiritual domain of grace functions like mechanical materialism, if you want, like this. And that's the point of Lacan, when Lacan speaks about the autonomy of the signifier. It doesn't mean that these words printed here materially are autonomous. It means…

…jouissance, drive, whatever you call the other side. What I'm more and more convinced, that's all I can tell you now, is that Lacan oscillates often between sometimes especially in the 50s he gives a clear primacy to desire and then drive is some kind of…

…this, which is, I think, absolutely crucial. And all of my friends, we are now working on this. Did you notice how Lacan, most of his time, at least in the 50s, still his... last decade, accepts this standard philosophical topic of the difference between…

…the human is, there don't exist any catastrophe or whatever, a certain gap opens, but I think that the more you read the late Lacan, the more it's clear that he tries to be much more Hegelian or even Schellingian and more and more his idea is that…

…terrible negativity. There must have been something wrong already before in nature itself. For example, Be careful about something. When Lacan, in Seminar 11, introduces the notion of lamella, that eternalized blah, blah, blah, he says that lamella is produced…

…sexualized also in the animal sense, not just humanity. So he is often trying, and this is for me the most productive Lacan, to say not we have full nature and then something horrible happens, negativity with humanity, but that in humanity some gap, some…

…you know? And this is what I'm now working on. You know, it's this wonderful idea which you do find somewhere in Lacan, and I think it can be given a wholly non-theological materialist reading, this crazy idea from Schelling, Benjamin has it, that human…

…concept of drive anything that would involve in itself guilt. That would have been maybe my answer to it. Because if anything, as Lacan makes it clear, if there is something which is characteristic of drive, it is that it is beyond law, guilt, and all…

…a way to be vulgar in a polite way. Now there's a cue now. Yes? I find really interesting how you use both Lacan and Marx to analyze social reality, especially when it has been proven sometimes that it is a problematic relationship since they have…

…not a standard Marxist. I clearly, and I've written about it, I clearly see a limitation in Marx. I think I agree with Lacan that there is, in some sense, a basic alienation which should be admitted, but it's not the Marxian alienation. You know, Marx…

…Marx is limited. But what is so interesting, and a guy from our Lacanian gang in Slovenia, Samo Tomšić, did a book, Marx and Lacan Tao, where he went, it will be translated into English, we will try to push it, 300 pages, he goes in detail through all…

…try to push it, 300 pages, he goes in detail through all Lacan's statements of Marx and shows how. You know, there is one Lacan of the 50s, the first big Lacan, symbolic order, all that bullshit, and then you have the Lacan of the 60s, 70s, let's call…

…in detail through all Lacan's statements of Marx and shows how. You know, there is one Lacan of the 50s, the first big Lacan, symbolic order, all that bullshit, and then you have the Lacan of the 60s, 70s, let's call it the Lacan of discourses,…

…You know, there is one Lacan of the 50s, the first big Lacan, symbolic order, all that bullshit, and then you have the Lacan of the 60s, 70s, let's call it the Lacan of discourses, jouissons, and so on, how Marx systematically returns in this Lacan. For…

…first big Lacan, symbolic order, all that bullshit, and then you have the Lacan of the 60s, 70s, let's call it the Lacan of discourses, jouissons, and so on, how Marx systematically returns in this Lacan. For example, he even opposes how Lacan's formula…

…Lacan of the 60s, 70s, let's call it the Lacan of discourses, jouissons, and so on, how Marx systematically returns in this Lacan. For example, he even opposes how Lacan's formula for the 50s is unconscious is structured like a language. in the 70s Lacan…

…Lacan. For example, he even opposes how Lacan's formula for the 50s is unconscious is structured like a language. in the 70s Lacan says the unconscious is political politics and so on and all the reference to this new role of objectita of objects moley…

…on and so on so it's a much more much more subtle questioning of course this Marx is no longer the old Marx but nonetheless Lacan makes it clear when he says, for example, and in a very precise way he means it, that Marx invented the symptom, and so…

…here. But again, what can be proven, I claim, nonetheless, it's not only, it's again, on the one hand, how often, systematically, Lacan refers to Marx, and on the opposite hand, this is what always fascinates me, if you read through Lacan, Marx, what…

…often, systematically, Lacan refers to Marx, and on the opposite hand, this is what always fascinates me, if you read through Lacan, Marx, what wonderful places paradoxes you discover for example when in a passage that i often quote marx describes that rule…

…No, Marx says we pretend to be rational, but we don't see illusions which structure our reality itself. Here you have what Lacan is saying. Reality is structured like a fantasy and so on and so on. Listen, can we slowly stop and fuck democracy?…

…their place, you know. This is, I think, a nice... I don't have time to develop it fully now, but this is in what sense Lacan, in his critique of Hegel, is right to claim that in the dialectic of master and servant, the pleasure is on the side of…

…do back in your home, it's your business, just not publicly in my presence. And again, I think that... And this is how Lacan, I don't have it here, in a wonderful passage, claims that it's absolutely crucial for the traditional master's gaze to leave a…

…good question, namely... I would not put a sign of equation between superego and death drive. I here follow Deleuze and even Lacan. Here, I think, Lacan, I don't think he reduces death drive to superego. I think that there is a certain repetitive dynamics…

…I would not put a sign of equation between superego and death drive. I here follow Deleuze and even Lacan. Here, I think, Lacan, I don't think he reduces death drive to superego. I think that there is a certain repetitive dynamics of death drive which…

…uh this again brings me back to that dostoevsky eternal dostoevsky point you know that the truth of our society is if As Lacan turned it around, if there is no God, then everything is prohibited. In the sense that, can you imagine anything more in…

…Could you tell the difference between this new kind of master and if this master is equivalent to an analyst's discourse in Lacan? And which is the difference between this new master and the superego injunction? This one, next talk, I will go into it.…

…this universality. First, I don't think there is a homogeneous French school. I see great opposition. I mean, for example, Lacan, together with some others, is always pro-universal against Foucauldian nominalism and so on. But what interests me is really what…

…of a master. And I'm sorry I don't have time to do it today because I claim that what is a master signifier for Lacan? Of course, it's always a reflexive signi... Like, you fill in a gap. You just give a name to that which originally doesn't have…

…and so on, all that stuff. But, and then I gave many examples, I will not repeat them, but my point is that for Lacan always emphasized that the master signifier can be, with a subtle shift, it can be transformed into what Lacan calls signifier of the…

