Lectures on Lacan Podcast The Logic of Fantasy (Seminar XIV), Episode 4
Jun 12, 2023
The podcast explores topics such as repetition, the act, and sublimation in Lacanian psychoanalysis. It discusses logical origins, repression, and the structure of the unconscious. The theory of the unconscious and the role of repetition in analysis are also explored. The limitations of containers and the structure of language are discussed, along with the concept of the real and its connection to psychosis. The significance of the internal eight symbol in analyzing the transition from demand to drive is highlighted. The retroactive nature of repetition and its connection to fantasy are also pondered.
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Logical Origins Are Retroactive
- Lacan treats origins as logical retroactive points, not chronological beginnings.
- Meaning and repression are discovered retroactively when later events reframe earlier moments.
Pool Party Example Of Return
- McCormick uses the potty-training and pool-pushing stories to show how a repressed signifier resurfaces.
- The later pool event retroactively gives meaning to the childhood trauma, producing the symptom.
Repetition Grounds The Freudian Object
- Lacan locates repetition as the irreducible starting point for the Freudian object: the unconscious.
- The analyst must accept the big Other's incompleteness to work with this repetitive structure.