Between Desire and Drive

In this clip from Coffee and Concepts I offer a brief overview of the development of the idea of Death Drive via reference to Freud, Lacan, Zizek and McGowan. Coffee and Concepts is a monthly, interactive group, where I introduce a key concept and then we discuss it. Coffee and Concepts is accessible via my Patreon.
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[@craigcolbourn8351]

Really helpful insight! Love your simplicity brother, even on complicated topics.

[@DamonD_Absences]

Oh man, my child has been playing these “absence-presence” games quite a bit lately. Makes me wonder how to handle them. One very cute one is when she tells me “you’re my not-best friend” right before bursting into a giggle-fit. 3 is a fun age, I love watching her play around with negations and creating her own little linguistic and psychological games.

[@mitchellthomas2686]

How does this differ to the three levels of the ego, the superego and the id ? Or is it the same?

[@fosterch11]

Ed Pluth's book Signifiers and Acts posits a Lacanian theory that the Real can be tied to the Other supposed-to-know to create a mostly autonomous subject. Would this real not be a stand-in for the unconscious drive?

[@dondraper4806]

Bedazzled is awesome! "cocaiinaa!!"

[@pinchofganja]

To what extent is there a parallel between the Lacanian Drive and the Jungian shadow? How might the archetype of the heroes journey be a chaotic encounter with lack? How fair is it to say that the mystical death experiences of psychedelic trips are a confluence of the biological and the symbolic?

[@davidwaggoner3157]

(puts on movie nerd hat) In Bedazzled, Elizabeth Hurley is the Devil, and Brandon Fraser is the one who sells his soul to her for seven wishes.

[@TheOrthodoxHeretic]

Ha! I pride myself in always butchering my pop cultural references! Hopefully I didn’t get it completely wrong! From what I remember, the protagonist keeps trying to give the woman he desires what she wants, and it keeps backfiring.

[@davidwaggoner3157]

@@TheOrthodoxHeretic Your references are great! (The thing about the movie I remember most is both how truly smart and delightfully dumb the bits are ... being a popular and skilled basketball player , but with a very very small .... package ... , having loads of money .... but because of being a drug lord. It really is a perfect movie for explaining some of your points!)

[@aboubacaramine8689]

If Jim Jefferies was your therapist..