…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 but the sign of its weakness precisely because it never works as it were in…

…as it were in its own domain it has to expand. The first indication should be the following one, I think. For Lacan, to sexualize the universe, insofar as for Lacan, sexuality is inherently linked to failure, incompleteness, and so on. To sexualize the…

…to expand. The first indication should be the following one, I think. For Lacan, to sexualize the universe, insofar as for Lacan, sexuality is inherently linked to failure, incompleteness, and so on. To sexualize the universe, It means that we should opt…

…a deadlock. This impossibility of getting it all to totalize our notion of reality. And I claim that the truly subversive thing that Lacan compels us to do is, sorry if I sound pretentious, I don't have time to develop all this now, but I will try,…

…order to make our experience of reality consistent, We have to supplement our experience by some kind of a virtual fiction. This, as Lacan was aware, this was already a lesson done by Bentham whose again theory of fictions I think it is even now recently…

…art at its best. And this is, again, how our reality is structured. So, okay, let's now go on patiently about how Lacan tries to formalize sexual difference. Of course, you probably know the ABC, which is Lacan proposed the so-called formulas of sexuation,…

…now go on patiently about how Lacan tries to formalize sexual difference. Of course, you probably know the ABC, which is Lacan proposed the so-called formulas of sexuation, where the masculine side is defined by the universal function and its exception. Like…

…that very reason the set is non-all, non-totalized. To give you a simple philosophical example of this, I think that for Lacan the passage from early to late Wittgenstein would have been a clear example. The early Wittgenstein is masculine, you know, it…

…as it may appear. It's not simply, you know, this old wisdom, an exception to every universality. No, no, it's not wisdom. Lacan is very precise here. First, it goes... Still, we will go much more in detail later. Now, first, at the abstract level...…

…it works. And then the example itself gives more. You probably know, again, one of the great moments of Hegelian, what Lacan calls la longue, reference to word place, contingency of language. Hegel does here a consciously wrong etymology. You know that the…

…bit of, we still have quarter of an hour, a little bit of speculation. I think that the original culprit here is already Lacan himself. who clearly in his last like 30, 40 years is oscillating between two modes of ethical political. One is worse than…

…a social game, don't take it too seriously, and so on and so on. Now what makes it so interesting is that the late Lacan went even further along this liberal path and renounced even this idea of violent transgression. This is why in his last decade or…

…the symptom. What he means here is something very clear. He says it. I quote you. No complicated phrases. For example, the late Lacan says, one should not push an analysis too far. When the patient thinks he is happy to live, it is enough. You have…

…end, just find a balance which would be a little bit more, a little bit less painful and that's make so again. Lacan often says that the Golos analysis is making life a little bit easier. Now it's nonetheless interesting here how Lacan oscillates between…

…again. Lacan often says that the Golos analysis is making life a little bit easier. Now it's nonetheless interesting here how Lacan oscillates between two versions which again unfortunately are for me both worse, each worse than the other. One is, and it's…

…unfortunately are for me both worse, each worse than the other. One is, and it's very interesting to hear this from Lacan, who is otherwise so aggressive against Hegel's Liste der Vernunft, The Cunning of Reason. It's a kind of a vulgarized Hegelianism.…

…who is otherwise so aggressive against Hegel's Liste der Vernunft, The Cunning of Reason. It's a kind of a vulgarized Hegelianism. Lacan quotes Matthew 6, 32-34, you know, that famous parable where believers worry, what will we eat, what will we drink, and…

…so on, and God tells them, just believe in me and all these things will come for free, and so on and so on. Lacan positively refers to this, but it's, I noticed, You know, always when Lacan quotes in different years the same passage, you should be…

…come for free, and so on and so on. Lacan positively refers to this, but it's, I noticed, You know, always when Lacan quotes in different years the same passage, you should be attentive to the context, it's usually the opposite reading, no? There are…

…will come by itself your life will be easier you will be happier but don't think about that you know confront the truth and here Lacan comes close to cunning of reason it will come by itself life will be better and so on and so on So, often, so…

…And again, as you notice, this is a very naive, I claim, pre-Hegelian idea of cunning of reason. Very strange to get it from Lacan. Here you have, I claim, you see still the big other. Trust God or the big other that somehow you will also feel better,…

…somehow you will also feel better, have better sex, whatever you want. No, just go for the truth. But then you have... The late Lacan who is again, who goes again even a step further and who claims that no, abandon truth to put it very simply. Be…

…under his care do not take them for real. One should somehow bring oneself to remain taken in by them, fooled by them. Lacan could say that those who are not taken in-er, le non-dupe-er, if one doesn't act as if semblances are real, if one doesn't…

…be my first point against Miller, I claim that this position and I am shocked that Miller doesn't notice it. You see here how Lacan was right when he says the unconscious is political. That is to say that even when we debate about the status of the…

…of cynicism and the real of jouissance is totally false in the Lacanian terms. Why? When you have the real and semblances. Lacan always emphasizes that cynicism is a false position because it doesn't see that the real is not simply behind semblances but…

…you take away the semblance you lose the real itself. Like, you know, I often quoted it, that old joke quoted by Lacan, Alphonse Allais, the great French satiricist who showed, I don't want to be accused of politically correctness, to a woman like Woody.…

…the real. The real is the real only. You are only naked beneath your dress so in other words this is for Lacan isn't cynicist because the cynics idea is precisely that semblances appearances are only appearances the whole point of psychoanalysis is to be…

…non-dupe air is not this cynical point, you know it's not true but pretend it's true, is that those le non-dupe air are for Lacan cynics who do not see Again, the weight of appearances. They do not see that the real is in the appearances, that the…

…the real into the symbolic itself as its inconsistency and so on. And this, I think, is the single greatest achievement of Lacan. How he, for him, again, as he developed innumerable times, the real is not an inaccessible beyond. As Lacan put it, the…

…single greatest achievement of Lacan. How he, for him, again, as he developed innumerable times, the real is not an inaccessible beyond. As Lacan put it, the real is nothing but a deadlock of a symbolic formalization. If you put it in this way then of…

…still what about the point that appearances are only semblances and so on and so on there are they are semblances But, you know, Lacan here again is a genius if you read him closely. But the real for Lacan is ultimately a semblance of the real. The…

…on there are they are semblances But, you know, Lacan here again is a genius if you read him closely. But the real for Lacan is ultimately a semblance of the real. The real is not, again, a hard real beyond. The real is the impossibility, the limit of…

