Lectures on Lacan
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L'Étourdit -- Lecture 7 -- Recollection
ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN:
Clear and coherent readings of Jacques Lacan’s work are rare. Rarer still are those which make his seminars and writings accessible to non-specialized audiences. Which is why I’ve designed Lectures on Lacan! If you’re looking for close, concise, and widely accessible readings of key texts in Lacanian Psychoanalysis, this is is the channel for you.
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ABOUT PROF. DR. SAMUEL MCCORMICK:
Samuel McCormick, Ph.D., is an award-winning teacher and scholar. He lectures widely on Lacanian psychoanalysis, is Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, and was recently appointed EURIAS & Marie-Curie Research Fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark.
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L'Étourdit -- Lecture 6 -- The Analytic Sense
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ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear and coherent readings of Jacques Lacan’s work are rare. Rarer still are those which make his seminars and writings accessible to non-specialized audiences. Which is why I’ve designed Lectures on Lacan! If you’re looking for close, concise, and widely accessible readings of key texts in Lacanian Psychoanalysis, this is is the channel for you. REGISTER FOR OUR NEXT ...
L'Étourdit -- Lecture 5 -- Heterossexuated Multiverse
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ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear and coherent readings of Jacques Lacan’s work are rare. Rarer still are those which make his seminars and writings accessible to non-specialized audiences. Which is why I’ve designed Lectures on Lacan! If you’re looking for close, concise, and widely accessible readings of key texts in Lacanian Psychoanalysis, this is is the channel for you. REGISTER FOR OUR NEXT ...
L'Étourdit -- Lecture 4 -- Thommosexuated Universe
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ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear and coherent readings of Jacques Lacan’s work are rare. Rarer still are those which make his seminars and writings accessible to non-specialized audiences. Which is why I’ve designed Lectures on Lacan! If you’re looking for close, concise, and widely accessible readings of key texts in Lacanian Psychoanalysis, this is is the channel for you. REGISTER FOR OUR NEXT ...
Seminar XX -- Encore -- Ch7b -- Object Little a ≠ Signifier of the Barred Other -- excerpt
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Here’s an excerpt from the latest lecture in our series on Seminar XX, just to give you sense of where things stand at this point, and where I think we’re headed from here. We’ll be unpacking all of this, and quite a bit more, in just a few hours, at our next live online discussion, in case you want to join in the fun. Link below to learn more and make it so! ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear and ...
L'Étourdit -- Lecture 3 -- Nyania
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ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear and coherent readings of Jacques Lacan’s work are rare. Rarer still are those which make his seminars and writings accessible to non-specialized audiences. Which is why I’ve designed Lectures on Lacan! If you’re looking for close, concise, and widely accessible readings of key texts in Lacanian Psychoanalysis, this is is the channel for you. REGISTER FOR OUR NEXT ...
L'Étourdit -- Lecture 2 -- The Fifth Sense
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ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear and coherent readings of Jacques Lacan’s work are rare. Rarer still are those which make his seminars and writings accessible to non-specialized audiences. Which is why I’ve designed Lectures on Lacan! If you’re looking for close, concise, and widely accessible readings of key texts in Lacanian Psychoanalysis, this is is the channel for you. REGISTER FOR OUR NEXT ...
L'Étourdit -- Lecture 1 -- That One Say
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ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear and coherent readings of Jacques Lacan’s work are rare. Rarer still are those which make his seminars and writings accessible to non-specialized audiences. Which is why I’ve designed Lectures on Lacan! If you’re looking for close, concise, and widely accessible readings of key texts in Lacanian Psychoanalysis, this is is the channel for you. REGISTER FOR OUR NEXT ...
Seminar XX -- Lecture 1 -- Excerpt 5
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Here's an excerpt from the opening lecture in our new series on Seminar XX, just give you a sense of how we're setting things up but also in anticipation of more strange talk on September 6th, in our first live discussion of the series. Link below to learn more and join the group! open.substack.com/pub/lecturesonlacan/p/join-our-new-series-on-seminar-xx?r=1igvd5& ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear ...
Seminar XX -- Lecture 1 -- Excerpt 4
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Here's an excerpt from the opening lecture in our new series on Seminar XX, just give you a sense of how we're setting things up but also in anticipation of more strange talk on September 6th, in our first live discussion of the series. Link below to learn more and join the group! open.substack.com/pub/lecturesonlacan/p/join-our-new-series-on-seminar-xx?r=1igvd5& ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear ...
