
From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI), Episode 2
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Relationship Between Being and Being
L'accanean psychoanalysis is not that between being and appearing as you would often see in the philosophical tradition, but between being and having. The structure of human being occurs here at the level of a renunciation of enjoyment atop experiences of loss and lack symbolized by the minus V and A. Surplus enjoyment is occurring after the renunciation of enjoyment. It's an imaginary identification, but it tries to recreate a perceived as lost experience of wholeness.
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