Lectures on Lacan Podcast

Explore Lacanian psychoanalysis and its connection to philosophy and the university. Delve into the discourse of the master and surplus value, the expropriation of knowledge, and the role of technology companies as philosophers. Discover the parallels between tourism and the master-slave relationship. Examine repetitive necessity, taste of 'jusonts', and the joy of reading Hegel's work.

The podcast explores Lacanian psychoanalysis, discussing concepts such as the four discourses, the topology of language, and the role of objay. They delve into the thirst for meaning and its connection to the knowledge process. The concept of the big barred other and its relation to jouissance is explored. They discuss Lacan's interest in nature documentaries and the complexity of secondary literature. The absence of a sexual act and the role of signifiers are challenged. The measure of shifting distance and the structure of the big barred other are also discussed.

Topics discussed include the significance of names in psychoanalysis, the power of unary traits in family dynamics, the expansion of signifiers and the limitations of language in representing identity. Also explored is the concept of Jouissance and its various expressions.

Explore Lacan's positionality as a teacher and the foundational definition of the signifier. Delve into Lacan's use of set theory and the evolution of language and meaning. Analyze Lacan's concept of language and the signifier, and explore the concept of the big Other through academic programs. Discover the struggles with core concepts in philosophy, biology, and mathematics.

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.