Seminar XX -- Lecture 1 -- Excerpt 3
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Here's an excerpt from the opening lecture in our new series on Seminar XX, just give you a sense of how we're setting things up but also in anticipation of more strange talk on September 6th, in our first live discussion of the series. Link below to learn more and join the group! open.substack.com/pub/lecturesonlacan/p/join-our-new-series-on-seminar-xx?r=1igvd5& ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear ...
Seminar XX -- Lecture 1 -- Excerpt 2
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Here's an excerpt from the opening lecture in our new series on Seminar XX, just give you a sense of how we're setting things up but also in anticipation of more strange talk on September 6th, in our first live discussion of the series. Link below to learn more and join the group! open.substack.com/pub/lecturesonlacan/p/join-our-new-series-on-seminar-xx?r=1igvd5& ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear ...
Seminar XX -- Lecture 1 -- Excerpt 1
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Here's an excerpt from the opening lecture in our new series on Seminar XX, just give you a sense of how we're setting things up but also in anticipation of more strange talk on September 6th, in our first live discussion of the series. Link below to learn more and join the group! open.substack.com/pub/lecturesonlacan/p/join-our-new-series-on-seminar-xx?r=1igvd5& ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear ...
Seminar XIXb -- . . . Or Worse -- Ch15-16+Report -- Part 2 -- abject little a
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ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear and coherent readings of Jacques Lacan’s work are rare. Rarer still are those which make his seminars and writings accessible to non-specialized audiences. Which is why I’ve designed Lectures on Lacan! If you’re looking for close, concise, and widely accessible readings of key texts in Lacanian Psychoanalysis, this is is the channel for you. REGISTER FOR OUR NEXT ...
Seminar XIXb -- . . . Or Worse -- Ch15-16+Report -- Part 1 -- Silhouettes
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ABOUT LECTURES ON LACAN: Clear and coherent readings of Jacques Lacan’s work are rare. Rarer still are those which make his seminars and writings accessible to non-specialized audiences. Which is why I’ve designed Lectures on Lacan! If you’re looking for close, concise, and widely accessible readings of key texts in Lacanian Psychoanalysis, this is is the channel for you. REGISTER FOR OUR NEXT ...
Seminar XIXb -- . . . Or Worse -- Ch13-14 -- Worse, Better, Best
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Seminar XIXb . . . Or Worse Ch13-14 Worse, Better, Best
Seminar XIXb -- . . . Or Worse -- Ch11-12b -- Nadology
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Seminar XIXb . . . Or Worse Ch11-12b Nadology
Seminar XIXb -- . . . Or Worse -- Ch11-12a -- "There is Oneness, and I am It"
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Seminar XIXb . . . Or Worse Ch11-12a "There is Oneness, and I am It"
Seminar XIXb -- . . . Or Worse -- Ch9-10 -- A Bag with a Hole in It
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Seminar XIXb . . . Or Worse Ch9-10 A Bag with a Hole in It
Seminar XIXb -- . . . Or Worse -- Ch7-8 -- Presence, Absence, Center
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Seminar XIXb . . . Or Worse Ch7-8 Presence, Absence, Center
Seminar XIX -- . . . Or Worse -- Ch5-6 -- This Isn't It
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Seminar XIX . . . Or Worse Ch5-6 This Isn't It
Seminar XIXb -- . . . Or Worse -- Ch4 -- Feminine Impotentiality & Masculine Inexistence
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Seminar XIXb . . . Or Worse Ch4 Feminine Impotentiality & Masculine Inexistence
Seminar XIXb -- . . . Or Worse -- Ch3b -- Masculine & Feminine Modalities
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Seminar XIXb . . . Or Worse Ch3b Masculine & Feminine Modalities
Seminar XIXb -- . . . Or Worse -- Ch3a -- Mathemes & Modal Logic
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Seminar XIXb . . . Or Worse Ch3a Mathemes & Modal Logic
Seminar XIXb -- . . . Or Worse -- Ch1-2 -- Letters & Numbers
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Seminar XIXb . . . Or Worse Ch1-2 Letters & Numbers
Seminar XIXa -- The Psychoanalyst's Knowledge -- Ch3b -- Echoes
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Seminar XIXa The Psychoanalyst's Knowledge Ch3b Echoes
Seminar XIXa -- The Psychoanalyst's Knowledge -- Ch3a -- Mathematico-Logic
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Seminar XIXa The Psychoanalyst's Knowledge Ch3a Mathematico-Logic
Seminar XIXa -- The Psychoanalyst's Knowledge -- Ch2 -- Ciphers & Cipherings of Incomprehension
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Seminar XIXa The Psychoanalyst's Knowledge Ch2 Ciphers & Cipherings of Incomprehension
Seminar XIXa -- The Psychoanalyst's Knowledge -- Ch1 -- Learned Ignorance
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Seminar XIXa The Psychoanalyst's Knowledge Ch1 Learned Ignorance
Seminar XVIII -- On a Discourse That Might Not Be a Semblance -- Chs9-10 -- Hysterics at High Tide
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Seminar XVIII On a Discourse That Might Not Be a Semblance Chs9-10 Hysterics at High Tide