…you agree... Next time, I want to do some new stuff. I further developed it. I think only now I understood it. What Lacan really means by there is no sexual difference, his formulas, and what this means for progressive struggle, I really think only now…

…exhaustion, Zizek has been its indefatigable re-inventor, articulating fresh insights again and again through Marx and Freud and Lacan, and producing therefrom stratagems for a re-politicization of our commoditized world. Reading Zizek, one feels less hopeless,…

…the same time virtual. And here I'm an unashamed Platonist. I think that Plato just has to be corrected the way Lacan suggests. A Platonic idea is not some deeper substantial reality. It's just, you know, when an unexpected miraculous ethical act occurs.…

…that in a typical philosophical gesture, she first brutally simplifies psychoanalysis to make her point. Because for Freud and Lacan, as was convincingly elaborated also by Jean Laplanche, the traumatic encounter of the other as desiring, which interrupts the…

…as desiring, which interrupts the narcissistic circuit, is precisely the basic experience constitutive of desiring subjectivity. Which is why for Lacan, desire is a desire of the other. This is why Lacan's ethics of psychoanalysis stands for his attempt to…

…itself like a computer virus. No wonder that when talking about mem, Daniel Dennett regularly resorts to the same metaphors as Lacan apropos language. In both cases, we are dealing with a parasite which penetrates and occupies the human individual, using it…

…but maybe we can do something and we will have to do something at the social, ecological level. And this is what Lacan means by his notion of real impossible. It's not this opportunistic impossible like, oh, you cannot touch it. No, no, Lacan's point…

…I like your whatever, no. To have authentic relation of the other, you have to have this moment of... This was our, as Lacan would have put it, surplus enjoyment. And then we didn't need it. Again, it wasn't then, oh, an orgy of dirty jokes. And…

…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.…

…and symbolic order is that of the medium of reconciliation, and mediation, of peaceful coexistence. It's not only Habermas, but even early Lacan whose idea is this, the idea that we have this imaginary violent dual conflict, and then language is as such a…

…human violence without language, which is not grounded in language. But here I would like to supplement Heidegger with Jacques Lacan. Throughout his work, Lacan proposes variations on Heidegger's motive of language as the house of being. But Lacan adds…

…which is not grounded in language. But here I would like to supplement Heidegger with Jacques Lacan. Throughout his work, Lacan proposes variations on Heidegger's motive of language as the house of being. But Lacan adds something. For Lacan, language is…

…Heidegger with Jacques Lacan. Throughout his work, Lacan proposes variations on Heidegger's motive of language as the house of being. But Lacan adds something. For Lacan, language is a torture house of being. Quote from Lacan, in the light of the Freudian…

…Throughout his work, Lacan proposes variations on Heidegger's motive of language as the house of being. But Lacan adds something. For Lacan, language is a torture house of being. Quote from Lacan, in the light of the Freudian experience, man is a subject…

…motive of language as the house of being. But Lacan adds something. For Lacan, language is a torture house of being. Quote from Lacan, in the light of the Freudian experience, man is a subject caught in and tortured by language. And that's for Lacan the…

…Lacan, in the light of the Freudian experience, man is a subject caught in and tortured by language. And that's for Lacan the basic lesson of psychoanalysis. What we call symptoms from conversion symptoms inscribed into the body up to total psychotic…

…into language or into symbolic community is always marked by some act of violence, initiatic sacrifice or whatever. This, for Lacan, Heidegger ignores. This radical discord, this harmony between language and subject. And this, as I will not have time to…

…language and subject. And this, as I will not have time to develop it fully today, but this is the reason why Lacan sticks to the term subject. Because people often ask, Lacan, Jacques Lacan, who was a close reader of Heidegger, although they were…

…time to develop it fully today, but this is the reason why Lacan sticks to the term subject. Because people often ask, Lacan, Jacques Lacan, who was a close reader of Heidegger, although they were not really friends. Heidegger thought Lacan was the famous…

…it fully today, but this is the reason why Lacan sticks to the term subject. Because people often ask, Lacan, Jacques Lacan, who was a close reader of Heidegger, although they were not really friends. Heidegger thought Lacan was the famous phrase.…

…often ask, Lacan, Jacques Lacan, who was a close reader of Heidegger, although they were not really friends. Heidegger thought Lacan was the famous phrase. Heidegger's reaction to Lacan's écrit was, here is a psychiatrist who himself needs a psychiatrist or…

…écrit was, here is a psychiatrist who himself needs a psychiatrist or something like that and so on. But nonetheless, why did Lacan insist, why didn't he want to give up the term of subject? What was for Lacan missing in Heidegger's Dasein? was his…

…that and so on. But nonetheless, why did Lacan insist, why didn't he want to give up the term of subject? What was for Lacan missing in Heidegger's Dasein? was his name for the essence of being human, for Lacan, was not, Lacan was not a subjectivist in…

…up the term of subject? What was for Lacan missing in Heidegger's Dasein? was his name for the essence of being human, for Lacan, was not, Lacan was not a subjectivist in this active sense of for Heidegger we are just passive beings, the da, the here…

…of subject? What was for Lacan missing in Heidegger's Dasein? was his name for the essence of being human, for Lacan, was not, Lacan was not a subjectivist in this active sense of for Heidegger we are just passive beings, the da, the here of being, and…

…of being incorporated into language. The psychoanalytic term for this wound of language is of course symbolic castration. But now Lacan implicitly draws another conclusion from this. The conclusion is that not only language tortures us Again, in this sense…

…is always a traumatic experience. But language as such, I think this is the deepest insight, often it's ignored by Lacan, that language as such, in its substantial presence as the big other, our spiritual substance, is stupid. It's inherently stupid,…

…can also be shown one of the wonderful criticisms of Heidegger, that I read from Lacanian standpoint, is a French reader of Lacan. Unfortunately, he died. Wonderful book he wrote, Ce que Lacan dit de lettre, what Lacan says about being François Balmes, who…

…that I read from Lacanian standpoint, is a French reader of Lacan. Unfortunately, he died. Wonderful book he wrote, Ce que Lacan dit de lettre, what Lacan says about being François Balmes, who claimed in an apparently very naive clinical way that...…

…is a French reader of Lacan. Unfortunately, he died. Wonderful book he wrote, Ce que Lacan dit de lettre, what Lacan says about being François Balmes, who claimed in an apparently very naive clinical way that... Heidegger's existential analytic of Dasein,…

