
The Drive, Episode 1
Lectures on Lacan Podcast
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The Drive as Montage
To recover one's libido at the level of the drive is to recover an unreal because pre-real, pre-existent mythical experience of life in the midst of death. The prevailing image that Lacan provides of the drive looks a lot like an arrow that is shot, but that strangely also returns back to the shooter. All right, do you all see this diagram? Somebody, somebody shout out that you can see this. I'm going to make sure, all right, Christopher, thank you.
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