
The Drive, Episode 3
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Pulsation Business
All the things I've asked you to read for this series, the texts that we're working with are all happening at about the same time, 1960 about 1965. So it's no coincidence that you're going to see a recurring theme here of pulsation. Pulsation of the rim through which the being that is the unconscious and resides just shy of it must flow. The pulsation of a rim that opens closes. This is what I want you to think of whenever you hear Lacan talking about pulsation. Mouth, anus, eye, ear, but lots of parts of the body open in order to close. Through that door in moments of pulsation where the rim opens and then
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