…talk, but they're, as it were, deprived of all symbolic substance, non-engaged, totally passive, the living dead. So this is for... Lacan, he has a very radical reading here. This is for Lacan the truly radical dimension of Cartesian cogito which escapes…

…substance, non-engaged, totally passive, the living dead. So this is for... Lacan, he has a very radical reading here. This is for Lacan the truly radical dimension of Cartesian cogito which escapes Heidegger. But now let me go just on to conclude. So now…

…being qualified to make the appropriate choice. But even more radically, the subjective impossibility To answer the question of desire, when Lacan defines the object of desire as lost, his point is not simply that we never know what we desire and are…

…why, apropos of the hysterical question, why am I that name? Why am I what you say that I am? Mother, teacher, whatever. Lacan points out that the subject as such is hysterical. Lacan defines the subject as that which is not an object. The point being…

…name? Why am I what you say that I am? Mother, teacher, whatever. Lacan points out that the subject as such is hysterical. Lacan defines the subject as that which is not an object. The point being that the impossibility to identify yourself as an object,…

…yourself as an object, to know what you are for the others, is constitutive of the subject. In this way, Lacan generates the entire diversity of pathological subjective positions hysterical question. The hysteric and the obsessional enact two modalities of…

…human artefacts and so on. We humans are here reduced to a pure disembodied gaze observing our own absence. And as Lacan pointed out, this is the fundamental subjective position of fantasy. To be reduced to a gaze which observes the parental copulation,…

…the scene of its own absence. This would be, I think, the Lacanian notion of utopia. A vision of desire which functions without what Lacan calls object small a, the object cause of desire with its twists and loops and so on and so on. This here, if I…

…Tertullian never said this, no? He said something much more interesting. He said, he wrote, it is And replace impossible with real, Lacan says. Impossible real, it is certain because it's real. Oh, our guy. But okay, here is the entire quote. The Son of…

…philosophy it's still elementary but i try to arrive at the notion of todestrip death drive through a detailed analysis of what Lacan, Jacques Lacan, meant by his famous ethical motto, which he defines as the motto of ethics of psychoanalysis, which is, do…

…still elementary but i try to arrive at the notion of todestrip death drive through a detailed analysis of what Lacan, Jacques Lacan, meant by his famous ethical motto, which he defines as the motto of ethics of psychoanalysis, which is, do not compromise…

…of self-realization and so on. We have a more Nietzschean, immoral ethics, and we have what I call Western Buddhism. What did Lacan want to say with his maxim? Let's go through these versions. The first thing to state categorically is that Lacanian ethics…

…the unrestrained rule of of what Freud called Lustprinzip, the functioning of the psychic apparatus that aims at achieving pleasure. For Lacan, hedonism is in fact the very model of postponing desire on behalf of realistic compromises. In order to attain the…

…of loose principle. And again, as already said, even so-called Western Buddhism is not immune to this trap. But for Lacan, desire is an ethical category. Desire does not mean follow your natural spontaneous inclinations and so on. It functions like…

…Kantian ethical duty, like a foreign traumatic intruder which from the outside disturbs the subject's homeostatic desires. It is, for Lacan, it's desire itself which is Jenseits Deslus Principes. Desire means, like, you follow it even if it brings pain. So,…

…Deslus Principes. Desire means, like, you follow it even if it brings pain. So, hedonism is to be rejected. That's not what Lacan means. Is then Lacanian ethics a version of the heroic immoral ethics, which enjoins us to remain faithful to oneself, to…

…however, a limit to Stalinism, not that it is too immoral, but that it is secretly all too moral, still relying on what Lacan calls a figure of the big other. That is to say, in what is probably the most intelligent legitimization of the Stalinist…

…will be given their due and their innocence and their highest sacrifice for the cause will be recognized. This is what Lacan, in his seminar on ethics of psychoanalysis, refers to as the perspective of the last judgment, a perspective even more clearly…

…failure and so on and so on. So again, I think that whatever Hegel is guilty of, he's not guilty of this. But back to Lacan, this is why Lacan's motto, il n'y a pas de grand autre, there is no big other, the big other doesn't exist, brings us to…

…grand autre, there is no big other, the big other doesn't exist, brings us to the very core of the ethical problematic. What Lacan excludes is precisely this perspective of the last judgment, the idea that somewhere, even today, if it will be as a truly…

…you, no, it's not you, it's your unconscious, the other's discourse, don't feel guilty, you are not responsible for it. Lacan himself precisely emphasized that if anything the lesson of psychoanalysis is that you are even more responsible than you think.…

…as it were for your unconscious. And this brings me now to the first crucial ethical point, in what sense Lacan refers to Kant's philosophy as the crucial antecedent of the psychoanalytic ethics. According to the standard critique, which you probably…

…a Buddhist ethics? There are some reasons to consider this option. Does Buddhism not lead us to enact a kind of what Lacan calls traversing the fantasy, to overcome the illusions on which our desires are based and to confront the void beneath each object…

…you take, there is something which is even less than zero. That's the Higgs field. And I think this is what Lacan aims at when he emphasizes the difference between Freud's Todestrieb and the so-called Nirvana principle, according to which every life system…

…why do I have to, so to speak, in the description of capitalist systems, so to speak, rely on the death drive, when with Lacan, in principle, so to speak, also in the 16th, 17th seminar, one could rather go to the discourse theory and rather, so to…

…so to speak, to the... This is an emphatic emphasis on the turkish crisis, also in its philosophical and political dimension. But Lacan offers a solution in the 16th and 17th century. He would say that there is a capitalist discourse and a psychoanalytical…

…by hysterizing it. Yeah, but this is for me a very difficult, complex question which we touched here, because you know that Lacan was searching for the right formula. At some point he thought that how Mervet functions, at some point he thought that this…

…Jouyre, is that its capitalist discourse is a heron master's discourse which just places change, sometimes that it's hysterical, I think that Lacan was searching for the right way there, but I don't think there is an alternative in what I said, because you…

…drive, trip is if you want ontologically more primordial then, desire, but what you, you know what's the problem here with Lacan? He's, like Foucault and others, struggling with two, you know, we all know, at least already from Adorno, that modernity has…

…is this capitalist dynamics, and I didn't yet find a really good theory of bringing the two dimensions together. So sometimes Lacan flirts more with this Foucauldian view, and his thesis is there, modernity is discourse of university, where we no longer…

…and so on and so on but one has also to be to be critical here in the sense of How should I put it? Yeah, yeah, Lacan was great, but I wouldn't, how should I put it? He, unfortunately, I must say, in my old age, I'm coming to this, he had certain…