…is that for Lacan always emphasized that the master signifier can be, with a subtle shift, it can be transformed into what Lacan calls signifier of the bad, inconsistent other. That is to say, signifier of the inconsistency of the other. which is, again,…

…already capitalism is in a way social order with no master in the traditional sense but you know the whole point of Lacan and here he is very modern is how the type of discourse which replaces, supplements the master's discourse, university discourse, has…

…which I try to isolate in some pages towards the end of my big fat book, Less Than Nothing, is you know that what Lacan got it is that it's not enough to have, for example, to have a non-relationship. For example, when Lacan says, il n'y a pas…

…you know that what Lacan got it is that it's not enough to have, for example, to have a non-relationship. For example, when Lacan says, il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel, there is no relationship. What Lacan got it, and it's a very speculative Hegelian…

…example, to have a non-relationship. For example, when Lacan says, il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel, there is no relationship. What Lacan got it, and it's a very speculative Hegelian point, it's that It's not enough to say there is no relationship. If we…

…be reconciled. There is eternal struggle between masculine, feminine. There is nothing subversive in it. This is bullshit. But what Lacan says is something very precise. He moves imperceptibly from... There is no relationship. There is a no relationship. That…

…in the sense that in anti-Semitic vision it is the cause of the class struggle and so on and so on. And so, again, what Lacan calls object A is always to be read in this way. For example, this is why, and now we come to the interesting, crucial…

…as the master signifier. What I don't, but the problem, there is another very deep aspect to it here, philosophical. I think that Lacan is trying to break out of this, let's call it productive paradigm. By this, I mean, for example, what Deleuze does in…

…then the alienated hierarchic representation, and then the problem becomes how to reassert productivity and so on and so on. I think Lacan wants to break out of this. His idea is that in a way, What representation, some excess of representation is the…

…Plato, if you know how, for example, in some of his dialogues, how he describes Socrates being seized by an idea. Already Lacan noted it, how it's really a description of someone in a... hysterical seizure, you know, all of a sudden immobilized, like a…

…universe. And again, the paranoiac system is already an attempt, of course, a crazy attempt, but an attempt to cure yourself. Lacan sometimes I'm not sure one should do this radical step but nonetheless Lacan sometimes along these lines proposed that there…

…crazy attempt, but an attempt to cure yourself. Lacan sometimes I'm not sure one should do this radical step but nonetheless Lacan sometimes along these lines proposed that there is a moment of madness in all rationality in the sense that every rationality…

…is the power of... This is the power of... misperception. Here you can get the first glimpse of what Hegel means or of what Lacan is aiming at when he says the truth can arise out of a misrecognition. Let's go on. In Lubitsch himself you have among…

…fuck, forget about all this. No. The point of Freud is, fuck is never fuck. You need fantasy to the end. That's what Lacan means by there is no sexual relationship. Of course, rashly, you know, you make children like this, but to maintain the arousal…

…that nonetheless, copulation, to be vulgar, fuck, is a central point, but precisely as such, It escapes normativity. This is what Lacan means by there is no sexual relationship, that this cognitive question, as it were, is never answered. That, how to put…

…do I mean by this? And now comes the... the nice point that I want to make. I hope this will convince you. Already Lacan says something which is so typical that it was absolutely censored. You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I did my best asking…

…one told me of even one example where someone noticed this absolutely crucial statement in Lacan's seminar 20, Feminine Sexuality, encore, where Lacan says something again. I hate people when they do this because I would like to be the one to do this. You…

…the one to do this. You know, this simple observation that once you make it, it's so obvious. Namely, Lacan turns around completely The standard idea that Catholic, Christian, especially Catholic church, its sexual teaching privileges genital sexuality,…

…genitals, straight, heterosexuality, and so on and so on. It's absolutely not true. The opposite is true. Here is the quote from Lacan, the crucial one, from, yes, Encore. Christ, even when resurrected from the dead, is valued for his body, and his body…

…to the testimony of someone who has just come back from an orgy of churches in Italy and so on and so on. So what Lacan again is saying here is that if you look at the church imaginary and art, it is full of these oral, anal drives. You can…

…have saints eating shit, fondling each other, burning, whatever. Never fucking. Copulation is prohibited. in church imaginary. So again, Lacan is very clear here. One should reject the endlessly repeated critical thesis that the Catholic sexual morality imposes…

…as the glue of society, as the very staff of communion, in contrast to the heterosexual couple. That's the basic thesis of Lacan, that if you look at these institutions which are for Freud in his... crowd group psychology and analysis of the ego the…

…and so on and so on. The last trap here, and here one has to be up to a point critical even of Lacan himself, is where? If you read Lacan really carefully, you must have noticed a certain ambiguity. On the one hand, Lacan massively endorses…

…trap here, and here one has to be up to a point critical even of Lacan himself, is where? If you read Lacan really carefully, you must have noticed a certain ambiguity. On the one hand, Lacan massively endorses this standard philosophical topic of the…

…is where? If you read Lacan really carefully, you must have noticed a certain ambiguity. On the one hand, Lacan massively endorses this standard philosophical topic of the opposition between animals and humans. There is sexual relationship for animals.…

…simply doesn't know that it doesn't know. It's not unconscious of it. But a catastrophe imbalance is already in nature. Okay, Lacan gives also some hints in this direction. For example, if you read carefully in Seminary 11, when he introduces this notion…

…he locates the gap, the rupture, signaled by the term lamela, this undead object, already at the level of animal sexuality. Lacan is much more radical here. Lacan, I think, oscillates here between, again, this simple celebration of humanity at a loss. You…

…signaled by the term lamela, this undead object, already at the level of animal sexuality. Lacan is much more radical here. Lacan, I think, oscillates here between, again, this simple celebration of humanity at a loss. You know, the standard topic, men…

…theoreticians of today, a great work through many areas of knowledge. Under the strong influence of Karl Marx, Hegel and Lacan, he implemented an innovative criticism of modernity and postmodernity. He is a professor at the University of Ljubljana. He…

…hours of work. They don't want trade unions or whatever and so on. So, you see, this is a little bit of what Jacques Lacan meant by his maybe strange idea that the truth has the structure of a fiction sometimes. What you cannot say in real serious…

…Hegelian. and this is the big lesson of psychoanalysis, but every language is like this. Every language, if there is a lesson of Lacan, is that there is a fundamental gap between human subject and language. As we should put it, it's not enough to say…