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @julian-wm2dl
    @julian-wm2dl День тому

    but lebron james had no father(parental function) but he made it tho, keanu got no father as well he made it in life this dude lacan be so mad negative tho

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 3 години тому

      The paternal function comes in many forms, not just in biological fathers. These folks, like so many others, almost certainly found theirs elsewhere.

  • @h.hholmes.492
    @h.hholmes.492 2 дні тому

    1:02:07 yeah i feel you, how do you even know that, have you been around block or in any block, thats some real hood shit

  • @h.hholmes.492
    @h.hholmes.492 2 дні тому

    4:59 damnn

  • @h.hholmes.492
    @h.hholmes.492 2 дні тому

    4:22 type shii

  • @h.hholmes.492
    @h.hholmes.492 2 дні тому

    bro this teacher is amazing

  • @itsvanic8063
    @itsvanic8063 14 днів тому

    25:47 Hey man You stole my Little (a), Give me back my Little (a) Mofu*er XDDDD

  • @itsvanic8063
    @itsvanic8063 15 днів тому

    Hi, is " thank you " enough for the effort you always do? if yes, then thank you so much Dr.

  • @aurora-o5b4m
    @aurora-o5b4m 15 днів тому

    thanks ❤

  • @joethelionjoethelion
    @joethelionjoethelion 20 днів тому

    Hello Sam and happy Thanksgiving. I am grateful for you and your beautiful presentations on psychoanalysis. I’m going to start back here again at this lecture having followed through five or six lectures forward. I think the repetition and your idea of say it again say it better is helpful. There is so much to assimilate and I was wondering, if you have some sense of an approach in regards to this. I was wondering your opinion if you think it’s best that I just move forward as I’m six lectures ahead or start back here and reintegrate the information? Thanks and happy Thanksgiving.

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 19 днів тому

      If you started at the end of this series on seminar 10, and are really vibing on the materials, then starting at the beginning of the series would make sense. There’s also a recursive structure to all the series, though, such that some of the key points in our series on seminar 10 reappear in our series on seminar 11, and so on. Just a function of working with Lacan’s thought, which is loopy and organic like that!

    • @joethelionjoethelion
      @joethelionjoethelion 19 днів тому

      @ I love what you’re doing here, man! Keep up the good work…

  • @joethelionjoethelion
    @joethelionjoethelion 24 дні тому

    There are so many brilliant things in this seminar and one in particular was that and I’m paraphrasing “when you’re thinking you’re not thinking and when you’re not thinking you’re thinking “that was so brilliant! If you have anything to add here, even a sentence or two that would be great also! I am loving your seminars… Thank you

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 24 дні тому

      Glad you’re enjoying these lectures! And that riff in particular. It’s a stone-cold piece of Lacan, from his essay on the agency of the letter. Check it out! 🤘🏽

    • @joethelionjoethelion
      @joethelionjoethelion 24 дні тому

      @@lecturesonlacan thanks for your clear and immediate response! I have recently purchased various books on psychoanalytic theory, and it is not absolutely clear to me what book you are utilizing in this lecture series. You may have mentioned it early on. Could you clarify?

