
Seminar XI, Episode 1
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Mirror Is a Dangerous Place to Be
The desire that we have for another person is always an embodied experience. The mirror is a dangerous place to be because it fuels our all to human willingness to desire as others. In this pre-edible imaginary triangle where in order to get our desires for the maternal figure met, we start thinking and imagining as we think they think and imagine. We're usually quite wrong. Enter the paternal figure. Where you effectively square the triangle that was there before. This is our know of the father. Here is also castration. It's no coincidence that those were the first words uttered on the telephone. Watson, come here, I want you. Edison said into the device. But look at all
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