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.
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.
What would make Lacan revolutionary is precisely his notion that the unconscious is not an "inner" thing at all, but outside and between individuals. (But that was not his revolution to make, instead it was Marx's.) Lacan does offer an explanation as to why the unconscious may appear to be "inner", though.
it's not only language, it's also perception. Thats why he talks about jouissance. The world is made of language and is produced by pulsations of mental energy.
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.
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.
What would make Lacan revolutionary is precisely his notion that the unconscious is not an "inner" thing at all, but outside and between individuals. (But that was not his revolution to make, instead it was Marx's.) Lacan does offer an explanation as to why the unconscious may appear to be "inner", though.
@@anonymousfigure37 That's already been stated...our unconscious is simply a collection of other people's speech.
it's not only language, it's also perception. Thats why he talks about jouissance. The world is made of language and is produced by pulsations of mental energy.
Unfortunately this recording is very quiet! Thank you for all of your vids :)))