…patriarchal authority can, up to a point, play a positive role. But let me now make a step further. I nonetheless think, and Lacan is here much better than you and Rudinesco, that... This is an irreversible process. What is going on today is, I think,…

…of a master, as well as this polymorphous multitude structure, it doesn't... There is a challenge here. And there are some hints in Lacan or somewhere that you can have a social link which is not founded on the figure of the master. Next point, now I…

…and nobody is really hurt and so on. So let's face it, Fanon dealt extensively and intensively with Hegel, psychoanalysis, Charter, even Lacan. So when my third reaction or paraphrase would have been, when I read lines like Mignolo's, I reach not for the…

…only alternative is either some postmodern capitalist individualism or traditional hierarchy. I mean, I thought I even said something... That's what Lacan told to the students in 68. That's why he was wrong. That's why he was wrong. I don't have any…

…what Lacan told to the students in 68. That's why he was wrong. That's why he was wrong. I don't have any problems here. Lacan also would get his re-education camp if he were to be alive when I take power. Sorry, please. I would just like to return…

…the superego stuff slightly surprised me, because in his book, Infinitely Demanding, he claims that, one of the claims is that Lacan sees only this terrorizing, demanding aspect of superego, but we should see the comical aspect of superego, which, you know,…

…aspect of superego, which, you know, makes it more comical, easier, and so on. Well, he didn't do his homework there. First, Lacan, I remember, has long pages on how already Kant knew that there is always something comical in the demand of the superego,…

…remember, has long pages on how already Kant knew that there is always something comical in the demand of the superego, but Lacan knew something more, that this comical aspect of superego doesn't make it softer, but makes it even much more brutal. sadistic…

…on. What we conceal from ourselves is not our doubts and disbeliefs, but precisely we conceal from ourselves This is what Jacques Lacan, my big reverence in psychoanalysis, says the true formula of atheism is not God is dead, but God is unconscious. Our…

…of times, that you should apply here this wonderful provocative statement, a little bit male chauvinist, but nonetheless it's correct, by Lacan when he says, if a guy is pathologically jealous, Lacan says a very nice precise thing here. Even if this is…

…statement, a little bit male chauvinist, but nonetheless it's correct, by Lacan when he says, if a guy is pathologically jealous, Lacan says a very nice precise thing here. Even if this is literally true and the wife really cheats around, his jealousy…

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

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

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

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

…that But I think that precisely here I'm on his side that with drive, With drive, this is the big Lacanian theological problem. Lacan says that object is object cause of desire, but also the object of drive. So how do they differ? And I think that…

…it's not there. In terms of influences, I noted down here in the last page of the book that your Marx was my Illich, your Lacan was Girard, your Vertigo was and still is my Vertigo. uh your argentina for me is brazil my hegel your hegel is for me…

…I think, convincing explanation of this reversal. That is to say, of how less can produce more. It is what Jacques Lacan called the surplus, the mechanism of surplus enjoyment. Take a typical obsessional masochist. You have a certain desire or indescent…

…45-minute discussion with Slavoj, followed by questions from you guys. That's it. Please give them both a very warm welcome. Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst. He makes Freud sound like a simple valley girl. Lacan's theory of how the self works is…

…the most complicated book I have ever tried to read. Strange, because the goal of the book is, on the contrary, to make Lacan back into someone whom even your grandma could understand. So the trust of the book is not so much Christianity. The basic idea…

…psychoanalytic take on Christianity. It's all here on the book, The Puppet and the Dwarf. And as a Marxist, if somebody tells that Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy. Thank you so much for coming in. I never thought I'd have this…

…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. who thinks he is a king. That…

…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 the object cause of desire, which is an obstacle, but at the same…

…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…

…for you, others feel for you, and God would have been, God is this very other dimension. There has to be what Jacques Lacan calls, Jacques Lacan precisely calls this dimension the big other, the one for whom we have to maintain appearances and so on and…

…feel for you, and God would have been, God is this very other dimension. There has to be what Jacques Lacan calls, Jacques Lacan precisely calls this dimension the big other, the one for whom we have to maintain appearances and so on and so on. So,…

…he is telling himself, herself. This is the counter-revolution attacks, or what? Enemy never... You see? Okay. This is what in Lacan we call intervention of the real and so on. Okay, let's go on. So, usually when we say neighbor, multiculturalist ideology…

…this feature, I see the vulgarity, the whatever, and then let this feature color all of it. And to put it in, back to Lacan, Lacanian terms, or even theological terms, in this way I pass from... neighbor in the simple sense of semblant, of one who is…

…my God, is this really the person that I knew. At that point you encounter the neighbor. So when Freud and Lacan insist on the problematic nature of the Judeo-Christian injunction to love your neighbor, they refer precisely to the dark impenetrable abyss…

…know anything. Can I really know who he is? How can I be sure that his words are not a mere pretense? This is why Lacan applies to the neighbor the term think. The thing, the stink, used by Freud to designate the ultimate object of our desires in its…

…thwarted, implicit homosexuality. The difficult thing is to change things here. That is to say, to change... things at the level of what Lacan called the big other. And now I'm coming, if you allow me, you are my super ego, a little bit more. The…

…from Dostoevsky, his brother Karamazov, no, if there is no God, everything is permitted, my theoretical point of reference, Jacques Lacan, was quite right in turning this around, his point is no, if God doesn't exist, then everything is prohibited, which,…

…expect you are strong enough to do something like this and so on and so on. And this is crucial. This is how Lacan explains the role of the father. precisely of the traditional patriarchal father. He says, I quote, I think it's from somewhere in…

…you are, as it were, not... on father's radar or whatever and you can there transgress things and so on but for Lacan this precisely is the function of paternal authority so precisely it's never a total authority it precisely doesn't see everything and…

…islands of transgression where you can enjoy and so on and so on In this sense, if some of you are philosophers, Lacan had a good critical point about Critical point about Hegel, you know, the famous Hegelian dialectics of master and servant, where…

…project X of this collective transgressive orgiastic violence whatever The deepest insight already in Jewish tradition is that this is what Lacan would have put it, the living God, the God of the real. Which is extremely, this experience of sacred as this…

…I have to run away, and so on and so on. Don't fall into this. Reacting to the Paris protests of 1968, Jacques Lacan wrote, I quote him, What you aspire to as revolutionaries is a new master. You will get one." This diagnostic prognostic should be…