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 23 дні тому

      The text for this series, and all our other series, is accessible at the Lectures on Lacan archive: open.substack.com/pub/lecturesonlacan/p/lectures-on-lacan-archive?r=1igvd5&

  • @KKing-v8q
    @KKing-v8q 27 днів тому

    That was amazingly accurate

  • @borisvalvoka6975
    @borisvalvoka6975 28 днів тому

    Can't believe this is free to watch. Thanks Sam! 🏅

  • @jonathangenkin3357
    @jonathangenkin3357 Місяць тому

    I return to this lecture over and over again finding the kernal i have always looked for.

  • @koenarno6442
    @koenarno6442 Місяць тому

    Since hearing that last part, I can identify more and more with Tony Soprano.

  • @koenarno6442
    @koenarno6442 Місяць тому

    Thanks so much for this!

  • @shmulikmi
    @shmulikmi Місяць тому

    Excelent! As always. Unique, Provocative, Scholary, Highly "Addictive" and thought provoking.

  • @nityaprakash8871
    @nityaprakash8871 Місяць тому

    Thank you Professor. I was completely hooked on to it.

  • @KKing-v8q
    @KKing-v8q Місяць тому

    Zizek is focusing on using lacan for an analysis of the subject in relation to economy(marx in nature). Which is focused on an ideological analysis of individual subjects in society.

  • @katiemiaana
    @katiemiaana Місяць тому

    I have to disagree that it doesn’t have to be a mummy. I find it strange that we deny the universal reality of what babies came out of. Really bizarre tbh this reluctance of men to face this.

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan Місяць тому

      Everybody wants to be the mummy, I guess!

  • @juliasmith4708
    @juliasmith4708 Місяць тому

    This gets me thinking about what are the contingencies between the perverse pleasure of speaking the impossible, and the idea of having "parrhesia" as an ideal possibility for speaking (Greek for candid / free speech).

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan Місяць тому

      Good question. The difference, it seems to me, is between the real and the true. Whether the former is perverse, as you suggest, that’s another matter! Let’s discuss at our next get together!

  • @zazenshin1
    @zazenshin1 Місяць тому

    Sam how easy is to assess if someone with or without penis is "man" or "woman"? Could a feminist be a "man"?

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan Місяць тому

      A masculine feminist -- what a wild idea. Yes, please! Would love to see how that unfolds. As for your first question -- about assessment -- the key variable, it seems to me, is how they enjoy. Masculine and feminine subjects, regardless of anatomy, enjoy a certain, differential ways. Laying out these ways is what Lacan started to do in S18, continued to do (especially for masculinity) in S19, and caps off (especially for femininity) in S20.

  • @MyWritingJourney9
    @MyWritingJourney9 2 місяці тому

    Many thanks to you for making this videos!!

  • @nigelharvey640
    @nigelharvey640 2 місяці тому

    So the Mythic Exception Man is like the Ultimate Unary Father. Like a Super Paternal Function. He has the Phallus and is uncastratable But every other man is part of this All Men group because they are all subject to Castration (Separation from the Phallus). They are unable to please the Maternal Function bc the Mythical Man, who CAN do it exist. And I guess while not directly saying it, it is also implied that All the Women belong to him, really. And All Men are subject to the social order of castration so long as this mythical man exist. You know, this sounds a lot like hierarchy as well. It’s just that the Mythical Exception man sits on top of it, unseen, but only heard of as a rumor. A rumor which explains to All Men why they are not able to satisfy all women (are castrated)

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 2 місяці тому

      Way to think this through. I especially like where your summary ends.

