Are You Just Looking for the Piece of You That You Think You Have Lost?

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Lacan didn't really have great things to say about this, because he pasically said, this is the nurses dictionario. Were you just looking for the piece of yourself that you fanda, fantasise that you have lost? And again, like lacant, hey think that's a bad kind of a narcisistic endeavor that doesn't really get you anywhere. Ah, but then he had this other version, which contemporary theorists have distinguished from what stalked about. They have called what i just talked about, romance, like what we understand when we think about romance in the conventional, conventional sense. So basicallyou're just trying to feel your lack in a narciistic

Neuroscience has given us great insights into how our brains work. But there is still room for purely humanistic disciplines to help us think through our thoughts and emotions, not to mention the meaning of our lives. Mari Ruti is a professor of English literature, with expertise in critical theory, gender studies, and psychoanalysis, especially the work of French theorist Jacques Lacan. We talk about the psychological drive that is motivated by what Lacan calls “lack,” which is related to “desire.” We use this as a way to think about such essential human experiences as mourning, creativity, and love. (We don’t talk about love enough here on the podcast.)

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Mari Ruti received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Harvard University. She is currently a Distinguished Professor of critical theory and gender and sexuality studies at the University of Toronto. She is the co-editor of the Psychoanalytic Horizons book series for Bloomsbury.

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