
From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI), Episode 3
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Paradox of Surplus Enjoyment
With each renunciation or prohibition of enjoyment, a figure of that enjoyment vanishes. Surplus enjoyment occurs when we have found something else symbolized in our diagram for today as little I next to little a,. A plus that we can insert into one of them holes that are left behind when we renounce certain enjoyments. Remember the Proto-Indo-European root pele meaning to fill that gives us surplus as well as supply. The imaginary object that is the phallus is the original supply if you will, that the surplus of surplus enjoyment repeats.
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