  • @nigelharvey640
    @nigelharvey640 2 місяці тому

    I’m new to lacan so I’m still trying to wrap my head around this stuff. But I’m looking through the lectures and bouncing around as I hear references to other lectures. I saw an earlier lecture the idea that: - neurotics -> Calm No castration - perverts -> Unstable No! Castration - Psychotic -> Rejected Castration In this case, wouldn’t the Psychotic be the Uncastrated Man? “The Uncut Daddy.” If so, That would be possible. And it also matches your condition because the psychotic is not a “man” in a neurotic sense. He is he exception & operates as such. The only issue is that to be psychotic ≠ get all the women. But, I can’t necessarily say that isn’t the case either. Is it not possible that someone (maybe not a “Man” in the castrated sense) who had no social constraints or sense of obligation under the castration, could just do what they wanted if they were smart enough to just subvert everyone’s attempts to castrate them (and were psychotic)? I’m thinking like a Ghangas Khan type character. I guess you could say he is still castrated but this highlights my confusion about the psychotic. what do you think about this line of thinking? And Is there any lecture where you talk more about the psychotic? Secondly, with the Feminine Jouissance, it seemed like it switched from talking about “number of women” to “amount of enjoyment” when you were describing the ‘Not All Women are Castrated’. What was the purpose of that change? I would think that this statement would be about women’s perception of themselves, collectively, as an undefined ocean of exceptions when it comes to Jouissance. Like how men look and expect castration in some form or another amongst all of themselves, women would look around and see “possibly Not Castrated” in some form or another among, “not all” of them. There is this tone of not knowing who amongst them is free from their castration and who isn’t because of the nature of the “Not All”. But when it is switched to “amount of Jouissance”, it’s like changing the units of the convo. Are all Men 100% castrated in this case? It wouldn’t seem that would be true bc while All Men are slaves in some form, there are Masters in the form of bosses, who experience the Jouissance of owning another’s body (which is another idea I heard you talk about in another lecture). So I would think, if it was by “amount” it would be >= 1% of Men are castrated. But that would mean there is a large spread of “amount” of castration happening. In some sense the “All” is talking about collectives. The “Exist” is talking about Individual. And my impression is that men see their collective as all subject to castration - as in they have certainty. However, women see their collective in a Not All, uncertainty about if they are or are not castrated. But on the individual level, men fantasize in and amongst themselves about the Existence of the Uncastrated man & are uncertain of his existence, like a mythical character. Women, instead, on an individual level have certainty and a knowing that there is no woman who has not experienced the castration, even though there is this suspicion of on the collective level that not all women are castrated. And this does deeply line up to me. There is an implied difference in feminine & masculine intimacy where the former commiserates on the “secret” that they too are castrated, while the latter commiserates on the “secret” that they might not be castrated.

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 21 день тому

      Good thinking here - way to zero in and stay focused. The psychotic is not the mythical father of the primal hoard realized, though the former’s rejection of castration might make it seem as much, at least on surface. And I like your riff on “secrecy” at the end. Smart!

  • @zazenshin1
    @zazenshin1 2 місяці тому

    Thank you Sam. Are the complete lectures going to be available at some point?

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 2 місяці тому

      Yes, eventually. Looking forward! In the meantime, if you want to access all the lectures to date, and all the lectures to come in the next few weeks, you can register for the series.

  • @joethelionjoethelion
    @joethelionjoethelion 2 місяці тому

    Hello Samuel, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time with your lectures and I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. It’s absolutely wonderful! I have a quick question about language/voice, my question is how specifically we are influenced by being vulnerable in those first couple years of life as the subject of the parents Language and idioms, How much does that affect our ability to articulate our desire and needs as adult specifically utilizing voice in language ? Thank you.

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 2 місяці тому

      Humans are born to chatter, and infants - by definition pre-speech - are the best at it! We learn how to talk from others, especially those primary caregivers. And I think much of what and how we desire begins to come into focus in those early years as well.

    • @joethelionjoethelion
      @joethelionjoethelion 2 місяці тому

      @@lecturesonlacan very good! It is good to know that I am on track with this early foundational aspect of language/voice and desire. Thank you, Samuel!

  • @chrisparsons3545
    @chrisparsons3545 2 місяці тому

    Super interesting! Nyania ⇒ Losslack ⇒ Barred A ◇ φ (a, a', a'', a'''....) : a / -φ ◇ A. For all the logic of ∀x and ∃x it does seem as if the groundwork was already present to an extent in his earlier writing about transference. Maybe veiled by the concept of A, but later exposed through the focus on ones and the analyst discourse. In general, the obsessional belief in being more one than others, and the hysteric belief in the complete oneness of others seems a bit like proto-nyania if you ask me! Maybe it's not a direct transformation, but add an explanation of modes of jouissance and it's perhaps not far from a continuation.

