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Thank you!

Hi Derek, love your lectures - a very pithy (and witty) exposition of Lacan! Wonderful resources to which I find myself often referring people to. Would you be so kind as to share the source of the Rodriguez quote? It strikes me as a very elegant account of the analytic work.

thank you very much!

Sharp young man :)

Thanks for this series of videos, I found them very useful

Peter Hook moment omg

Love the way you explain things it actually helps a lot in terms of understanding these kind of subjects

Great video! I’ve become very interested in Lacan through my reading of Deleuze and Guattaris Anti-Oedipus and didn’t want to box myself into one perspective on psychoanalysis(as D&Gs perspective is that of harsh critique). I was wondering if you had given any time to the work of Anti-Oedipus or Deleuze and Guattari more generally? Thanks!

what about the idea of moving between structures/positions (as in Kleinian thought?) Does Lacan have this?

I agree that all the investigations are coming to melancholia from different vantage points. Grigg's overbearing presence of the traumatic object results in the loss of a beloved (perhaps empty) space (i.e. Freud's lost object)-- an empty space that was used to define a part of one's existential experience. Desiring that one remains unlocated on a symbolic plane by not receiving, detaching, being off grid, is the claiming of this space within the twilight scenes. Thank you for posting your lines of thought here. It resonates with me very much personally.

You remind me of Ted Kaczynski.

the last argument is actually really good

I think a lot of these teachings are not very scientific and should be moved to religious studies

Hello Sir, Is the sinthome a pre-psychotic or post-psychotic logic? What is Lacan's structure for after the rings have fallen apart? Is it also the sinthome? Thank you in advance.

Thank you.

Immensely valuable and rarelly applied by medical professionals

I’m learning about Lacanian thought through your lectures for the first time. So apologies if this is addressed later on. But where does psychopathy fall within the tripartite structural model? Your point about diagnosis being rendered by patient suffering more so than divergence from the norm may suggest that psychopaths may be abnormal yet not pathologic in that they do not affectively or at least in any conscious guilt ridden way suffer the consequences of their symptoms. Unless we understand the legal repercussions and ostracization to be the suffering in this case…thanks for any input!

Amazing!

watched it for the third time.... things are a bit clear now.. though it is not about any "thing"😀

Enjoyed

Thank you for sharing Gaztambide’s insightful work!

i was loooking in the comment for some interactive discussion on some key points that have been discussed above..... unfortunately didn't find one

what is the connection between psychosis and homossexualism? there's a video where a guy says that the psychotic has to comfront their own homossexuality.

Great question, as you say, a kind of tension, about "does Lacan have enough of a sociogeny" in his work.

Thank you - one of the best Lacanian videos I’ve seen

Isn’t it clear that superego and jouissance are kind of part of each other in the sense that the guilt you talked about experiencing when you enjoy is actually a part of the jouisssance itself - it’s what makes it jouissance rather than simple enjoyment - and then that guilt reinforces the superego .. jouissance has to push up against the superego to sustain itself, which then feeds into a strengthening of the superego. Does this make sense or not?! So then I guess there’s the question of the superego experiencing jouissance at our suffering, or something! This is bending my mind slightly.

This is fascinating because the big other appears in other settings such in my case as a professional in my own work field.

5:00 book reference. 9:00 diagnosis thru speech

When I have an inkling about irrational reactions of self othering in the workplace these ideas are now giving structural formula to the apparent obstacle in the others self defense in everyday relations. The question is how to do so outside the clinic effect better outcomes and relationships.

“5 moments .. “ .. wanting to make reference to your own book perhaps!

Thank you 😍

Thanks Derek. Can't wait to watch this!

Is there anything in psychoanalysis that could be read as a tacit endorsement of colonialism? Genuine question. Edit: question was perhaps answered at about the half-way point of the video.

Mikhael Bakhtin's Superaddressee.

Great interview

he a lil baddie highkey 🌶

Thank you . great presentation /lecture

Thank you so much for this lecture! I had to read Lacan's seminar for my research, and your explanation helped me a lot!

This is really fantastic.

I feel Lacan didn't go far enough. The unconscious isn't just structured like a language..it is language. It talks to itself using our mother tongue but inaudible to our inner ear. Psychosis is that inner language's volume being raised, which is why audio hallucinations are much more common than visual. I base this on meth psychosis..as the psychosis comes on i can hear the inner unconscious language slowly creep up in volume from zero..like a radio. At peak psychosis the voice is LOUD. As the psychosis fades the volume fades. But the quality of the voice never changes. Its alwaystalking non-stop in very clear syllables without any emotion like a robot, like god or like a computer. I think that voice is always talking to me but I just can't hear it...and that's my unconscious...literally speaking in English, not jus structured like a language. It is language!! Any thoughts Derek!!?? Have you ever had psychosis from stimulants? Its very revealing into the working of the human mind. Even more than lsd, dmt etc which don't reveal anything scientific perse.

It is an interesting discussion that reminds me of Jean Laplanche’s critic writing about some of Freud’s ideas. Does it reflect some postmodern attitudes towards the deconstruction of our fascination with meta-narratives and authorities in classical psychoanalysis? Is it our desire to re-configure our identity and society in different ways?

Your videos are exceptionally lucidly argued and well-presented, bringing Lacan's brilliant formulations of the unconscious and 'psychopathology' (which I prefer to call "the differing forms of universal human suffering'" ) to light with exemplary clarity. Thanks you for your ongoing work - I'm sure many others appreciate it as much as I do.

Fabulous lecture, Derek. Thank you for referencing Ruth Stein in a Lacanian presentation. Her article on the “perverse pact” has been invaluable for me in these encounters.

Unfortunately this recording is very quiet! Thank you for all of your vids :)))

I have my own theory about fantasy and law.

I stumbled upon these lectures by accident. I am making notes. This resonated so much and explained so much about the way I have been most of my life. Thank you.

amazing job professor thanks for making such useful content for us

I suggest you educate yourself way more about phenomenology if you think it naively assumes immediate access to the world. There's an entire genetic phenomenology.

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My mother passed away on 7th November 2023. She gave birth to me on 4th November 1987. I will be celebrating both birth and death around that date from now on. This reminds of Buddha who was very sad remembering the death of a neighbour boy the same night when his son Rahula was born. I discovered Lacan during the very last year of the life of my mother. She died of CKD (critical Kidney Disease). I was already reading Buddha’s teachings on suffering, it’s origin in our mind etc. They say similar things. To passify myself or my mother I am not sure. She wanted to live more. I was the center of her world. She wanted to see me with the job of a professor. I remember few scenes vaguely from my teenage, 2003..2005 those years. Summer nights in West Bengal suburbs, a mosquito net. And hands touching me. I was lying between my mother and father. My father’s body aroused me. I was a teenager. I lived in a joint family. My cousin, three years older than me, would often come down from upstairs, he would make a light knock on the door where I would be pretending to sleep in between my parents. Then I would respond to the knocks, I arise and go out. Then I would make sex with my cousin in the next room. Around those years, some night or a few nights I would discover my mother’s hands touching me. I wouldn’t like it, as I see in retrospect as a homosexual man, that I was already aroused by the body of my father by then. You probably see where I am speaking from.