Lectures on Lacan Podcast

Topics discussed include the effects of discourse, the distinction between psychoanalytic and mathematical discourse, the impact of knowledge on the subject, the relationship between enjoyment and symbolic alienation, the concept of the other signifier and its connection to knowledge, and the eschatological nature of Christianity and its relation to desires

Explore the obscure consequences of discourse in Lacanian psychoanalysis. Discuss Lacan's shift from language to materiality and the importance of lack in discourse. Examine the role of logic in psychoanalysis and its connection to knowledge, truth, and enjoyment. Contrast modern science with psychoanalysis and the role of universities in shaping ideology. Explore the coupling of science and capitalism and its connection to Lacan's discourses.

Here’s the third episode in our new podcast series on From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI). Click here to access the full text. 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

Here’s the second episode in our new podcast series on From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI), along with some of our diagram work from the original session. The second image below will prove especially important as the series unfolds. Click here to access the full text of Seminar XVI. 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

Here’s the first episode in our new podcast series on Lacan’s pivotal 1968-1969 seminar From an Other to the other (Seminar XVI). Because there are 21 episodes in this series, with more close readings and careful commentaries than ever before, I’ve decided to release two episodes each week: one on Mondays and another on Thursdays.You may also wish to have the full text of Seminar XVI in front of you for this podcast. Click here to access the full text.Once this series is complete, I’ll add all of our materials on Seminar XVI — video recordings, complete diagrams, and the like — to the Lectures on Lacan Archive. 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

This podcast explores Lacanian psychoanalysis and the concept of fundamental fantasy. It delves into the connection between the fundamental fantasy and language, the sexual subject and its implications, the relationship between signifiers and death, Julie Sontz and the concept of embodied enjoyment, the myth of Eve and the dialectic of the sexual act, the fantasy of enjoyment in male-female relationships, and explores movement and the role of the analyst.

The podcast explores the concept of sublimation and its manifestation in interpersonal dynamics. It discusses the fear of intense oneness with the vagina and delves into the role of fantasy in Lacanian theory. The chapter also explores the concept of castration and its connection to the prohibition of incest and the experience of lack. It examines the role of the fallows in prohibiting auto eroticism and explores Lacan's concept of the dialectic between being and having in male fantasies.

Exploring Lacan's ideas, the podcast discusses the belief in the existence of the other, the fantasy of an all-knowing figure, the invention of probability, spatial topology in psychoanalysis, the concept of symptoms and awareness, repetition and resonance, and the existence of little a.

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.

Topics discussed in this episode include Lacan's exploration of the second structural lack and the concept of the barred other, the delusion of transparent consciousness and its connection to the discovery of the unconscious, Lacan's analysis of 'cogito ergo sum' and its implications on the concept of the self, the complex relationship between alienation, the unconscious, J.A., and castration, the importance of repetition and retroaction in Seminar 14, the connection between logic and fantasy, and the role of the big Other and the paternal function in a child's life.