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 2 місяці тому

      I think you're right about the analytic discourse: it's a major catalyst for Lacan's thought in the late-1960s / early-1970s. His theories of masculine and feminine jouissance are related, but, on my reading, owe more of their development to his set-theoretical work on the Other, and his subsequent unfurling of the fact that there's no Other of the Other. Hence, that big barred Other of his -- by which, of course, I mean hers!

  • @frederickanderson1860
    @frederickanderson1860 2 місяці тому

    We be dead if we did not desire anything. We end up denying ourselves.

  • @Gulden-Demirer
    @Gulden-Demirer 2 місяці тому

    Bonjour, il n'y a pas d'option turque dans les sous-titres, je ne peux donc pas regarder vos vidéos lorsque je vais sur UA-cam depuis mon téléphone. Pouvez-vous ajouter le turc à l'option de langue ?

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 2 місяці тому

      Merci pour ton message! J'aimerais pouvoir t'aider, mais je ne sais pas comment ajouter des sous-titres en turc, ni même si c'est une option. :-/

    • @Gulden-Demirer
      @Gulden-Demirer 2 місяці тому

      @@lecturesonlacan Merci pour votre réponse 🙏 J'ai trouvé un moyen en installant Google Chrome et en accédant au web depuis un mobile Il s'ouvre directement sur l'ordinateur, mais c'était difficile sur mobile et j'ai trouvé un moyen car j'adore regarder vos vidéos.

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 2 місяці тому

      @@Gulden-Demirer Great solution!

  • @mischievouseurasianist8671
    @mischievouseurasianist8671 2 місяці тому

    Brilliant

  • @afs4185
    @afs4185 2 місяці тому

    Thanks to Lacanonline post about new books and things to check out i learned of your lecture series'. This set on Sem 19,>> really excellent. Ill keep this real brief. Thank you

  • @chrisparsons3545
    @chrisparsons3545 2 місяці тому

    Great lecture. Might I suggest a very minor possible amendment to your annotated diagram of the analyst's discourse. Is it possible that non-sense is a partial translation from the French? What I had in mind was to restate the labelling of symptomatic expression as 'no-sense' rather than 'non-sense'. In other words to clarify that the 'no' ex-sists in relation to the symptomatic expression in a similar way as the impossible real ex-sists in relation to the truth. This might not be it, but it seems relevant to how we go from a symbolic 'no' through the unconscious which conditions the imaginary of symptomatic speech, all to settle on the absent real and allusions of truth reflected back towards the analysand. That said, every time I think I've got it, something else slips away!

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 2 місяці тому

      Way to keep thinking this one through! My use of “nonsense” is designed to correspond dialectically with “sense,” as in “to make sense of.” This follows Alain Badiou’s usage. But I wouldn’t say that nonsensical symptomatic statements are absent, ex-sistent, real, or the like. Absence, in my view, is reserved for unconscious truth. And ex-sistence qua ab-sex-sense is reserved for the real. With each, as you know, occupying a different place in the analytic discourse. So long as “no-sense” comports with all of this, I’m down!

    • @chrisparsons3545
      @chrisparsons3545 2 місяці тому

      @@lecturesonlacan That really does comport with my experience of learning about Lacan! In that his work always causes reflections on prior concepts you think you already grasp. I love that the smallest of details can provoke something of a re-appraisal or re-positioning in this sense. I guess that's the lack of a metalanguage in action. I completely agree with regard to 'sense', and the suggestion just related to the analysand perhaps making sense of the 'no' that constitutes their unconscious and its relation with surplus-jouissance and symptom. Appreciating that this discourse is focused on the real, as the big sister of truth, it made me wonder whether the symbolic also has a role in shaping the delta of impotence. Symbolic failure perhaps shaping the real. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself (again!) but it just seemed to make some sense to see analytic discourse as transforming symptom into 'no'-sense as a symbolic outcome, changing the shape of the real in the process. I'm sure something else might 'pop' as we go through L'Etourdit! Thanks for the response and for also making me think so hard in these lectures! Chris.

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 2 місяці тому

      @chrisparsons3545 great thought! The no-sense of the symptom AND the sensei known as the real as BOTH effects of the symbolic. Interesting!

