Lacan's 'objet a' | Todd McGowan

[@dealwithitsloth]

Fantastic!

[@TheDangerousMaybe]

Todd explaining the concept of objet petit a? Yes, please!

[@joethelionjoethelion]

Hi Todd, I’ve been following many of your lectures often. I repeat them as the information is so vital and your understanding of the subject matter is notable. My question is this… At times you talk about enjoying the impossibility, the frustration, the upset the lack and you mention it several times in your lectures , is this a mindset that one must develop? In other words, enjoying lack, frustration, anger, these emotions are conditioned in us usually in a mindless response. I know this connects with jouissance , this enjoyment, this extra enjoyment that fills in the gap. Wondering what your response is to my inquiry? Keep up the great work!

[@addammadd]

14:22 you know when you mention a stain, it makes me think literally of the function of staining in microscopy which simultaneously distorts the image but in so doing brings the necessary contrast to actually view it.

[@cameronrobson1218]

todd mcgowan's insights about how lacan was an asshole for writing the ecrits are so valuable, wish i'd heard of him years ago

[@nightoftheworld]

10:35 so in the young Christian dating scene-could the “chaperone” (the one who stands as barrier to fuller relationship) be considered objet a? The chaperone generating desire through staining/marking what could otherwise be the “perfect” date.. young lovers desiring each other through the bar of the chaperone.

[@anthony19723]

Yes, I think you are on to something interesting. See Henry Kreps Fetish An Erotics of Culture describing the chaperone as objet a. The figure is always at work in English literature from Sheridan to Austen to Forster's A Room with a View (1908) Charlotte Bartlett always blocking and yet making the desired object Lucy Honeychurch appear better. The chaperone is also often challenged, which makes the narrative more enticing.

[@JohnnyMinotaur]

Re: Todd's answer about the singularity of the objet a in film. He tries to hang on to 'singularity' by tying it to the viewer that the film 'constructs' but I think that's a misuse of 'singularity'. Whereas what he's talking about (the potential to encounter the formal frame of the objet a given the viewer position that the film constructs) would seem better described as *particular.* ... & so ... I think that Calum's opening question was never really answered.

[@blablabla63923]

and that floating sardine can also sees me all the same, a blind gaze that is some kind of nothing

[@dextercool]

If only Lacan had been so pellucid.

[@julianholman7379]

Good stuff, but at the moment I am wishing that the examples would come from the media and geopolitics ! rather than a cannibal movie I am never going to watch

[@parkinglotsofhell]

Bible did it first: “Now we see as in a mirror dimly then Face-to-face”

[@christianrokicki]

is he implying that lacan's anus was too short at the start? is that 'it' or da ding ? fort-da ding dong? please help me to grasp it. this is the second time i hear that joke and still no cigar...

[@christianrokicki]

@Chaim Mendel you sound like the head honcho. or could be if you play yr cards right.

[@OH-pc5jx]

the short session, rather than a variable psychoanalytic session, refers to a brief session of sexual intercourse, due to premature ejaculation

[@christianrokicki]

@@OH-pc5jx yeah but why tell the joke a second time (probably more...elsewhere: circles where i have no entree?) when it is such a lumpen joke (pure drek) to begin with? i feel it must be a parapraxis of some sort or an example of repetition compulsion which is caused by a psychic split... and then to compound the sorrow his elaboration of the concept in question is utterly unsatisfactory. motoric sophistry has no place in the clinic. and i am tired which doesn't make life any easier as well... so it comes at a bad time.

[@clydechristopher7797]

​​@@christianrokicki 😂 Holy shit. Is this an actual adult?

[@clydechristopher7797]

If you're the person in that profile pic then your comment is a huge breakthrough for the study of Benjamin buttons disease.