From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI), Episode 14

Lacan's references to set theory and the importance of articulatory possibilities. The concept of the whole versus its parts and its connection to desire. The absence of a sexual act and the transformative effect of the psychoanalytic act. The transformative power of language, truth, and knowledge. Lacanian concepts of pleasure, phallus, and castration. The illusion of a division between truth and knowledge. Lacanian notions of structure and the desire to know. The movement of desire, identification, and demand in psychoanalysis.