    • @chrisparsons3545
      @chrisparsons3545 2 місяці тому

      @@lecturesonlacan Thanks! I wouldn't want to totalise that claim, but do get the feeling that there are layers to the discourse itself, in addition to the dialectic between analyst/analysand. I just figured that we have examples of semblance (e.g. parts of the discourse that generate a response of 'That's not it') and also the real that commands the truth of the unconscious. The symbolic has yet to make an appearance, other than as the medium for discourse - so I thought it must also be implicit within the matheme somehow. In the absence of the big-O, I was trying to work out how this register features. It seems as if Product / Surplus-Jouissance and Truth represent the affective outcomes from discourse not present in Lacan's earlier symbolic phase that relied on the big-O e.g. L-schema. The analyst's discourse seems to disambiguate quite a lot, formalising the process in much greater depth. I guess that it is focused both on what absolutely can't ever be symbolised (i.e. real) relative to what can be symbolised but has not (i.e. the cause of an individualised symbolic debt e.g. repression/foreclosure). To the analysand all of this might be experienced as impasse in the face of unhelpful surplus-jouissance, however the analyst then encourages a working through of that symbolic debt as symptom. It might seem a bit crazy that discussion about one letter might be slightly hystericizing, but isn't that also what's so great about learning Lacan?

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 2 місяці тому

      @@chrisparsons3545 I really like how you put the matter in your last comment: "The analyst's discourse seems to disambiguate quite a lot, formalising the process in much greater depth. I guess that it is focused both on what absolutely can't ever be symbolised (i.e. real) relative to what can be symbolised but has not (i.e. the cause of an individualised symbolic debt e.g. repression/foreclosure)." That's a great way to understand what Lacan's doing with the Real as distinct from the unconscious in the early-1970s! My only addition would be the one Lacan increasingly stresses after L'Étourdit: between the Real and the part of the unconscious that's knowable (via psychoanalysis) is the part of the unconscious that remains unknowable (even via psychoanalysis). What, exactly, is the relationship between the Real and the unknowable unconscious? Some have even suggested that, as Lacan's later thought develops, they merge into each other, yielding notions like Soler's "real unconscious." Fascinating stuff!

  • @nicholasduron9827
    @nicholasduron9827 2 місяці тому

    Brilliant. Thank you SO much bc I’m only on lecture 2 and I was STRUG GUL IN G.

  • @1bionic1
    @1bionic1 2 місяці тому

    I think the kids’ screaming at around 14 minutes perfectly captures the analyst’s resistance to the-object-supposed-to-go!!! The horror of AMA, APA and IPA doctors and Nurse Ratchets of the world inflicting and inscribing their cookoo’s nests on us, where we “live”, in torn pieces and bleachy-plasticy-saturated veins, reflecting off the walls of the hallway in the children’s screams. Juxtaposed on your teaching of a teacher’s teaching, in conjunction with an audience whose “learning” includes the screams, it’s a fuc*ing work of art! ❤

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 2 місяці тому

      Well said! And lo! Those screaming kids. Tuche!

    • @1bionic1
      @1bionic1 2 місяці тому

      @@lecturesonlacanthose screams are precious. They are precious because, insofar as they are the product of the children’s encounters of each other’s bodies, they are, those screams, the discourse of the Real. Those muted screams are all of our screams. I remember them as if I was screaming yesterday. Jouissance at its purest, the soundtrack of this presentation!

  • @1bionic1
    @1bionic1 2 місяці тому

    Excellent, as usual! Please will you post another vid after you finish reading the complete essay?

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 2 місяці тому

      I will be posting new videos on a weekly basis, and correspondence with our podcast series on this essay. Wild stuff, so get ready!

  • @Konzzs
    @Konzzs 2 місяці тому

    Yooo, what happened to your nails? They're so black.

  • @zaum99
    @zaum99 2 місяці тому

    Your characterisation of the lethargic, depressive master reminds me of Oblomov, by Ivan Goncharov, the lethargic Russian nobleman unable to make any decisions.

  • @TheAptimn
    @TheAptimn 2 місяці тому

    perverts do not have anxiety??