…like every revolution asks for a new master. But I claim there is a grain of truth in it if we apply this Lacan statement to some of the protests. If you just protest and demand, you effectively expose yourself to the danger that you are creating…

…not sociopathic enough. They still need society and in their own way they serve society. In other words, what Jacques Lacan calls the big other remains operative. Namely, the goals that motivate these sociopaths are still socially acceptable goals. Material…

…the proletariat to possess itself of state power. So what does this mean? Something very precise and paradoxical. It means what Jacques Lacan called, there is no meta-language. That is to say, of course the moment is immature, you got it, but if you wait…

…Literature is a luxury, fiction is a necessity. That is to say, as another well-known British Hegelian called Jeremiah Bentham, as Lacan knew it, knew very well. It's easy to distinguish reality and fictions. The problem is that when you erase fictions, you…

…radical. I want to point this that the structure that I describe of reality supplementing, being supplemented by fantasy, involves what Lacan calls object small a, this pure void or even, that's the title of my book incidentally, this less than nothing.…

…just a blind repetition. Second thing. Hegel has a problem with thinking unconscious. Again, he can think, but it is, as Lacan makes it clear in one of his late seminars, it is a formal transcendental unconscious. Hegelian unconscious is the unconscious of…

…into ontic reality. Metaphysics is the fault. What do I mean by this? Now, really to conclude, did you ask yourself, here Lacan is right in Seminary 11, why is especially the Catholic Church so opposed to sexuality? I mean, how stupid is their…

…is their argumentation? And when I say stupid, I'm not bluffing. I'm not saying all theologists are stupid. They're the top. Lacan is right to say that. The only real materialists maybe today are theologists. But nonetheless, what strikes me as stupid is…

…traumatic encounter, which is literally metaphysical. It interrupts your immersion into normal reality and so on and so forth. Here Lacan has some wonderful precise passages in Seminary 11. He refers to apparition, I think, appearance. I think it should refer…

…passages in Seminary 11. He refers to apparition, I think, appearance. I think it should refer also to reality. Where, again, Lacan says that about pleasure... Plato, he says that Plato opposes mimesis appearance so much, not because it's opposed to true…

…and so on and so on. Here, again, the repetition of what Hegel did is necessary. And this is why I stick to Jacques Lacan. He is, for me, ultimately an instrument to repeat Hegel. He would have denied it, of course, I'm well aware of it, no? And…

…behalf of my nation, everything is permitted, okay, let's rape, let's kill, whatever you want. Which is why I think Jacques Lacan, my psychoanalytic, Master figure was right when he turned around Dostoevsky's famous, if there is no God, then everything is…

…Christianity is... much more radical in an atheist sense. Why? Because, let me give you a very brief formula. Here I refer to Jacques Lacan, who said, the true formula of atheism is not God is dead, but God is unconscious. That is to say, it's easy for…

…all these games of let's return to some more authentic form of what we have is not enough. So let me quote Jacques Lacan. Reacting to the Paris protests of 1968, Lacan said, it's a famous phrase, what you aspire to as revolutionaries is a new master.…

…more authentic form of what we have is not enough. So let me quote Jacques Lacan. Reacting to the Paris protests of 1968, Lacan said, it's a famous phrase, what you aspire to as revolutionaries is a new master. You will get one. It's a famous quote.…

…as a universal statement about every revolutionary upheaval, I don't agree with it. There is an element of liberal cynicism here in Lacan, you know, like, ha-ha, you want freedom, ha, you will get the new master and so on. But it contains a grain…

…the absent addressee of, for example, the Spanish Indignados. It's a call for a new master. And effectively, we will get it. Lacan was right. We got the first glimpse of this new master already in Greece and Italy. As if ironically answering the lack…

…Jesus Christ in himself was just a stupid, confused loser. And it's absolutely clear that it was a typical situation of what Lacan means by, but Islam is authentic, I'm not Although there are some hints, redemption, blah, blah, blah, but as we all know,…

…VII, the guy who got more and more hysterical and at the end he is liquidated. It's breathtaking how... You know, when Lacan says that... signifier, he uses this mysterious expression which is a very precise one. Signifier can become a sign of love, not…

…he means something very precise. We don't have time to go into it because this is one of nice things for me with Lacan. The early, yes, immediately, just to finish. The early Lacan was, to put it bluntly, against love for desire. and love is basically…

…into it because this is one of nice things for me with Lacan. The early, yes, immediately, just to finish. The early Lacan was, to put it bluntly, against love for desire. and love is basically an imaginary narcissistic, how shall I put it,…

…sign of love. Okay, listen at the final monologue before he is killed. At the very end of Shakespeare's Richard II, it's like Lacan put into poetry, precisely this expression, music as a sign of love. I was just curious, I thought I was taking the part…

…then the whole point is this double game how he will prove it. And this is the clearest case, I claim, of what Lacan meant by subject supposed to know. You know, this is it. It's totally non-explained how, but Columbo knows. Then he goes out,…

…can see in five seconds I'm not, but in order for me to be a normal person, I have to relate in a sense to what Lacan would have called big other as part of my own identity. A simple example. If I do something that is wrong, it's not enough. You're…

…people who made it to the end. you know, so that it gives you hope. It's more this kind of a subject, to paraphrase Lacan, subject presupposed to meditate. People need it as a fixed point of reference. Okay, so let's go on. What's then, how do we then…

…point. It's not okay, no classification is perfect, after my book, the term suture, you know, suture. Now we are coming to Lacan. This empty element, in the sense that it doesn't mean anything, it's just a negation positivized. to tell, I hope it's not…

…to Spartak or what? Like... structure, doesn't it also elucidate something about the idea of organs without body, insofar as, when Lacan defines the big other, I think in one of his later seminars, he says precisely something that doesn't exist but has…

…know, you asked a very good question. Because, you know, the problem here, let me go quickly through, is the following one. And Lacan was struggling for a long time with it. What do we mean by the big other doesn't exist? From the very beginning, Lacan,…

…one. And Lacan was struggling for a long time with it. What do we mean by the big other doesn't exist? From the very beginning, Lacan, in a way, but if you kill all real people that's me. Be very careful. As far as I know, mostly, at least the late…

…in a way, but if you kill all real people that's me. Be very careful. As far as I know, mostly, at least the late Lacan, he doesn't say just the big other doesn't exist. He says, il n'yapa, there is no big other. And as every, as we know, the…

