Thank you.

Immensely valuable and rarelly applied by medical professionals

I’m learning about Lacanian thought through your lectures for the first time. So apologies if this is addressed later on. But where does psychopathy fall within the tripartite structural model? Your point about diagnosis being rendered by patient suffering more so than divergence from the norm may suggest that psychopaths may be abnormal yet not pathologic in that they do not affectively or at least in any conscious guilt ridden way suffer the consequences of their symptoms. Unless we understand the legal repercussions and ostracization to be the suffering in this case…thanks for any input!

Amazing!

watched it for the third time.... things are a bit clear now.. though it is not about any "thing"😀

Enjoyed

Thank you for sharing Gaztambide’s insightful work!

i was loooking in the comment for some interactive discussion on some key points that have been discussed above..... unfortunately didn't find one

what is the connection between psychosis and homossexualism? there's a video where a guy says that the psychotic has to comfront their own homossexuality.

Great question, as you say, a kind of tension, about "does Lacan have enough of a sociogeny" in his work.

Thank you - one of the best Lacanian videos I’ve seen

Isn’t it clear that superego and jouissance are kind of part of each other in the sense that the guilt you talked about experiencing when you enjoy is actually a part of the jouisssance itself - it’s what makes it jouissance rather than simple enjoyment - and then that guilt reinforces the superego .. jouissance has to push up against the superego to sustain itself, which then feeds into a strengthening of the superego. Does this make sense or not?! So then I guess there’s the question of the superego experiencing jouissance at our suffering, or something! This is bending my mind slightly.

This is fascinating because the big other appears in other settings such in my case as a professional in my own work field.

5:00 book reference. 9:00 diagnosis thru speech

When I have an inkling about irrational reactions of self othering in the workplace these ideas are now giving structural formula to the apparent obstacle in the others self defense in everyday relations. The question is how to do so outside the clinic effect better outcomes and relationships.

“5 moments .. “ .. wanting to make reference to your own book perhaps!

Thank you 😍

Thanks Derek. Can't wait to watch this!

Is there anything in psychoanalysis that could be read as a tacit endorsement of colonialism? Genuine question. Edit: question was perhaps answered at about the half-way point of the video.

Mikhael Bakhtin's Superaddressee.

Great interview

he a lil baddie highkey 🌶

Thank you . great presentation /lecture

Thank you so much for this lecture! I had to read Lacan's seminar for my research, and your explanation helped me a lot!

This is really fantastic.

I feel Lacan didn't go far enough. The unconscious isn't just structured like a language..it is language. It talks to itself using our mother tongue but inaudible to our inner ear. Psychosis is that inner language's volume being raised, which is why audio hallucinations are much more common than visual. I base this on meth psychosis..as the psychosis comes on i can hear the inner unconscious language slowly creep up in volume from zero..like a radio. At peak psychosis the voice is LOUD. As the psychosis fades the volume fades. But the quality of the voice never changes. Its alwaystalking non-stop in very clear syllables without any emotion like a robot, like god or like a computer. I think that voice is always talking to me but I just can't hear it...and that's my unconscious...literally speaking in English, not jus structured like a language. It is language!! Any thoughts Derek!!?? Have you ever had psychosis from stimulants? Its very revealing into the working of the human mind. Even more than lsd, dmt etc which don't reveal anything scientific perse.

It is an interesting discussion that reminds me of Jean Laplanche’s critic writing about some of Freud’s ideas. Does it reflect some postmodern attitudes towards the deconstruction of our fascination with meta-narratives and authorities in classical psychoanalysis? Is it our desire to re-configure our identity and society in different ways?

Your videos are exceptionally lucidly argued and well-presented, bringing Lacan's brilliant formulations of the unconscious and 'psychopathology' (which I prefer to call "the differing forms of universal human suffering'" ) to light with exemplary clarity. Thanks you for your ongoing work - I'm sure many others appreciate it as much as I do.

Fabulous lecture, Derek. Thank you for referencing Ruth Stein in a Lacanian presentation. Her article on the “perverse pact” has been invaluable for me in these encounters.

Unfortunately this recording is very quiet! Thank you for all of your vids :)))

I have my own theory about fantasy and law.

I stumbled upon these lectures by accident. I am making notes. This resonated so much and explained so much about the way I have been most of my life. Thank you.

amazing job professor thanks for making such useful content for us

I suggest you educate yourself way more about phenomenology if you think it naively assumes immediate access to the world. There's an entire genetic phenomenology.

8:15😁

My mother passed away on 7th November 2023. She gave birth to me on 4th November 1987. I will be celebrating both birth and death around that date from now on. This reminds of Buddha who was very sad remembering the death of a neighbour boy the same night when his son Rahula was born. I discovered Lacan during the very last year of the life of my mother. She died of CKD (critical Kidney Disease). I was already reading Buddha’s teachings on suffering, it’s origin in our mind etc. They say similar things. To passify myself or my mother I am not sure. She wanted to live more. I was the center of her world. She wanted to see me with the job of a professor. I remember few scenes vaguely from my teenage, 2003..2005 those years. Summer nights in West Bengal suburbs, a mosquito net. And hands touching me. I was lying between my mother and father. My father’s body aroused me. I was a teenager. I lived in a joint family. My cousin, three years older than me, would often come down from upstairs, he would make a light knock on the door where I would be pretending to sleep in between my parents. Then I would respond to the knocks, I arise and go out. Then I would make sex with my cousin in the next room. Around those years, some night or a few nights I would discover my mother’s hands touching me. I wouldn’t like it, as I see in retrospect as a homosexual man, that I was already aroused by the body of my father by then. You probably see where I am speaking from.

What about the Freudian idea that fear of death is a substitution for the fear of castration?

s1/s2

Zizeks ontological definition is stated by Lacan in Seminar 16 section Inconsistency of the Other

Interesting moment when we realize that for Thakur, the politics of emancipation around colonizer-colonized antagonism is connected to the Freudian-Lacanian concept of the speaking and desiring subject as not just a lacking subject, but the lack is what MAKES it a subject (Thakur’s reading). What it is IS the lack irself-- it is what brings forth the subject.

I love this guy he’s like a mad scientist

Was 7:00 an intrusion of the real, like le coupure ontologique dans la réalité? 😂

fantastic! would love more of these comparisons

4:36

Thank You So Much ! I like your style of teaching

I came to laugh at all the ridiculous postmodern verbiage but then I walked away understanding this better.

I genuinely can’t thank you enough for these videos

There is more frame than image in that paintingto the left. I wonder what Lachan would say about that.

Is this responsible for psychopathy because my experience with them is they lack the symbolic order..everything is the real. Their mother is just the woman who gave birth to them. Their friendships are transactional. They lack emotions that require a third-perspective. Isn't this all about failing the mirror stage? If not, what are the consequences? Do some infants get it backwards and think the mirror is the real world 'behind the glass'? And what if an infant never sees their reflection until after the first 2-3 years? Finally..and this is my favorite...do you think we can further the symbolic order in our cats and dogs by engaging with them and the mirror as kittens/puppies? Might this be why domestic animals are smarter?!?!

Excellent ending