

Lectures on Lacan Podcast
Prof. Dr. Samuel McCormick
Lectures and commentaries on key texts in Lacanian psychoanalysis lecturesonlacan.substack.com
Episodes
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Jan 30, 2023 • 1h 15min
Anxiety, Episode 11
This podcast explores Lacanian psychoanalysis and the concept of desire. It discusses the role of demand, need, and the split subject in maintaining distinction between the self and the socio-linguistified self. The speakers also delve into the relationship between desire, anxiety, and castration. Additionally, they discuss the relationship between psychosis and anxiety, as well as the connection between anxiety, truth, and authenticity.

Jan 23, 2023 • 1h 14min
Anxiety, Episode 10
Exploring mother-daughter anxieties through the metaphor of a tuna can. The child's dependence and shift to destructive desire. Lacan's perspective on the equivalence of anxiety and orgasm. Exploring desire's embodiment and different manifestations. Reflection and anxiety as eyes and mirrors. Merging ideas into a single image. Progression from pure need to mobilizing desire through fantasy. Perversion, castration, and the name of the father.

Jan 16, 2023 • 1h 29min
Anxiety, Episode 9
The podcast discusses engaging with Lacanian psychology, the missing eye in a statue as a sign of presence, the relationship between object A and the real, the reflective nature of the human eye, the role of the analyst in psychoanalysis, the goal of increasing awareness in Lacanian analysis, and the relationship between the placenta and desire.

Jan 9, 2023 • 1h 12min
Anxiety, Episode 8
This podcast explores Lacanian psychoanalysis, discussing topics such as the relationship between negative phi and phallic shoosons, the concept of faulted and split subjectivity, the horror of anxiety, the role of 'little a' in Lacan's theory, the impact of the paternal function on desire and anxiety, time in Lacanian thought, and the connection between demand, desire, and the law of desire.

Jan 2, 2023 • 1h 42min
Anxiety, Episode 7
Here’s the seventh episode in our podcast on Anxiety (Seminar X), along with the formula we workshopped in the original session. If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

Dec 26, 2022 • 59min
Anxiety, Episode 6
Here’s the sixth episode in our podcast on anxiety, along with some of the diagram work we did in the original session:If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

Dec 19, 2022 • 1h 46min
Anxiety, Episode 5
Here’s the fifth episode in our podcast on anxiety, along with two corresponding diagrams, both developed in the original session:If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

Dec 12, 2022 • 1h 23min
Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 4
Here’s the fourth installment in our podcast series on anxiety — along with some of the diagram work we did in the original session:If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

Dec 5, 2022 • 1h 29min
Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 3
Here’s episode 3 in our new series on a n x i e t y .And here are the diagrams we developed in the original session:If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com

Nov 28, 2022 • 1h 29min
Anxiety (Seminar X), Episode 2
Here’s the second episode in our new podcast series on anxiety! And here’s in image of the diagram we developed in the original session:If you’d like to purchase the complete series on Anxiety (Seminar X), including 18+ hours of video-recorded lectures and all of the diagrams, formulas, and mathemes we developed along the way, you can do so here: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lecturesonlacan.substack.com