…even as non-existing, even as the regard to atheism, you know? Maybe I already improvised about this, I'm not sure. Early Lacan made the standard formula, the formula of stick, did stick to standard formula of atheism, God doesn't exist, no? But then,…

…we love each other. So, but okay, they, my friends, no, they claim that precisely this is not enough, that holy, and even Lacan and then seven, maybe even more, she says explicitly that the Holy Spirit is the Christian name for the Begather. For this,…

…try to prove, what I'm struggling with in my book, more radical death. What do I mean by this? We should, let's return to Lacan. Lacan does later, Lacan doesn't only, okay, for Lacan the form of atheism is that God is dead, this is the Lacan who still…

…to prove, what I'm struggling with in my book, more radical death. What do I mean by this? We should, let's return to Lacan. Lacan does later, Lacan doesn't only, okay, for Lacan the form of atheism is that God is dead, this is the Lacan who still…

…I'm struggling with in my book, more radical death. What do I mean by this? We should, let's return to Lacan. Lacan does later, Lacan doesn't only, okay, for Lacan the form of atheism is that God is dead, this is the Lacan who still believes in the…

…book, more radical death. What do I mean by this? We should, let's return to Lacan. Lacan does later, Lacan doesn't only, okay, for Lacan the form of atheism is that God is dead, this is the Lacan who still believes in the Big Other as it were. But…

…let's return to Lacan. Lacan does later, Lacan doesn't only, okay, for Lacan the form of atheism is that God is dead, this is the Lacan who still believes in the Big Other as it were. But then the moment Lacan bar and so on. He changed his formula of…

…of atheism is that God is dead, this is the Lacan who still believes in the Big Other as it were. But then the moment Lacan bar and so on. He changed his formula of atheism. His formula of atheism is then not God doesn't exist, but as maybe some of…

…up again to the level of his own thinking. I'm very happy to welcome one of the founding professors of our program, Jacques Lacan, professor of EGS. Thank you very much. Just to begin with, are you paid by Gaddafi money or what? Because I noticed how…

…between equal free partners where the staff exchange its pleasure. I think that this is the reason why I'm still more for Lacan or Freud than for Michel Foucault. we are shifting from sexuality to pleasures and I claim that that part of this process…

…you are, as it were, on the edge, when things get too intense, in the sense, in what sense? In this sense. For Lacan, you probably know, he says, there is no reality without fantasy. That's very important for Lacan. they are, you always, I'm almost…

…In this sense. For Lacan, you probably know, he says, there is no reality without fantasy. That's very important for Lacan. they are, you always, I'm almost tempted to use here the philosophical term, transcendentally constitute reality. You perceive reality…

…I'll tell you why I want some of that recently but no they don't so again I think the lesson is a very beautiful one Lacan says somewhere in the simple sense that while you make love, you relate to the other line of mind maybe. You know how we…

…heterosexual and male homosexual are what we call straight sex, are homosexual. The only true heterosexuals are lesbians. And then, of course, Lacan leaves a window open that in real love and so on, you can even with other sexual practices achieve it. Why?…

…leaves a window open that in real love and so on, you can even with other sexual practices achieve it. Why? Because Lacan is here, again, very... There is another beautiful point here about Lacan where he, again, his formula is this one. He rehabilitates…

…even with other sexual practices achieve it. Why? Because Lacan is here, again, very... There is another beautiful point here about Lacan where he, again, his formula is this one. He rehabilitates love here. And I'm also an incurable romantic here. I'm for…

…about Lacan where he, again, his formula is this one. He rehabilitates love here. And I'm also an incurable romantic here. I'm for Lacan. How, if you do sex, how do you go beyond this structure of masturbation with a real partner? With love, I claim. of…

…thinking about the dead. But what are we thinking when we are doing that? And the whole premise of Freud, and this is what Lacan aims at when he says there is no sexual relationship, is that you never get pure sex. By pure sex I mean it's just…

…difficulties in breathing, you know. It's a wonderful reading. It's much more complex. It seems a male relation to fantasy. For Lacan, it's not a male and female, as you were saying before about the difference between hetero and homosexual sex, have a…

…different relation to fantasy? Yeah, I don't want to go into that now. I admit, confess my male chauvinist bias, no, because for Lacan, you know, but... Some people misread Lacan as if he is claiming men are fully in the symbolic order, woman is non-all,…

…want to go into that now. I admit, confess my male chauvinist bias, no, because for Lacan, you know, but... Some people misread Lacan as if he is claiming men are fully in the symbolic order, woman is non-all, half-out, and so on. And then some people…

…then some people try to read this in a Kristevian, Julia Kristeva, pro-feminist way, like men are fully identified. symbolic order, but Lacan is saying something different. You know where I think, maybe I'm wrong, but I think it works. You have at its…

…a scene on the beach, there was an orgy. And the genius of Bergman was not to go Everybody admits it's, this is what Lacan calls jouissance of the other. The other is language here. It's totally wrong to read Lacan as if saying women has access to…

…go Everybody admits it's, this is what Lacan calls jouissance of the other. The other is language here. It's totally wrong to read Lacan as if saying women has access to some mystical primordial jouissance. No, no, no, no. Only women can do this to end…

…will not awaken me, you know, I construct a dream when somebody is calling, and so on, you know. But now, the question, and Lacan focused on it, the question of course is, why then do you awaken? Why do you nonetheless finally awaken? If I ring a…

…and grab your head, don't you see the fucking phone or whatever? I doubt if you will still be able to integrate this. Lacan has a much more elegant reading. That you construct the dream to escape from reality. I mean, to remain sleeping. But What you…

…know, all the vulgarities, or people or breakdowns happened. Not the rape itself, but when, and this is the true tragedy of what Lacan means by the big other doesn't exist. When you get it that you are alone with your suffering, that there is no big…

…the army. I almost didn't remember it, you know. And here you can see the power of fantasy. And that's what Lacan means also with non-all. was there, even if it's crime in your relatively prosperous, safe lives, and they fictionalized horror, Afghanistan,…

…precisely this is what I also wanted to do to go into this logic of precipitation where even Alain but you refers to Lacan his seminar on psychoanalytic act late and too early. There is no proper time. If you wait for the proper moment, by definition,…