…how should I put it? He, unfortunately, I must say, in my old age, I'm coming to this, he had certain limitations, Lacan. I mean, it's very difficult. No, no, no, I'm still theological dogmatic. The man who doesn't have limitations is Hegel. I'm getting,…

…the consistency of his subjectivity, why does he need such a figure of the Jew? So to conclude with this wonderful formula of Jacques Lacan in Seminary 11, where he says, the picture that I see is my eye, it's my fantasy, but I am also in the picture.…

…claim, if there is a lesson to be learned from 20th century fundamentalism, it's that the exact opposite is the truth. First, as Lacan puts it, as every contemporary neurotic will tell you, if God doesn't exist, that is to say, when you live in a…

…So I'm on the right way, I think. So let me approach it slowly, systematically. One of the definitions of... what Jacques Lacan calls real, le real, is the point of impossibility within a field of reality. Along the same lines, what for Alain Badiou…

…positive features, speech, tool making, reflexive thinking, whatever, but the rise of a new point of impossibility, designated by Freud and Lacan as the impossible, real, ultimate point of Reference of desire and so on and so on. There are even very…

…I put it in this way. I headed we agree that, now I will give you just the very simplistic coordinates, that for Lacan, following Freud, the only authentic emotion or affect, they are different, I know, I know Damasio, but I simplify it now, is anxiety,…

…into it now but the crucial thing is to that to put it very simply I simplify it again the great break between Lacan and Freud sorry Lacan and Heidegger is that for Lacan Anxiety doesn't have an object. Anxiety, you confront the void itself, but that…

…the crucial thing is to that to put it very simply I simplify it again the great break between Lacan and Freud sorry Lacan and Heidegger is that for Lacan Anxiety doesn't have an object. Anxiety, you confront the void itself, but that fear has an…

…to put it very simply I simplify it again the great break between Lacan and Freud sorry Lacan and Heidegger is that for Lacan Anxiety doesn't have an object. Anxiety, you confront the void itself, but that fear has an object, an ontic object. Anxiety is…

…itself, but that fear has an object, an ontic object. Anxiety is precisely when you are no longer afraid of something. For Lacan, precisely anxiety does have an object, for interpreting Freud. And this object is of course, haha objects, mollet and so on…

…And this object is of course, haha objects, mollet and so on and so on, all that stuff, no? So here, Again, for Lacan, it's anxiety. With Badiou, Badiou's fidelity to the event would have been somehow on the side of enthusiasm. And where I tend to…

…if looking some into the eye, and then it's a single, first it's an experience which cannot be protracted. The idea of Lacan is that, you know, it's like Antigone. You enter some prohibited And B, Lacan unfortunately insists on this one, this ultimate,…

…cannot be protracted. The idea of Lacan is that, you know, it's like Antigone. You enter some prohibited And B, Lacan unfortunately insists on this one, this ultimate, let's call it naively authentic subjective experience of traversing the fantasy, is…

…use the very terms referred to signifying mechanisms, like, you know, the point, le point, which is simply his name for what Lacan calls master signifier, you know, the one mark which decides yes or no or whatever, or the entire symptom structure, you…

…constitutive propensity of our being, which totally, which of course makes it much more inoffensive. What's Kant's problem? This is why Lacan then made you know the line proposed that Kant with Satan. What does Kant aim at? Because for Lacan, When he…

…Kant's problem? This is why Lacan then made you know the line proposed that Kant with Satan. What does Kant aim at? Because for Lacan, When he says Kant, Saab is the truth of Kant. Be very careful. Lacan's point is not Kant was secretly a sadist. This…

…it, it's duties for their own good, but really it's for your sadistic pleasure. This is how Kant's moral river is usually... No, what Lacan claims is that it's not Kant who is a sadist, it's Tzad who is a Kantian. That is the same. and confronts Don…

…desire. But that's not the Lacanian real. The Lacanian real is the, this is wisdom, this is wisdom, confront reality and so on. For Lacan, the real into the real. Real is not what you get at once you tear away the screen of appearances. Real is the,…

…is not, behind The Mask is just his fucking stupid face and his The real is, and here you see why real is for Lacan death drive and compulsion to repeat. You remember when he puts the mask on, he gets caught into this absolute compulsion to act like…

…you just help people, blah, blah, blah. Sorry. Do you want something to say? Yes. Okay. You mentioned, backtracking to it, you mentioned Lacan and the spectral stage of the mirror stage. The synonym for that is the real stage. No, no, no, that's a good…

…there is an irreducible depth effect. And this is what Lacan's point, if you must know it, that wonderful old story that Lacan uses again and again when Lacan tries to explain and again about the legendary ancient myth of a competition between the two…

…And this is what Lacan's point, if you must know it, that wonderful old story that Lacan uses again and again when Lacan tries to explain and again about the legendary ancient myth of a competition between the two painters. They compete who will do…

…as masquerade. It's nothing behind the curtain. The illusion is the very illusion of death. And then we can... This is how then Lacan connects this kind of cheating with the idea that animals can be cheated in a simple, direct way of, you pretend that…

…be cheated in a simple, direct way of, you pretend that you are A, but you are in reality B. Only humans can cheat, according to Lacan, I don't know if it's true, in a reflexive way, that you cheat in such a way that you say A because you count on…

…know that? To lie, to lie, to lie, to lie in the guise of truth. Or, how shall I put it, to feign to feign, as Lacan puts it, to play to play. That's for Lacan the truly symbolic to this point, so for Lacan, this is, this is, this is the symbolic,…

…in the guise of truth. Or, how shall I put it, to feign to feign, as Lacan puts it, to play to play. That's for Lacan the truly symbolic to this point, so for Lacan, this is, this is, this is the symbolic, symbolic cheating as such, and, sorry, you…

…it, to feign to feign, as Lacan puts it, to play to play. That's for Lacan the truly symbolic to this point, so for Lacan, this is, this is, this is the symbolic, symbolic cheating as such, and, sorry, you want to... Well, there's a famous Jewish joke…

…What I would have said is that the point is yes I agree with you and this is linked to the remark you made before. Lacan started with this crucial in how only in later Lacan, starting from the seminar 11, the real is no longer this hard real, this…

…agree with you and this is linked to the remark you made before. Lacan started with this crucial in how only in later Lacan, starting from the seminar 11, the real is no longer this hard real, this pseudo-Nietzschean real, you know, this idea of real is…

