Lacan and Phenomenology (5): More on Lacan, Merleau-Ponty and the Gaze...

We continue our discussion of how Lacan both separates himself and yet utilizes ideas from Merleau-Ponty's 'The Visible and the Invisible' stressing how his influential notion of the gaze is fundamentally psychoanalytic and distinct from other conceptualizations drawing on the idea of an all-seeing position on the world. Having stressed that for Lacan the gaze is on the side of the object as opposed to the subject, we highlight also the role of a narcissistic economy in the realm of visibility. In closing we note Lacan's idea that while in the waking state there is an elision of the gaze, in dreams, there is, a showing.

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Great video! Please go more in depth on Lacan's relation to Heidegger, especially his notion of Logos and Alethea

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Do you have any videos talking about how someone actually *becomes* a Lacanian psychoanalyst? That would be a wonderful video topic, if you ever get the chance to tackle it 😊 Thanks for all your wonderful work!