Lectures on Lacan Podcast

This podcast episode discusses the concept of the 'big Other' in Lacanian psychoanalysis, explores the relationship between the empty set and containment in set theory, and delves into Lacan's perspective on the empty set and its connection to the Other. It also explores the relationship between S1, S2, and the big Other, discusses the iterations of the empty set over time, and explores Lacanian mythology and the retroactive power of the word. Finally, it delves into the process of gaining signifiers of loss and the concept of immortality through language and culture.

The podcast delves into Lacan's Seminar XVI, exploring the use of 'UN' and the concept of 'ones', the movement from one to another, Lacan's big Other, the power of positive thinking, the concept of the 'one' in Lacanian theory, and the future career path of asking large language models questions.

The podcast explores the role of the analyst and the concept of the loop in psychoanalysis. It discusses the relationship between knowledge and the unconscious, and the emergence of the object little A as the cause of desire. The shift from self-knowledge to a desire for enjoyment is examined, along with the desire for an other barred subject. The progression from death consciousness to intersubjective love is analyzed, highlighting the incurable truth at the end of analysis.

The podcast delves into Lacan's concept of enjoyment and its exclusion from analytic experience, explores the systems of the subject and the Bard other, discusses the Fibonacci sequence in relation to veiny structures, delves into the concept of Joui-Sants and the signifying process, investigates the missing signifier and its connection to the absence of Jewish aunts, explores the clinical structure of neuroses and the role of the phallic signifier, and examines the constellations of knowledge and enjoyment in understanding neurosis.

This episode of the podcast explores Lacan's concept of the unconscious as the sexual, the desire to know and forgetting, types of love: narcissistic and anaclitic, autonomy and heteronomy in Kantian thought, Lacan's concept of satisfaction and surplus enjoyment, the vacuole and constitutive definitional ambiguity, and loss, lack, and reciprocal relationships.

Exploring the structure of the subject in relation to the signifier and the role of the Big Other. The paradox of the Big Other and signifiers in language. Otherness and the signifier in analytic practice, emphasizing the importance of lost objects. The historical meaning of the word 'barbarian' and its connection to the symbol of the bar. Traces left by the parental figure and the complexities of sexual enjoyment.

This podcast explores the insights of set theory, examines treatment at the level of identification in neurotics, discusses articulatory faults in mathematics and psychoanalysis, explores perversion and the lack in the structure of the Big Other, and analyzes the concept of the number one in relation to the symbolic field.

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.

Exploring the role of Objay Offit in Lacanian psychoanalysis, understanding Objay Off as a residue, the interplay of perversion, religion, and the belief in the other, the multifunctionality of OJI, sublimation, Das Ding, and the work of art, symbolism in art and the concept of the object a, the analogy of bells to explain the concept of drive.

This podcast explores Lacan's Seminar XVI, focusing on topics such as the drive and psychoanalytic knowledge, the relation between drives and enjoyment, the forbidden zone and field of enjoyment, the relationship between enjoyment and the symbolic, Lacan's questions on the edge and forbidden zone of enjoyment, and the relationship between sublimation and sexual enjoyment.