…a feminist, give a proper due to Lacanians. Lacan's big motive is that woman is not mother at her most fundamental. That, as Lacan puts it somewhere so beautifully, behind every mother there is a Medea, you know, who Okay, so my answer to you would have…

…a way, you what you are. How does this function? Allow me to repeat some old analysis of mine to make this clear. Lacan has a wonderful definition of a master signifier somewhere where he says something very precise. He says that the master signifier is…

…specifically Russian touch? Why manure? He thinks he has the most of wine and the ridiculous. Where was it, Guara? this is what Lacan means with there is no sexual relationship that it's never you and your partner alone there has to be a mediation of…

…it's almost never I will explain immediately it's almost never just you and the partner it's the way you fantasize but for Lacan in this sense that's my old joke if we understand usually masturbation as Real sex is masturbation with a real partner. That…

…have it an occasional whatever you want I cannot do it I'm a very old-fashioned romantic but what I want to say is that when Lacan speaks about this you know reaching out to the real other and so on and so on that's Lacan is here very very romantic…

…want to say is that when Lacan speaks about this you know reaching out to the real other and so on and so on that's Lacan is here very very romantic he's as far as possible from this uh how should I put it cynical pseudo psychoanalytic view that what…

…It's very difficult to really accept the other, not just somebody who, how shall I put it, who fits your fantasy. And for Lacan, and I agree with you, that's love. Love for Lacan, there is a big change here in Lacan. All good interpreters know.…

…somebody who, how shall I put it, who fits your fantasy. And for Lacan, and I agree with you, that's love. Love for Lacan, there is a big change here in Lacan. All good interpreters know. Somewhere till the early 60s, Lacan, reduced love to an imaginary…

…your fantasy. And for Lacan, and I agree with you, that's love. Love for Lacan, there is a big change here in Lacan. All good interpreters know. Somewhere till the early 60s, Lacan, reduced love to an imaginary narcissistic illusion. You know, all this…

…love. Love for Lacan, there is a big change here in Lacan. All good interpreters know. Somewhere till the early 60s, Lacan, reduced love to an imaginary narcissistic illusion. You know, all this shit. In loving the others, you really love yourself in…

…imaginary narcissistic illusion. You know, all this shit. In loving the others, you really love yourself in the other. And then Lacan played on imaginary love versus desire. Desire is the authentic thing. But later, Lacan changed the view, claiming that in…

…you really love yourself in the other. And then Lacan played on imaginary love versus desire. Desire is the authentic thing. But later, Lacan changed the view, claiming that in love, about that in real sexual act we fantasize and so on and so on. This…

…view, claiming that in love, about that in real sexual act we fantasize and so on and so on. This is not, again, for Lacan, this is not all sex, this is not love. He doesn't devalue love. more jouissance of the other. And don't confuse this with the…

…this is not love. He doesn't devalue love. more jouissance of the other. And don't confuse this with the false version of Lacan when some people think that Lacan's point is this, that women have some mystical outside language experience. No, there is a…

…try to convince me I buy this, that. Maybe, I don't know, there are women who relate to men, they earn in prostitution, As Lacan puts it very nicely, the function of money is to allow you to keep out of a certain libidinal circuit. Why do you have…

…discount refrozen Christian baby. And after five minutes we say, okay, we did our duty, now we can talk normally. This is what Lacan means, the role of the big other and so on, the unconscious is outside. If there is a thing Lacan is radically opposed…

…This is what Lacan means, the role of the big other and so on, the unconscious is outside. If there is a thing Lacan is radically opposed to, it is precisely this idea that your desires or whatever are... falls into the significant. It is, the way…

…you because this, this, this, this. But all the real properties become, in your experience, of course, an expression of there is some, as Lacan likes to put it, there is something in you more than you. told, that let's say you flirt with a guy or a…

…all this there is a Jewish plot. It means all these fears can be focused in this one figure. And this is what Lacan means, nothing mysterious by signifier without signified. This, it's empty because, as I told you, apropos of the Jew and so on, or…

…some form of rapture with all the grounds that have already been established Yeah, but not the infinity of the indiscernible. Again. Lacan said that the only thing that is infinite is the woman's orgasm. The only thing that is infinite is the woman's…

…I have, I must, now we are entering another domain. I, with all I claim that he oscillates there getting danger to enjoy fully. Lacan is here much more ambiguous. I claim he, as it is always with Lacan, he cheats like crazy, but that's why I like him,…

…he oscillates there getting danger to enjoy fully. Lacan is here much more ambiguous. I claim he, as it is always with Lacan, he cheats like crazy, but that's why I like him, because he's truly creative in the sense that he's experimenting, taking one…

…the sense that he's experimenting, taking one path, going back, the next one. Okay, to simplify it very much, I claim Lacan oscillates there between male, female. To put it very simply and elementary for Lacan, the main formula of sexuation is universality…

…simplify it very much, I claim Lacan oscillates there between male, female. To put it very simply and elementary for Lacan, the main formula of sexuation is universality with an exception. You assert universality, but universality is founded in an exception.…

…and so on. But let me just finish the previous line, because it's important. This is not the non-all and so on. Even Lacan can be here, one can argue against Lacan through his own example, which is very unfortunate for him, Saint Teresa. Fuck him, read…

…the previous line, because it's important. This is not the non-all and so on. Even Lacan can be here, one can argue against Lacan through his own example, which is very unfortunate for him, Saint Teresa. Fuck him, read Saint Teresa. She was in no way…

…read it is that the very idea of dark kingdom, where an absolute woman, this is the male fantasy. So the way I read Lacan is that out, it's not outside language, but it's on the contrary fully in language. The woman is more in language than men. The…

…men. The fact that woman is not all in language doesn't mean part of her is out. It means she has no exception. As Lacan puts it, not all at the same time means there is nothing which is Lacan's point is that universality needs a founding exception.…

…very deep is that human voice There is always a kind of a ventriloquist aspect to it. That voice is potentially what Lacan calls the object A. partial organ within you which controls you, a potential threat, destabilizing a foreign intruder. And this is…

…beginning this naturalization. sound talk, searching for a body, something haunting you, and so on and so on. And this is basically what Lacan is saying, for example, when he talks about voice as the object small a. Yes? I don't want to drag you even…

…suicidal, repetitive drive, which is crucial for Freudian notion of That it's a repetitive drive. Repetitive in the sense that, as Lacan puts it very precisely, in this distinction he uses English terms here, Lacan, between aim and goal. Goal is what you…