…of certainty, it's too early. What I wanted to do, but will not, is this. Do you know that logical paradox exploited by Lacan about three prisoners? You know, there are three white hats, heads and prisoners see only what the other two guys, what they…

…The problem is there are, prisoners know there are two dark and one, sorry, three white and two black hats. And it's clear what Lacan is aiming at. Like, if I see two black hats, I immediately know. Of course, since there are only two, if I see one…

…and this is what some of you asked me already, I want to explain it, is the distinction between object of desire and what Lacan calls object A, which is the object cause of desire. Now you will say, what's the bullshit? I like a girl or Judy Butler…

…put on. At my year 63, I'm saying, you know, it's time to go through the mess with real women. Okay, that's what Lacan meant. Lacan openly says that the problem today with the result of this last decline of paternal authority, blah, blah. You know,…

…At my year 63, I'm saying, you know, it's time to go through the mess with real women. Okay, that's what Lacan meant. Lacan openly says that the problem today with the result of this last decline of paternal authority, blah, blah. You know, Lacan says…

…Lacan openly says that the problem today with the result of this last decline of paternal authority, blah, blah. You know, Lacan says something very precise on the very last page of Seminary 11. He says that a successful moderately sexual relationship can…

…everyday The figure of the shark thus is, it kind of magically stands in for all these fears. In this sense it is for Lacan an empty signifier. Not that it means nothing, but it doesn't have a content of its own because it really stands for all that…

…logic of the more threatening that remainder was. You know, it's not, but what I want to say is that another thing that Lacan showed me the way immediately, sorry, when he said something wonderful, and this is the parallel I want to draw, when he said,…

…this twist. Jealous husband who is obsessed with the idea that his wife is screwing around with other men all the time. And Lacan says something, he says, Even if his suspicions are totally true, his wife is sleeping around with other men all the time,…

…Figaro, Largo al Factotum, or even a better one I claim from Cenerentola, The Evil Father. It is a wonderful... because Lacan provides a very precise definition of obsessional neurotic. For Lacan, obsessional neurotic is someone whose object of desire is the…

…from Cenerentola, The Evil Father. It is a wonderful... because Lacan provides a very precise definition of obsessional neurotic. For Lacan, obsessional neurotic is someone whose object of desire is the demand of the other. Now people say, what does this…

…this domain of neither life or death, but undead, however you call it, spectral, this begins with Kant, and this is why basically Lacan says very strangely, once Lacan was asked, okay, if we do a little bit of primitive history of ideas, where does it…

…death, but undead, however you call it, spectral, this begins with Kant, and this is why basically Lacan says very strangely, once Lacan was asked, okay, if we do a little bit of primitive history of ideas, where does it begin? Psychoanalysis. Lacan was…

…once Lacan was asked, okay, if we do a little bit of primitive history of ideas, where does it begin? Psychoanalysis. Lacan was totally opposed to the idea that in some this Schopenhauer, whatever, deep will, irrationalism, he said in Kant. In Kant's,…

…have it, or you can have something else. I guess, but And what I claim is that Lacan's name for this undeadness is lamella, which Lacan calls, says it is, drive itself as an object. And what I want to say is that, just to give you a hint, it's…

…just to connect. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it will come to your fucking Buddhism. You know, this is also another nice point, how to read Lacan. What is so great about Lacan is how he all the time uses, returns to the same phrase or example and reinterprets it…

…it will come to your fucking Buddhism. You know, this is also another nice point, how to read Lacan. What is so great about Lacan is how he all the time uses, returns to the same phrase or example and reinterprets it all the time. For example, from…

…phrase or example and reinterprets it all the time. For example, from already late 40s, I think, his really early writings, Lacan repeats, desire is the desire of the other. But it means absolutely Lacanian triad, imaginary, symbolic, real. You know, to…

…and so on and so on. Okay, so we will come immediately to that. Let me just begin with this. First, in the early Lacan, desire is the desire of the other means simply envy, competitivity and so on. I desire what you desire. would have called mimetic,…

…all the mimetic bullshit or whatever, no? But here already things get, and Girard knew it also in his own way, complicated with Lacan. Here I think, and it's so strange that Lacan didn't do it. Here we should read early Lacan, this idea of desire is…

…here already things get, and Girard knew it also in his own way, complicated with Lacan. Here I think, and it's so strange that Lacan didn't do it. Here we should read early Lacan, this idea of desire is the desire of the other, the structure of envy,…

…also in his own way, complicated with Lacan. Here I think, and it's so strange that Lacan didn't do it. Here we should read early Lacan, this idea of desire is the desire of the other, the structure of envy, example of this. I had a friend who is now…

…I love this, sincere. me I want to fuck you but you know it's all the big okay so that it is strange that what Lacan doesn't do is to grow up Rousseau was not an idiot here you know this wonderful source distinction very Lacanian one between what are…

…think oh it's all in my imagination spontaneously it's a complex symbolic structure which without you being aware of it The late Lacan, desire is the desire of the other, gets more radical, it's not imaginary, it's not real, it's more some kind of, how…

…of the other, you know, the neighbor, even God, for example, the Jewish God is Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you see how nicely Lacan does work here. How nicely it works in all three registers. Imaginary, symbolic, real, and so on. So, let me nonetheless... Okay,…

…know is precisely and so on, how they approached Iraq and so on. This would be, again, a nice definition of the unconscious. Lacan even uses the term an unknown knowledge, something you know, you know where you can find a you think your father is a…

…but at that moment something close to the position of the analyst happens, which is why I think that even when Lacan attacks philosophy, it's a much more refined position, you know. It's like, psychoanalysis is not simply external to philosophy. system of…

…two reasons. An obscenity to make a Holocaust story into a tragedy. Why? Because, and that's a very fine point went already by Lacan, for you to play the role of a tragic subject, a certain two conditions have to be met. A, a certain minimal dignity,…

…seduce her. And then it gets the most disgusting sexual act and so on. with this idea of how the big other in Lacan, how Lacan always reformulates, changes his position and so on. I think precisely, again, the big other is an exemplary case. But also…

…And then it gets the most disgusting sexual act and so on. with this idea of how the big other in Lacan, how Lacan always reformulates, changes his position and so on. I think precisely, again, the big other is an exemplary case. But also an exemplary…

…small others, like what we imagine to be our imaginary identity, and to my authentic subjectivity talking to the other. Lacan even uses a very traditional metaphysical expression, beyond the wall of language, to reach there, what is behind. That's Lacan's…

