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The Drive, Episode 2

Lectures on Lacan Podcast

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The Different Types of Sublimation

The drive is a way to de-sublimate in a sense. Opening the hole doesn't allow you to replace lollipop with breast. It instead opens it up so that you can get down into something before the breast, this pure undivided libidinal experience. That's what the drive accesses and that's why I use the phrase 'de-sublimation' Dr. Jason Childs: "I see the distinction between sublimatory processes that would result in a lollipop for a breast versus money for shit"

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