…repetitive drive. Repetitive in the sense that, as Lacan puts it very precisely, in this distinction he uses English terms here, Lacan, between aim and goal. Goal is what you officially want. let's say, to achieve something. But for Lacan, the true…

…uses English terms here, Lacan, between aim and goal. Goal is what you officially want. let's say, to achieve something. But for Lacan, the true satisfaction of the drive is the circular movement of the drive itself. You don't want to achieve, it's like…

…will turn into a self-goal. I want to tell you here a story told to me by nice British Lacanian, very good popularizer of Lacan, but also independently of this, not an idiot, Darian Leder. In his, I think, one of the first books, he, it's a very…

…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…

…are launching issue 30. The general subject is objet A. If you're following Jacques Alain Miller throughout his readings of Jacques Lacan, seminar from another to the other, in this issue. Objia is not unseizable. Objia is captured in the phantasma and it's…

…for men and for women in the sense that this is the first object when the child when the baby the object of desire Lacan pursues the concept and this is how he comes up with his famous line there isn't sexual relationships Now the hysterical loans her…

…which needs to, I don't know, needs to read someplace for a while. Anyway, this is the hysterical pantomime that Lacan makes reference to. Now, as for the sadomasochistic pantomime, Laurence Bataille, Lacan's stepdaughter and half-sister to Judith Lacan, who…

…that Lacan makes reference to. Now, as for the sadomasochistic pantomime, Laurence Bataille, Lacan's stepdaughter and half-sister to Judith Lacan, who for a while was called also Judith Bataille, writes a story which early enough got published in Ornicar…

…know it or not to make his parents even more unhappy and so on. But this need for, here we should supplement Lacan, subject supposed to know, the formula of transference. The fundamental figure of ideology is subject supposed not to know. We need another…

…point of this book is to the delicate echoing between internal and external real in psychoanalysis. For Freud and Lacan, external shocks, brutal, unexpected encounters or intrusions, due their properly traumatic impact to the way they touch a preexisting…

…as destruction but you survive your death and this kind of blank existence for her is something that Freud and for she thinks even Lacan was not able sorry was not able to think. Okay, now I'm still working on this. I think, I will not go into it…

…on this. I think, I will not go into it now how, I think things are a little bit more complex here that for Lacan a similar trauma where you as it were lose what she thinks happens as an accident afterwards, external encounter I think that for Lacan…

…a similar trauma where you as it were lose what she thinks happens as an accident afterwards, external encounter I think that for Lacan it's constitutive of subject, a subject we are in a way living that and so on but that's another topic. What I do…

…an incredible form of censorship. What they are afraid of is pure appearance. Precisely, what is dangerous is appearance. And again, for Lacan, real is not the deep real when you tear it off, the ultimate truth. The real is appearance. And so in this…

…deep real when you tear it off, the ultimate truth. The real is appearance. And so in this sense, In this sense, I claim, when Lacan says there is no big other, in the sense of substantial reference and so on, it in no way, it doesn't mean a kind of…

…horrible core of the truth. And we need symbolic fictions as a protection. And what I was opposing is precisely this... misreading of Lacan along these lines. As if for Lacan, this is why I more and more hate Lacan's ethics seminar. I think it's caught…

…symbolic fictions as a protection. And what I was opposing is precisely this... misreading of Lacan along these lines. As if for Lacan, this is why I more and more hate Lacan's ethics seminar. I think it's caught into this model. Truth is something like…

…the Lacanian real, I think. It's much more, I would say the same thing that I said about appearances that... The greatness of Lacan is that on the one hand, he does not believe in substantial truth behind appearances. It's not that we have just symbolic…

…appearances. It's not that we have just symbolic fiction, there is some hard real too strong to confront. But on the other hand, if Lacan, there is something Lacan is not, it's that he is not this kind of a postmodernist, or oh, there is only the game…

…we have just symbolic fiction, there is some hard real too strong to confront. But on the other hand, if Lacan, there is something Lacan is not, it's that he is not this kind of a postmodernist, or oh, there is only the game of appearances and so on.…

…at Boston University. His list of publications is very long. Among his many interests, he's also interested in philosophy and in Lacan, and many of his interests are shared with Slavoj Žižek. We are going to have this introduction, then Slavoj Žižek is…

…the year 1975, the editors of a volume entitled in French, The Technical Writings of Freud by the arcane French psychoanalyst Lacan. When they chose as their cover illustration a photo of a giant elephant poised to rampage through the savannah, the message…

…American popular culture. Just savor the title of his 1993 volume, Everything You Wanted to Know, You Always Wanted to Know About Lacan, But Were Afraid to Ask Hitchcock, and you'll have a sense of the irresistibility of the Zizek effect. Slavoj Žižek is…

…but as dirty old man replete with the stained underwear of Hermann Kafka, that's France's dad. He has also made Joseph Lacan, as he has somewhere written, as a privileged intellectual tool to reactualize German idealism. So Lacan, whose inspiration was in…

…He has also made Joseph Lacan, as he has somewhere written, as a privileged intellectual tool to reactualize German idealism. So Lacan, whose inspiration was in part the legendary seminar on Hegel of Kozhev in the 1930s, seems headed via Žižek through a…

…or 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... thinks at the level of what Lacan called the big other. And now I'm coming, if you allow me, you're my super ego, a little bit more. The problem…

…if this is the case, then life is boring. I think that the whole point is... Can nonetheless this, can the very fact that, as Lacan puts it, there is no big other and so on, can, does this mean that it's just a radical truth, you know, like Lacan…

…Lacan puts it, there is no big other and so on, can, does this mean that it's just a radical truth, you know, like Lacan develops a propos antigone? Is truth just this momentary encounter? For a moment you see it, you shouldn't look too long into the…

…and so on and so on. Why am I saying this? Because this would be for me to bring it to the end, what Lacan says, the big other doesn't exist. You know, usually people say either you are a subjectivist, self-responsible, and this means you are arrogant…

…clarify this confusion, I think that Jacques Lacan's logic of the so-called non-all can be of some help here. Lacan distinguishes the so-called masculine side, universality, all, universal law, grounded in exception, and non-all, where there is no exception,…

…is i think this i think is what we should accept the first premise of materialist ecology is nature doesn't exist Like Lacan said, la femme n'existe pas. If we mean by nature this kind of a mythic, balanced, self-reproducing universe which is then…

