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The Drive, Episode 3

Lectures on Lacan Podcast

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Position of the Unconscious

The way the unconscious works is sometimes it's hard as rock. Other times it's the pulsative walls of a cave, certain type of cave in particular. Position can also mean an attitude to take a position toward something. Retorical theory from antiquity forward has been about the art of attitude adjustment. Attitudes are incipient acts. To persuade somebody is not to force them to do something. That's compulsion. You will march or you will die.

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