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 2 місяці тому

      Interesting -- what makes you think that?

  • @KKing-v8q
    @KKing-v8q 3 місяці тому

    Hey so what about the fantasy of world peace? Or attempts at an ethical system? I think the unary trait has something to do with this. Fundamental fantasy n what not

  • @KKing-v8q
    @KKing-v8q 3 місяці тому

    Chronological time😮

  • @zazenshin1
    @zazenshin1 3 місяці тому

    Sam how is the truth value of a symptom being tested? What kind of logic is being used? Isn't logic being affected by the unconscious? Thank you so much for all this work. It is vey helpful and it generates questions.

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 3 місяці тому

      This is such a terrific question. One way to test the truth value of a symptom, I suspect, would be to monitor its patterned recurrence.

  • @MouhamedDoumer
    @MouhamedDoumer 3 місяці тому

    homunculus

  • @1bionic1
    @1bionic1 3 місяці тому

    Excellent! Thank you

  • @ossen5411
    @ossen5411 3 місяці тому

    Thanks!

  • @lorigulfnoldor2162
    @lorigulfnoldor2162 3 місяці тому

    Also, you helped me to connect logical paradoxes with the so-called "logic of not-all". Check this out: some people try to "disarm" the Liar Paradox by substituting two-truth-values logic with three-truth-values logic. But, in response, people have offered a new version - "This statement is not "true-and-only-true"", which seems to get us back to square one. However! We can either claim that "All statements are either_true_or_false, but there are statements that are NOT either_true_or_false (like the Liar's)". Or we can claim that "There are no statements that are NOT either_true_or_false,. but being true or false is not_all that can be said ragarding its truthity or falsity". From this, second, POV, we can claim that "this statement is not true" is, yes, true, but not_all is said about it by calling it true! ...if you get what I mean. This requires some (a lot) of the same meta that sarcasm or metaphors use.

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 3 місяці тому

      Yes! I see where you’re headed. Great use of the not-all here. Straight from Ch5 of S20: all about falseness and the conditional tense. “It’s not true that …. But if it WERE true….”

  • @jonathangenkin3357
    @jonathangenkin3357 3 місяці тому

    to the point . recognition . phallable . love that .

  • @lorigulfnoldor2162
    @lorigulfnoldor2162 3 місяці тому

    I don't understand even a quarter of it (sorry!)< but you speaking about "difference between subject and knowledge" made me think how mathematical paradoxes akin to Goedel's theorem show, inside the mathematics, "the difference between mathematics and mathematician". Goedel found a way to formulate in math-speak the utterance "there is no sequence of sentences that is a mathematically sound proof for that statement". Now, if this statement was false, then there would be a sequence of sentences that would "prove" it as true, but false thing cannot be proven true. So it is not false, then. And all the statements are either false or true. So it must be true. But then, if it IS true, then, if we take this sequence of sentences, from "Now, if this.." to "it must be true", it still is NOT mathematically sound proof of it being true. So, basically, mathematics does not recognize this as being true, yet a mathematiCIAN does! And the funniest thing is, well, you can axiomatize this statement to make it "true without proof", but then a new statement arises, that, yet again, mathematICS does not recognize, but a mathematiCIAN does!

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 3 місяці тому

      Way to rock the logic out! I think lines of inquiry like the one you are exploring here would have wildly intrigued Lacan, especially at this point in his thought.

    • @lorigulfnoldor2162
      @lorigulfnoldor2162 3 місяці тому

      @lecturesonlacan All of this subject of inquiry also reminds me of a joke about jokes themselves: A logic teacher says to the audience: - Every statement is either true or false. There is none that is not true or false, and no third option, either! A voice from the auditorium replies: - Yeah, of course, SURE! Talking about nature of the jokes, "This statement is false" from liar's paradox is non-sensical, but "yeah, pal, I am a liar, you know, i ALWAYS lie, even THIS VERY STATEMENT is a false...!" - is very much sensical in an alive, non-computery, non-autistic_spectrum way.

  • @paparatzz7531
    @paparatzz7531 3 місяці тому

    Vampirism is probably an allusion to cannibalism, no?

    • @lecturesonlacan
      @lecturesonlacan 3 місяці тому

      I wasn’t thinking that, but great connection!