…and reject a certain anthropology, which we find not only in... almost entire modern philosophy, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, but even Lacan, at least the early Lacan, this idea that man is a sick nature, derailed nature. Nature is already in itself…

…which we find not only in... almost entire modern philosophy, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, but even Lacan, at least the early Lacan, this idea that man is a sick nature, derailed nature. Nature is already in itself sick, confused. Again, there is no…

…way I see the link, and in a new book, short book, that will be out now soon with Granta Books, How to Read Lacan, I went into this through reading of Dostoevsky, Bobok, which is a wonderful short story about a guy who witnesses at a graveyard the…

…punchline, like in three lines. So if I give you a punchline about myself, the true heart of my love is Kant-Hegel's philosophy. Lacan enters for me as the one through whom one can read German idealists. That's how I am a Lacanian. I never... I never…

…All other things come second. And of course this is a reading which is very much against the grain, in the sense that usually Lacan is perceived as the one who is very much anti-German idealist and so on and so on. Again, if you want my thesis in…

…by this impossible gaze. Again, which then is this gaze? Here I would like to make a brief reference to Lacanian theory. Lacan defined, redefined. The Freudian tribe, das tribe, drive, as according to Lacan, what Freud calls das tribe, is reflexive. It is…

…would like to make a brief reference to Lacanian theory. Lacan defined, redefined. The Freudian tribe, das tribe, drive, as according to Lacan, what Freud calls das tribe, is reflexive. It is an attitude of, in French, it goes, se faire something. Like for…

…according to Lacan, what Freud calls das tribe, is reflexive. It is an attitude of, in French, it goes, se faire something. Like for Lacan, visual drive, shall trip. It's not, I want to see. I want to see is desire, to see. But drive, das tribe, is…

…tribe, is reflexive. Visual drive means not I want to see, but it's the drive to make myself see. I claim that Lacan thereby points towards a kind of elementary theatricality of the human condition. Our fundamental striving is not to observe, but to be…

…look at the stage. So again, I think that our primordial position is, I'm doing it for the gaze. Which is why, for Lacan, the psychoanalytic notion of fantasy is not so much the scene itself, which you fantasize. The fantasy at its most radical is the…

…is just a game... There I, as it were, bring out my, whatever this means, true self. This is, I think, what Jacques Lacan meant when he said that the truth has the structure of a fiction. Sometimes the only way to articulate some traumatic truth is…

…went on. And here, you should analyze, I'm following here the English cognitivist who is very much against psychoanalysis, especially against Lacan, Richard Moldby, he is called. But I think he is a very good theoretician. And with all honesty, he did a…

…of course, the split we have here is the one between symbolic law Ego ideal, morality, all the rules are respected, and what Lacan calls super ego, the obscene agency of excessive enjoyment. It is, again, at the same time, you can watch it in a naive…

…bit out of fashion of post-structuralism. As characterizing French thought after the first big wave of structuralism, Lévi-Strauss, Althusser, Lacan, the idea is that then we get post-structuralism. Derrida and so on. Okay, there is one mystery. Nobody in…

…get in an ordinary movie with actors, and so on, and so on. You know, this logic is what I'm aiming at, that what Lacan calls the real, the traumatic core that we are afraid to sustain. Fantasy is closer to the real than reality. In the opposition…

…moment you have some homosexual innuendos or whatever, multiple perverse sexuality, that it's subversive and so on. No, I agree with Lacan. I think that perversion, but I don't think homosexuality is a perversion. I think that perversion is socially a very…

…will be that gaze. But even when we are that gaze, I claim, the situation is always more complex. For example, Jacques Lacan, in his seminar on ethics of psychoanalysis, gives a wonderful cynical theory of the Greek chorus. He says, what's the function of…

…the face. End of quote. Now I think, that's my first step towards criticism, that one should read what Jacques Lacan characterized as the circular self-referential structure of the symbolic order. You know how, ultimately, in language science points to other…

…While the apparently less strong proposition, there is at least one man who exists, or some men exist, implies their existence. Lacan draws from this the conclusion that we pass from universal proposition, which only defines the content of a notion, to…

…Love emerges out of the universal indifference. While hatred emerges out of universal love. In short, we are dealing here with what Lacan called the formulas of sexuation. I do not love you all is the only foundation of there is somebody, there is nobody…

…notion of the real. So... This may appear boring, but we have to go again through the triad, imaginary, symbolic, real. Because when Lacan defines this triad as the triad of a not, not, It means that they are literally interwoven, in the sense that the…

…scientific formulas, like quantum physics. Why is this real? For a simple reason. The minimum definition of the real for Lacan is that which resists symbolization, inclusion into our consciousness. universe of meaning. And isn't it that precisely what happens,…

…It's just that you can approach it either from the leftist or from the rightist point of view. And, incidentally, for Lacan... It's exactly in the same way that also sexual difference functions. Sexual difference is not a difference between the two species…

…too rational masculine, let's put more accent on the feminine emotional side, whatever. No, it's more radical. It's as if, as Lacan puts it, The binary signifier is primordially repressed, which means the second element is always missing and this lack of…

…Culture is already symbolic law, symbolic regulation. But The conclusion to be drawn from Kant and consequently from Freud and Lacan is that what cultural symbolic prohibitions try to regulate, to master, to dominate, to domesticate, whatever you want, is not…

…a false space of freedom. I'm referring here, of course, implicitly to Lacan's famous reversal of the Dostoevsky motto. According to Lacan, it is not that if God doesn't exist, everything is permitted, but if God doesn't exist, everything is prohibited. This…

…some of you know that in his seminar 17, Lambert de la Psychoanalyse, the other side, the obverse of psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan from 69, 1969, 70, Jacques Lacan developed the so-called matrix scheme of four discourses. I want to proceed simply in two…

…his seminar 17, Lambert de la Psychoanalyse, the other side, the obverse of psychoanalysis, Jacques Lacan from 69, 1969, 70, Jacques Lacan developed the so-called matrix scheme of four discourses. I want to proceed simply in two steps. First, to explain in…

…half, which will be a little bit more boring than maybe some of you expect. So, Lambert de la Psychanalyse, this seminar of Lacan, this is the first thing to remember. It's Lacan's response to the events of 68. The premise of this seminar is best…

…do not walk on the streets. The idea being structuralist abstract schemes now the real thing, nothing to do. I think that Lacan said this first in a meeting of the French Society of Philosophy. A propos, where Michel Foucault presented a talk, What is…

