
Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 3
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Difference Between Thinking and Being in Philosophy
For Lacan, there's a different split. If you want to play with the old philosophical one, it would be the split between having and being. This becomes very apparent when we start thinking about the phallus. We each have a grammatical self but we also are fundamentally human animals. Everything is on the side of embodiment, the enunciating subject and biomateriality for Lacan. Speech has as much to do with language use as it does with tongue movement.
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