Lectures on Lacan Podcast Seminar XI, Episode 3
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Mar 6, 2023 This podcast delves into Lacan's Seminar XI, exploring psychoanalysis as a science, the minimum irreducible distance in human desire, split subjectivity and the know of the father in psychosis, oral and anal drives in potty training and language acquisition, and the components of the split subject.
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Cause of Human Desire
- The cause of human desire is always the experience of lack, symbolized as little a in Lacanian algebra.
- This cause of desire is always repressed and ultimately a lost cause to be found, not sought.
Minimum Gap Creates Desire
- To have two entities, there must be a minimum irreducible difference or gap, the third element that Lacan calls objectality.
- This third element represents the slit or rupture that embodies the experience of lack causing desire.
Split Subjectivity Explained
- The split subject is torn between their embodied bio-animalistic self and their socio-linguistic self.
- This split is maintained by a minimum irreducible gap, preventing a return to wholeness once admitted into the symbolic.