
Anxiety, Episode 6
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Sadistic Wants Us to Squirm
The real is what you actually hear. The symbolic is the meaning or the content that comes through my voice. There's the linguistic part of what you're hearing me say, which points to the symbolic. And then there's the paralinguistic, which pointed to the real. That echo started with an iterative moment of speech, which is how language works and it disintegrated into the grain of the voice. Here though, back to the sadistic. They want to see us squirm. They wantto see us anxious. Your anxiety signals your castration, which in turn connects to the law. Don't forget, law and desire go hand in hand.
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