…of the French Society of Philosophy. A propos, where Michel Foucault presented a talk, What is Autor?, and in a discussion, Lacan emphatically claimed that if... there is anything that the events of 68 prove is that precisely structures, in the so-called…

…for what occurred in 68, for this kind of outburst in terms of the structural changes, permutations, and so on, and so on. For Lacan, the key to these events, and I don't even agree with Lacan's account of it, but his interest is focused on, as I…

…said, on the pastics. This is the key pastics. From discourse of the masters to the discourse of university, which is why for Lacan it is crucial for him. No wonder that the revolt of 68 was located As such, for Lacan, this revolt only signaled the…

…which is why for Lacan it is crucial for him. No wonder that the revolt of 68 was located As such, for Lacan, this revolt only signaled the shift to new forms of domination in which the scientific discourse legitimizes new relations of domination. I…

…I think that Lacan's underlying premise here is, this is at least one aspect of it, and here I'm critical of Lacan, skeptic conservative. His diagnosis, you know, underlying this is an attitude which I oppose very much, this enlightened conservative attitude…

…revolutionary exposure is good, but the day after domination turns in a new, maybe even more oppressive form. This diagnosis of Lacan is best captured by his famous retort to the student revolutionaries, where he says, as hysterics, you are asking for, you…

…point. of this so-called matrix of the four discourses is Lacan's well-known so-called definition. I say so-called not to criticize Lacan because it's obviously circular in the sense of that the term to be defined is, this is conscious, Lacan's paradox…

…represents the subject for another signifier. So how are we to read this obviously circular definition? I'm sorry for those of you who know Lacan. I'm sure at least some of you, at least those of you, I will not say who, but whose name begins with A…

…moment it is produced, since it is inscribed into the big other, you know, it's put into circulation. So, based on this, Lacan produced the following theme. A subject is represented by a signifier, the one which is your standing within the field of,…

…This representation, signifying symbolic representation, always structurally space and This failure, as it were, is embodied in what Lacan calls l'object-etat, the object-cause of desire, precisely that which remains, the leftover, the excess, that which is not…

…the excess, that which is not caught in the logic of symbolic representation. Now, this is the starting point, that what Lacan does is to further elaborate this scheme. In what terms? First, Lacan... calls these four places, this agent, truth, other,…

…representation. Now, this is the starting point, that what Lacan does is to further elaborate this scheme. In what terms? First, Lacan... calls these four places, this agent, truth, other, production. That is to say, the agent To put it in very simple…

…analyze, I don't know, the last speech by George Bush, it sounds much deeper if you say the discourse of George Bush, no? Lacan is not responsible for this, for For him, discourse means social link. It's the minimal scheme of social link. So, again, it's…

…level of appearances, not apparent, sorry, it's to feel a distinction. And then, so, after doing, after establishing this scheme, Lacan does the following. His idea is then that this is, of course, the elementary operation, the zero-level discourse, as it…

…the zero-level discourse, as it were, the first gesture. Simply, a signifier represents you, there is a remainder. And then, for Lacan, there are three variations of these three possible ways to, as it were, react to the deadlock of this discourse. These…

…the way I put it now. So let's go step by step. First, the master's discourse. The discourse of the master is, for Lacan, the basic one. It provides, as it were, the basic matrix. As already said, a subject is represented by the signifier for another…

…matrix. As already said, a subject is represented by the signifier for another signifier, or for the chain of the signifiers. Lacan calls S1 the one. The master signifier S2 is not simply another signifier, but rather the chain, the... of signifiers, he…

…masters' gesture. And then we have, as already said, since this symbolic representation structurally fails, the remainder, the object, what Lacan calls l'objectit a, the object small a. Here already we find the first tension. Usually, incidentally, why is this…

…or whatever tries to be, tries to organize the field of knowledge. It fails. And this, you should also remember, this is for Lacan also this confrontation or coupling of the subject with object, in the sense of object cause of desire, is for Lacan also…

…for Lacan also this confrontation or coupling of the subject with object, in the sense of object cause of desire, is for Lacan also the formula of fantasy. So, the point is here very convincing and simple for Lacan. Let's put it in extremely ridiculous…

…object cause of desire, is for Lacan also the formula of fantasy. So, the point is here very convincing and simple for Lacan. Let's put it in extremely ridiculous and simplified terms. You make a statement, produce the one for the field of knowledge. You…

…ridiculous and simplified terms. You make a statement, produce the one for the field of knowledge. You say something. But for Lacan, there is always a gap between... What you say and what Lacan calls the position of enunciation. What you wanted to…

…one for the field of knowledge. You say something. But for Lacan, there is always a gap between... What you say and what Lacan calls the position of enunciation. What you wanted to say by saying this. For Lacan, the most elementary gap of meaning is…

…a gap between... What you say and what Lacan calls the position of enunciation. What you wanted to say by saying this. For Lacan, the most elementary gap of meaning is best encapsulated in this question, okay, you are telling me this, but why are you…

…Jewish plot and so on and so on. So again, fantasy fills in for, or if you want, provides an answer to this primordial, as Lacan puts it, referring to terms of an old novel where the words are in Italian, to this cowboy. What do you want? We can…

…is inherently pathological. Pathological in the sense of being always linked to contingent worldly empirical object. There is no, as Lacan puts it, there is no pure faculty of desiring. Desiring is as such pathological. But for Lacan, psychoanalysis precisely…

…object. There is no, as Lacan puts it, there is no pure faculty of desiring. Desiring is as such pathological. But for Lacan, psychoanalysis precisely is a kind of critique of pure desire. That is to say, for Lacan, there is a pure, non-pathological, a…

…pathological. But for Lacan, psychoanalysis precisely is a kind of critique of pure desire. That is to say, for Lacan, there is a pure, non-pathological, a priori, proto-transcendental object-cause of desire. And this precisely is the object Smolensk, which…

…What do we mean by this? Let me first give you the first example. Let's say that this is the phallic, as Lacan sometimes put it, masculine signifier. For Lacan, when he says woman doesn't exist, he precisely means that there is no... feminine counterpoint…

…give you the first example. Let's say that this is the phallic, as Lacan sometimes put it, masculine signifier. For Lacan, when he says woman doesn't exist, he precisely means that there is no... feminine counterpoint to the masculine phallic signifier,…

…tell you only is that this standard accusation then, you know, so fashionable in so-called postmodern deconstructionism of binary logic, Lacan, no, Lacan I think is the most radical undermining of binary logic. For Lacan, what he calls primordial repression,…