…you hinted before, then complications begin. Because for like one immediately disagreed with himself, you know, because then Lacan got something else, namely that this structure is necessarily inconsistent, antagonistic, inoperative, failed and so in itself to…

…else, namely that this structure is necessarily inconsistent, antagonistic, inoperative, failed and so in itself to guarantee its consistency. Lacan, what he calls the name of the father, the fundamental metaphor which we have to assume to enter symbolic…

…assume to enter symbolic order, is precisely the other of the other, the master signifier, which is why later it's absolutely crucial that Lacan denounces father, paternal authority as as the fake and so on and so on. So what I want to say is that, and…

…so on. So what I want to say is that, and yes, with this, when objectives theological terms as the neighbor. And as Lacan knows very well, the neighbor in Judeo-Christian tradition, and this is what for Lacan makes it great, the neighbor is not the…

…objectives theological terms as the neighbor. And as Lacan knows very well, the neighbor in Judeo-Christian tradition, and this is what for Lacan makes it great, the neighbor is not the fellow out there who is like me. No, the neighbor is precisely the…

…see children grabbing them and directly biting them and eating them. So yes, you can do things here, but I claim that this is what Lacan even means by the big other is inconsistent and so on, that You know, when I find even limits here, when I was in…

…it somewhere, the real, the authentic encounter is just a momentary event. Like, this is Antigone. That's why I claim Lacan immediately dropped his reading of Antigone. There, for Lacan, the authentic encounter is Antigone entering that space that neither…

…a momentary event. Like, this is Antigone. That's why I claim Lacan immediately dropped his reading of Antigone. There, for Lacan, the authentic encounter is Antigone entering that space that neither life nor death, authentic, let's call it maybe domain of…

…and speaking, the Freudian I-truth and speaking. So there's actually a lot. Somewhere from, I would say, seminar 11, around there, later, Lacan devalues truth. Truth is no longer the authentic thing. Lacan till seminar 11, 7, 8 still, and so on. The idea…

…a lot. Somewhere from, I would say, seminar 11, around there, later, Lacan devalues truth. Truth is no longer the authentic thing. Lacan till seminar 11, 7, 8 still, and so on. The idea being that in knowledge you are not subjectively engaged. Knowledge…

…cares? So why not? You know, you admit it as knowledge, but you don't really assume it. It's not truth. And Lacan constantly throughout the fifth objective scientific knowledge. Then something weird comes precisely when notions of drive, real and so on…

…objective scientific knowledge. Then something weird comes precisely when notions of drive, real and so on enter. Truth, because truth for Lacan is a category of the symbolic, the symbolic fiction. Truth is no longer the authentic dimension. No, and I agree…

…Lacan is a category of the symbolic, the symbolic fiction. Truth is no longer the authentic dimension. No, and I agree here with Lacan, we should keep the word authentic, but it's either anxiety or real or whatever, it's no longer truth. So you would go…

…keep the word authentic, but it's either anxiety or real or whatever, it's no longer truth. So you would go that way towards Lacan, because Badiou goes quite the other way. Well, you know, there is a wonderful joke, I know, in Some Like It Hot, you…

…very honest. I know what you mean. He is a genius. And he developed this. You know that. Again, another example of like Lacan. You know that? But you radically change his position here. In being an event, lettre, elevement, his idea is still that event…

…you tomorrow, at least we finished first this, we finished this big other, and it's crucial, because you know why? Because Lacan was able to think subjectivity only when the big other became inconsistent. That's the absolutely crucial link. There is a…

…crucial link. There is a subject insofar as the symbolic structure is inconsistent, the subject of the signifier. Before that, when Lacan didn't accept, still spoke about this big other fool, subject was just imaginary illusion and so on and so on, no?…

…illusion and so on and so on, no? No, no, this book, Less Than Nothing, the chapter on Heidegger, where I go into why Lacan is not a Heideggerian. That is to say, why, knowing Heidegger very well, why Lacan kept the term subject? Why, you know, he…

…on Heidegger, where I go into why Lacan is not a Heideggerian. That is to say, why, knowing Heidegger very well, why Lacan kept the term subject? Why, you know, he didn't follow Heidegger in denouncing subject as modern subjectivity, nihilism, and so on.…

…kept the term subject? Why, you know, he didn't follow Heidegger in denouncing subject as modern subjectivity, nihilism, and so on. Why did Lacan keep? And not only did he keep it, he went even to the end. This is so wonderful that in his maybe crucial…

…Cartesian subject as the subject of Saigonese. philosophy of life. No, no. Cartesian cogito is the subject of psychoanalysis for late Lacan. I think this is absolutely crucial. But again, we can debate. You know what's the big difference between Lacan and…

…psychoanalysis for late Lacan. I think this is absolutely crucial. But again, we can debate. You know what's the big difference between Lacan and Badiou? For Allain, subjectivity is rare. It happens here and there. For him, the mistake of me, Lacan, not in…

…difference between Lacan and Badiou? For Allain, subjectivity is rare. It happens here and there. For him, the mistake of me, Lacan, not in that order. Okay. human animals and then just from time to time rarely the miracle happens subjectively. So let's…

…here. You know what was specific for Lacanians? That as a rule, their sessions are not the standard 50 minutes, but like if Lacan is well disposed, you get five minutes. Otherwise, old lady now who was in analysis with Lacan and she told me that once…

…standard 50 minutes, but like if Lacan is well disposed, you get five minutes. Otherwise, old lady now who was in analysis with Lacan and she told me that once he probably achieved world record she entered the room and Lacan said 200 francs you know the…

…lady now who was in analysis with Lacan and she told me that once he probably achieved world record she entered the room and Lacan said 200 francs you know the like there was no analysis just she directly paid but Lacan was a genius because she told…

…record she entered the room and Lacan said 200 francs you know the like there was no analysis just she directly paid but Lacan was a genius because she told me she felt an incredible relief like you know like But then, okay, you exploit. But…

…as I've already told you, Jacqueline Miller, he is a genius. I mean, he is the only one who knows how to introduce Lacan really, among one of the few. He was sensitive enough to claim that at the same time, sense, bureaucratic element, which is…

…and general differentiation between humans and the animal that we know from the history of philosophy, from Aristotle to Heidegger, from Lacan to Levinas, should be deconstructed. What is Derrida's question? And here I think is Derrida at his best. Here I…

