
Seminar XI, Episode 1
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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What Happens When You're Homeless via Language?
The neurotic is fundamentally split between their existence in the grammatical symbolic world of language and order and their embodied experience. When they accept that prohibition, what they accept is that they are now torn between two worlds. A world in which the first here and now has now become a then and there. Relative to the new here and now, the here and now of language of society, of order. This is the split subject, this is that dollar sign looking thing that in Laconian terms we use to symbolize the neurotic subject. And so I was like, oh my God. So I had to deprogram that whole thing too.
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