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#133: Post-anarchism, Psychoanalysis, Politics and Society (ft. Duane Rousselle)

It's Not Just In Your Head

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The Relationship Between the Real and Revolutionary Discourse

I was quite surprised when I discovered the definition that LeCon gave, and I've never seen anybody else highlight this. There's a sense in which LeCon was on the one hand suspicious of revolutionary discourse. Quite suspicious of it. Yet on the other hand, he said that there is one counterpoint to the discourse of mastery within which some revolutionary sentiments are expressed. Those of the students who were in the streets in 1968, which LeCon confronted,. sorry, who confronted LeCon. And the psychoanalyst discourse. LeCon's idea was that the analyst discourse is the only counterpoint to discourses of revolution that are beholden to the masters discourse. The Analyst discourse by making the

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