…what legitimizes us to say that only humans experience activated by their animal life world, the thesis of Heidegger. Or another thesis by Lacan, that only humans can feign to fail, like reflectively. I lie that I lie. I tell the truth, but I count that…

…death while animals simply die, or that animals enjoy a harmonious sexual relationship or instinctual mating, while only for us humans, as Lacan put it, il n'y a pas de rapport sexuel. Derrida displays here, I think, the best of what I intended to call…

…of deconstruction, asking naive questions which undermine philosophical propositions taken for granted for centuries. What, for example, legitimizes Lacan to claim with such safe evidence, without providing any data or argument, that animals cannot feign to fail?…

…his deconstruction thought is to question this retroactive totalization. And here, I think, we get two strange bad fellows, Deleuze and Lacan, who, in spite of all their differences, they don't do this. One should admit, for Lacan and for Deleuze, they…

…get two strange bad fellows, Deleuze and Lacan, who, in spite of all their differences, they don't do this. One should admit, for Lacan and for Deleuze, they never totalize in this sense the past. How do we do this retroactive totalization? But also at a…

…in a detailed, pages-long analysis, you get a much more provocative result if you apply, if you read contingency along what Lacan calls the feminine logic of sexuation. not contingent but precisely because there is nothing which is not contingent and then…

…going back to the point, fossils. So, I claim that the true problem, and this brings us to Lacanian psychoanalysis, to what Lacan equivalent of the subject. Lacanian answer to Mayassou would have been that the true problem is not the fossil out there,…

…I have two points. On one hand, I'm very sympathetic to your critique. But you go too back. But on Derrida and Lacan, the very beginning of your question, so very simple question, what do you say about deconstruction, more specifically about Derrida, with…

…Derrida, with regard to animality? Because if I got you right, at one point you even said Derrida, in a sense, goes beyond Lacan. Insofar as he warns us against the risk of a certain retroactive illusion of which Lacan is himself praying. I would agree…

…said Derrida, in a sense, goes beyond Lacan. Insofar as he warns us against the risk of a certain retroactive illusion of which Lacan is himself praying. I would agree with you because I think Lacan, in a sense, when he speaks of the difference between…

…against the risk of a certain retroactive illusion of which Lacan is himself praying. I would agree with you because I think Lacan, in a sense, when he speaks of the difference between the human and the animal, he embraces, in a quite non-critical way,…

…you know, super-determination. The lack of determination is a determination, right. But then at one point you also said that Lacan and Deleuze, unlike Derrida, do not carry out Are we trying totalization? With regard to philosophy only. With regard to…

…just to answer you quickly, then we can go on. You know, my answer here would have been that, yes, we have this Lacan, which is this simplistic Lacan of all animals are caught into death, we humans, and also this idea that, which is... directly…

…then we can go on. You know, my answer here would have been that, yes, we have this Lacan, which is this simplistic Lacan of all animals are caught into death, we humans, and also this idea that, which is... directly falsified by Stephen Jay Gould, and…

…the message, and claims isn't this maybe beyond this just science, a kind of a fatted symbolic communication. So I think that Lacan And maybe there is no clear answer here. Oscillates between two, you know probably more about Lacan here than me, but my…

…communication. So I think that Lacan And maybe there is no clear answer here. Oscillates between two, you know probably more about Lacan here than me, but my impression is that he somehow oscillates between the two versions. One is that we have the human…

…you know, if you focus too much on lack, I precisely tried to avoid, and here also I don't agree, I don't like Lacan. Do you know that this tradition of, oh, humans are animals who lost their instinctual foundation, you know that Arnold Gehlen, the…

…as such is not yet subjective. It can be subjectivized. This is why, in being an event-clased, the whole debate between Lacan, Descartes, and himself is about placing the void. So if you're saying the void is proto-subjective via calling it drive, You're…

…of, oh my god, I'm just a void and so on, whatever, no? And here, we have a certain level of what Lacan would have called relationship between subject and object, small a, a contingent object, which doesn't work without, again, without some form of…

…where data are projected. But here I claim ideology enters, because if we generally call the ground of ideology what Jacques Lacan calls the big other, which here means simply the inconsistent network texture of ideological prejudices and so on, You should…

…the other we're about to hear. It will not be, however, or not anyway not only be, as one of the foremost interpreters of Lacan that Slavoj Žižek speaks to us today. For as he has shown in an extraordinary number of books, and I'm just going to name…

…ticklish subject to in defense of lost causes, and living in the end times, he is not just a brilliant interpreter of Lacan, but also a brilliant reader of Hegel, Marx, and in fact, in one of my absolute personal favorites, which I completely recommend…

…this? You know the popular definition of masturbation, which is you do it to yourself but with an imagined partner. Jacques Lacan, my favorite dogmatic point of reference, once made a wonderful remark claiming that if masturbation is sex with an imagined…

…inherent untruth of what is going on. What do I mean by this? A wonderful example that I really liked. For example, Jacques Lacan says somewhere something which has a male chauvinist twist. I don't like that, but if you take the form of it, it's…

…the Nazis, in order to sustain their entire vision needed a figure like a Jew. You know, it's the same like Lacan has this wonderful, I'm sorry, it's male chauvinist, but nonetheless example where he says, if a husband is pathologically jealous, suspecting…

To do a little bit more, I hope it will not be too boring. Today is the test of pure theory. Today, Lacan, sexual difference. I will try to draw some consequences. And tomorrow, Hegel, the limits of Hegel. Okay, so I warn you, it will be theory. In a…

…race, some animals, and so on. If one ontologizes sexual difference, one is immediately accused of anthropomorphism. So again, how does Lacan do it? Okay, the first answer is clear. That's the first formula, then we'll go much deeper. First, for Lacan,…

…does Lacan do it? Okay, the first answer is clear. That's the first formula, then we'll go much deeper. First, for Lacan, sexual difference is purely formal, in the sense that sexual difference, the way it structures our symbolic universe. For Lacan, the…

…Lacan, sexual difference is purely formal, in the sense that sexual difference, the way it structures our symbolic universe. For Lacan, the way sexual difference functions in the human universe is not immediately linked to biological functions of sexuality. So…

…it, but this pure act of protraction, repetition, somehow sexualizes it. But this brings us already to the first key point of Lacan, that... This ability of sexuality to spill over different spheres is for Lacan not the sign of the strength of sexuality…